1 edit | Still no word... and still no word yet on the bit-rate of a HD movie with quality maxed out...hoepfully time will tell....and soon, at that.
edit: update! »gizmodo.com/5093323/the-tech-spe···treaming
looks like it'll have 2 bitrates: 2.6 meg and 3.8 meg.
»blog.netflix.com/2008/11/encodin···ing.html
further info.
Sadly, only stereo, but they're working on a way around that.
Supposedly, according to them, the titles (with maximum bandwidth) will look better than SD, but not as good as Blu-Ray....obviously we all already knew this...I just wonder how close to Blu-Ray it is? 25%? 50%?
hopefully, one day, they'll offer the ability to stream at even higher bitrates---I'm sure the picture would look fairly good if it was 5 megabits or higher. |
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 BF69Premium
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Camden, TN | said by Fox McCloud:and still no word yet on the bit-rate of a HD movie with quality maxed out...hoepfully time will tell....and soon, at that. edit: update! » gizmodo.com/5093323/the-tech-spe···treaminglooks like it'll have 2 bitrates: 2.6 meg and 3.8 meg. » blog.netflix.com/2008/11/encodin···ing.htmlfurther info. Sadly, only stereo, but they're working on a way around that. Supposedly, according to them, the titles (with maximum bandwidth) will look better than SD, but not as good as Blu-Ray....obviously we all already knew this...I just wonder how close to Blu-Ray it is? 25%? 50%? Blu-ray has a bitrate of 40 Mbps. Most SD content on various sites is streamed at 1.2 which they claim is near SD quailty. Hardly. SD qualty is closer to 2.1 Mbps. So yes at 2.6 Mbps - 3.8 Mbps should look better than say watching the same movie on Tv in SD, but no where near HD. |
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 jgkoltPremium
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Lakewood, OH | it also depends on which codecs and compression schemes are being used. It doesnt matter as much about how much data is being pumped out (different codecs use difference bandwidth). |
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| said by jgkolt:it also depends on which codecs and compression schemes are being used. It doesnt matter as much about how much data is being pumped out (different codecs use difference bandwidth). yup, just like a 192 kilobit AAC audio file will be much higher quality than a 192 kilobit MP3 audio file (I've heard that a 128 kilobit AAC is equal to 192 kilobit MP3, but can't confirm this).
If I recall, Blu-Ray still uses MPEG-2; if someone use h.264/MPEG-4, you could get the same quality at a much lower bit-rate.
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