 Morac
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Re: is HD confirmed for the PS3 ???? said by toby:HD really isn't HD, I have the Roko too, HD just means slightly better picture quality, High Def. I don't know about the Roku box, but on TiVo, Netflix streams HD (720p), granted it's nowhere near the quality you'd get from blu-ray, but it is technically HD.
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 tobyTroy Mcclure
join:2001-11-13
Seattle, WA
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| The uncompressed results might be at the resolution and frame rate, but the device (roku/tivo) is making half of the information up. It is similar to upconverting dvd players, the information just isn't there to produce that resolution.
Remember when DirecTv used to transmit HD channels and now they are HD-Lite, the same thing. |
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Morac
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| said by toby:The uncompressed results might be at the resolution and frame rate, but the device (roku/tivo) is making half of the information up. It is similar to upconverting dvd players, the information just isn't there to produce that resolution. There's nothing in the HD standard that says HD has to be a specific bit rate, only the resolution and frame rate are specified. So for all intents and purposes Netflix is HD (as was DirecTv and is Comcast's HD).
There's nothing to "make up" since the video is already at the right resolution, there's simply less detail in the picture. It's like comparing cable or OTA HD to blu-ray. Both are HD, but blu-ray looks better.
As for Netflix, it can come close to cable and OTA HD quality do to the fact that it uses VC-1AP which is a more advanced codec than MPEG-2 and also that they optimize their video encodes.
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