come on guys, we know even though its 1080p video, the bit rate is gonna be so low that it will totally negate the benefits of the increased resolution. Disc format still provides the best experience
Right.. it's gonna look like SD.. you are totally right LOL.
Just another nail in Blu-ray coffin. Everyone is going 1080p online now and this will be in 18 countries. The quality will be just as same as Blu-ray and improve even further. Every year there's less and less reason to own anything optical.
Um, just cuz something is 1080p does not mean it is the same quality as blu-ray. It wouldn't surprise me one bit if it looks no better than a standard DVD. The bitrate will be so friggen low that it will look like garbage. Blu-Ray is not dead. It's not going to be dead. Get used to it. Physical media is, and will always, be king.
Obviously, you are speaking as someone who has no clue how actual Xbox Live movies and shows looked like in 720p. With Silverlight 3 engine that offers superb clean 1080p content with 4-6mbps bitrate at streaming 1080p will look pretty much the same or so close to Blu-ray that it will be negligible.
Seriously some of you people are talking about this as if the difference is so huge between Blu-ray and other 1080p sources that it's like SD vs HD or that it's unusable. I guarantee you that 99% of people will not see difference. Hell they can't see the difference when I play them Netflix HD vs Blu-ray.
Come on, get your heads out of Sony's asses please and maybe you should actaully see things and how they look before making idiotic statements like you did.
I doubt you have a decent movie rig if you can't see the difference between netflix hd and bluray. Most 1080p HD that is highly compressed with h264 is about 10Mb average and up to 40Mb peak. I have a 1080p copy of Ben Hur that has been compressed to garbage to make it fit on a DVD (Ben Hur is what, 3 hours long?). It doesn't look HD because the bitrate is so low. I'm not saying netflix hd doesn't look good, because it looks great. But unless the impending broadband crisis is averted and we all get 20Mb connections Bluray isn't going anywhere.
The next gen of optical media? You might be right.
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Omar @ Jun 1st 2009 4:57PM
come on guys, we know even though its 1080p video, the bit rate is gonna be so low that it will totally negate the benefits of the increased resolution. Disc format still provides the best experience
maty @ Jun 1st 2009 5:11PM
Oh because we all have blu-ray players...
(note: I do, and HD DVD too, but thats not my point).
Bozster @ Jun 1st 2009 5:31PM
Right.. it's gonna look like SD.. you are totally right LOL.
Just another nail in Blu-ray coffin. Everyone is going 1080p online now and this will be in 18 countries. The quality will be just as same as Blu-ray and improve even further. Every year there's less and less reason to own anything optical.
The future is here.
Nick @ Jun 1st 2009 7:31PM
Um, just cuz something is 1080p does not mean it is the same quality as blu-ray. It wouldn't surprise me one bit if it looks no better than a standard DVD. The bitrate will be so friggen low that it will look like garbage. Blu-Ray is not dead. It's not going to be dead. Get used to it. Physical media is, and will always, be king.
Bozster @ Jun 1st 2009 7:52PM
@Nick
Obviously, you are speaking as someone who has no clue how actual Xbox Live movies and shows looked like in 720p. With Silverlight 3 engine that offers superb clean 1080p content with 4-6mbps bitrate at streaming 1080p will look pretty much the same or so close to Blu-ray that it will be negligible.
Seriously some of you people are talking about this as if the difference is so huge between Blu-ray and other 1080p sources that it's like SD vs HD or that it's unusable. I guarantee you that 99% of people will not see difference. Hell they can't see the difference when I play them Netflix HD vs Blu-ray.
Come on, get your heads out of Sony's asses please and maybe you should actaully see things and how they look before making idiotic statements like you did.
eng050599 @ Jun 2nd 2009 10:48AM
And you need an 8Mb/s connection for the 1080p service. This means that a large portion of consumers will not be able to have this service.
Bradford @ Jun 24th 2009 12:41AM
@Bozster
I doubt you have a decent movie rig if you can't see the difference between netflix hd and bluray. Most 1080p HD that is highly compressed with h264 is about 10Mb average and up to 40Mb peak. I have a 1080p copy of Ben Hur that has been compressed to garbage to make it fit on a DVD (Ben Hur is what, 3 hours long?). It doesn't look HD because the bitrate is so low. I'm not saying netflix hd doesn't look good, because it looks great. But unless the impending broadband crisis is averted and we all get 20Mb connections Bluray isn't going anywhere.
The next gen of optical media? You might be right.