 El QuintronCancel Culture Ambassador
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Netflix Super HD/Open ConnectI was curious if Teksavvy was looking into this... It's posted on the front page: » Netflix Starts Offering 'Super HD' and 3D Streams [166] commentsStates that who are on their CDN will be getting this. Cheers, EQ |
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2013-Jan-8 5:26 pm
edit: we already have it You can verify by looking at this page. » www.netflix.com/superhd |
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El QuintronCancel Culture Ambassador
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Awesome,
Thanks for letting me know,
cheers,
EQ |
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Are you peering with them, or do you just have the appliance? |
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Woot Woot  |
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Oh yeah Super HD looks really nice on a 27" monitor. I'm on Rogers directly but apparently they're also part of the Open Connect network. |
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What amount of traffic has been offloaded? |
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TheMG
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quote:
Netflix now offers Super HD streaming on the following devices:
Sony PlayStation 3
Apple TV with 1080p
Roku with 1080p
Nintendo Wii U
Windows 8
Blu-Ray Players and Smart TV's with existing Netflix 1080p support
More devices coming soon!
Does this mean no Windows 8 = no Super HD on PC??? |
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We have Apple TV attached to our Panasonic LED TV and when you watch shows like Dexter it looks spectacular. » store.apple.com/ca/brows ··· apple_tvList of supported devices: » support.netflix.com/en/n ··· sc.tab=0 |
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Tx
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2013-Jan-8 7:13 pm
Isn't apple tv just the same as any other device like Boxee? |
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I believe so.
I'm installing Win 8 right now, so I can try this out |
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Not working for me: » i.imgur.com/pVgtk.jpgCable in Kitchener. The Windows 8 requirement is a joke for the PC playback. edit: nevermind when I don't use unblock-us DNS it works. I guess no US Netflix in this new format  edit 2: some US VPN servers support it |
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2013-Jan-8 7:50 pm
Are you using Teksavvy's DNS servers? |
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Windows 8 is a polite way of saying "Windows" without have to deal with listing the previous versions.
If your on XP/Vista its a worthwhile upgrade. |
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said by Tx:Isn't apple tv just the same as any other device like Boxee? I've used WD TV and didn't like it too much. I find the navigation and easy of use on Apple TV to be better. Also I prefer Apple tv because of Airplay. I can stream content to it from my iPhone, iPad, or Macbook- so it makes things easier. » www.apple.com/airplay/ |
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Boxee/Boxee Box is different product than WDTV. |
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I don't understand this super HD. I thought they already had 1080p streaming.
And these names are getting annoying. HD, Full HD, Pure HD, Super HD, Ultra HD.
I guess I'll just call it Full Pure Super Ultra Deluxe HD.
I can't wait to hear what they'll call 4k/8k media. |
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2013-Jan-8 8:48 pm
said by Dones:I don't understand this super HD. I thought they already had 1080p streaming.
It's a marketing name. It is 1080p but lower compression over their existing 1080p streams. Their existing 1080p streams used a ridiculous amount of compression. |
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said by kragop:I've used WD TV and didn't like it too much. I find the navigation and easy of use on Apple TV to be better. Also I prefer Apple tv because of Airplay. I can stream content to it from my iPhone, iPad, or Macbook- so it makes things easier.
»www.apple.com/airplay/
After having both Boxee Box / WD TV and some other setups the WD firmware is completely god awful. So buggy it is pathetic. It is almost criminal that WD sells these devices with how bad they are. |
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said by kragop:I've used WD TV and didn't like it too much. I find the navigation and easy of use on Apple TV to be better. Also I prefer Apple tv because of Airplay. I can stream content to it from my iPhone, iPad, or Macbook- so it makes things easier.
»www.apple.com/airplay/
AppleTV is only good if you've got other Apple devices and are into the whole iTunes ecosystem... Many are not... |
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said by DarkStar33:Windows 8 is a polite way of saying "Windows" without have to deal with listing the previous versions.
If your on XP/Vista its a worthwhile upgrade.
Sounds ridiculous to me. Every other product and web site lists each respective Windows version as appropriate. |
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said by Tx:Isn't apple tv just the same as any other device like Boxee?
Unfortunately not, even though there are devices capable of playing 1080p / 5.1 sound content Netflix white lists devices which are provided 1080p / 5.1 sound content and they don't add every device to the white list; it is annoying. |
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said by HiVolt:AppleTV is only good if you've got other Apple devices and are into the whole iTunes ecosystem... Many are not...
Well especially with the stock firmware. In that configuration it leaves a lot to be desired compared to other media players. Personally I have no interest in having to hack the thing to make it usable. |
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What's weird is that didn't Netflix already have 1080p content? I see on my PS3 that stuff has Super HD, but then other movies are just HD.
Hunger Games is HD, and that's one of their newest movies. A ton of other movies say Super HD.
Does this mean that HD movies are now 1080i? I don't think its 720p, although companies do get away with calling that HD too.
When playing something on my PS3 it shows the following (press Select):
Medium/SD
High/SD
Medium/HD
High/HD
X-High/HD
Not sure if it's just me but I did notice there was less of a 'fuzzy' look to the picture. Very close to blu-ray like quality. |
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it works for ME using unblock -us -- the first time i clicked it didn't show, but when i went back a few minutes later -- it showed green. try again? |
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said by 34764170:said by DarkStar33:Windows 8 is a polite way of saying "Windows" without have to deal with listing the previous versions.
If your on XP/Vista its a worthwhile upgrade.
Sounds ridiculous to me. Every other product and web site lists each respective Windows version as appropriate. I agree. If it works on other versions of Windows, then they should list those as well. Otherwise, it leads to confusion as to whether or not older OS are supported, and they could lose potential subscribers (the kind who are not willing to upgrade to Win8). |
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2013-Jan-8 9:22 pm
monitors do this same BS. Say compatible with windows whatever version. Hell my dad got one years ago and asked why he picked that one and he said one reason said it was compatible with windows so he knew it would work. |
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said by dm1336:What's weird is that didn't Netflix already have 1080p content? I see on my PS3 that stuff has Super HD, but then other movies are just HD.
Hunger Games is HD, and that's one of their newest movies. A ton of other movies say Super HD.
Does this mean that HD movies are now 1080i? I don't think its 720p, although companies do get away with calling that HD too.
When playing something on my PS3 it shows the following (press Select):
Medium/SD
High/SD
Medium/HD
High/HD
X-High/HD
Not sure if it's just me but I did notice there was less of a 'fuzzy' look to the picture. Very close to blu-ray like quality.
As I stated with another post above. They already had 1080p streams. These are 1080p streams with lower compression. It's a marketing name at best which will just confuse people. You're not seeing Super HD yet for some content because it has not been re-encoded. They will be re-encoding further content as time goes on but they probably wanted to have at least a couple hundred titles at launch time. It is not "getting away" with anything. 720p is still HD. |
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2013-Jan-8 9:29 pm
The compression thing makes sense, thanks brad |
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so what videos are in super HD I can try? I looked at Dexter on the PC and it shows it maxes out at 3000 on the AV manger. |
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