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.
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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.
