My dad almost beat me last month because our bandwith limit is 60GB/month and me coming home from college and I used 92GB of bandwith in about 15 days. Yeah, I appreciate what they're doing, but I'll stick to renting BluRays for my safety. :)
Instant streaming 1080P movies? exsqueeze me? thats a winner right there
Bluray001
Instant streaming 1080p movies from a 480i source with poor video and audio quality? No thanks. Exactly.. and the fact that some people have monthly cap limits on downloads, plus less than 50% of people have high speed = fail. Hard copies win.
If it works the way they say it will that is impressive, but Blu-ray will still be better and will not be replaced anytime soon. Also I wonder what the audio will be like on these movies. I doubt you will get HD lossless audio from it like you do on blu-ray.
I seriously doubt it's going to be the same quality as BD copies lol.
that's what they are claiming though right?
No. All they claimed was 1080p, which is just a resolution. It's pretty clear it's going to be poor quality 1080p with low bitrates. I don't understand this stuff since I don't know alot about the technicals but how can one 1080p look different from another 1080p? I don't understand "higher quality 1080p"
No. All they claimed was 1080p, which is just a resolution. It's pretty clear it's going to be poor quality 1080p with low bitrates. I don't understand this stuff since I don't know alot about the technicals but how can one 1080p look different from another 1080p? I don't understand "higher quality 1080p"
Instant streaming 1080P movies? exsqueeze me? thats a winner right there
chikenfriedrice
lol the irony here is epic. MOVIES..get it....blue-ray? Well anyways it's still needed, games are only getting bigger and the digital download won't be taking over anytime soon, just look at a game like ff13 it'll probably be in 3 to 4 disk on 360 wjile only one on ps3, well as long as square makes it a long game lol
No. All they claimed was 1080p, which is just a resolution. It's pretty clear it's going to be poor quality 1080p with low bitrates. I don't understand this stuff since I don't know alot about the technicals but how can one 1080p look different from another 1080p? I don't understand "higher quality 1080p" Just like there are copies of BD movies that look much better than other movies. There is no way they can stream a 1080p movie without compression that stacks up against hard copies of BD that are usually 25-50GB.
People that like physical copies People that don't have any internet connection People that don't have a ridiculously fast internet connection People that like taking films on the go with them People that like watching special features
I could go on. Theres no doubt this is a good service, but in no way is it a replacement for Bluray. Also, I imagine an extremely fast internet connection will be required for this.
Instant streaming 1080P movies? exsqueeze me? thats a winner right there
lol the irony here is epic. MOVIES..get it....blue-ray? Well anyways it's still needed, games are only getting bigger and the digital download won't be taking over anytime soon, just look at a game like ff13 it'll probably be in 3 to 4 disk on 360 wjile only one on ps3, well as long as square makes it a long game lol plus must 360 owners only have 20 gigs sets unless ofcourse ms is just planning an overpriced rental service, then you might as well just keep using red box or ewatching regular tv(most poeple canrecords tv programs already)
1080p is just a resolution. It means that the video is 1900x1080 pixels. Bitrate is about the amount of detail that goes into encoding the video. The bigger the bitrate, the better the video will look. But with bigger bitrates, you end up with a bigger file, which is why Blu-ray discs are 50GBs big. When you stream a 1080p video, you need to keep the bitrate down at a low level so that you can stream the video smoothly. This means while the video itself is 1900x1080 pixels big, the actual bitrate is low which means the picture will have poor video quality. These video qualitity flaws are actually magnified because it is a 1080p video, whereas a 480p video would actually "look" better since the resolution is smaller and would mask the imperfections in the video. That's just video... we havent' even started talking about audio yet.
Instant streaming 1080P movies? exsqueeze me? thats a winner right there
Instant streaming 1080p movies from a 480i source with poor video and audio quality? No thanks.Yeah because as history has shown the source tech, won't improve. This is the major competition for blu ray in the future and the reason MS didn't include HD DvD in the 360. People complained about changing discs for MGS 4 on 360, but in the future a disc won't even be needed, period. Human beings historicallly have gone out of there way to make life plusher and less work. It seems inevitable that DD will be the norm. And I like hard copies also, but ask yourself, do you have a hard copy of every song on your ipod, zune, mp3?
i'm going to keep blu-ray because i don't have any services (netflix), it takes to long to watch things in HD. things here, youtube take to long to stream if it's in high def. i'm going to get a ps3 for blu-ray.
Think of it this way. Blu-ray = Watching Transformers in an iMax movie theater. 1080p stream = Watching Bootleg Transformers taken by some guy with a video camera
People that like physical copies People that don't have any internet connection People that don't have a ridiculously fast internet connection People that like taking films on the go with them People that like watching special features
I could go on. Theres no doubt this is a good service, but in no way is it a replacement for Bluray. Also, I imagine an extremely fast internet connection will be required for this.
[QUOTE="death919"][QUOTE="Bluray001"] No. All they claimed was 1080p, which is just a resolution. It's pretty clear it's going to be poor quality 1080p with low bitrates.chikenfriedrice
I don't understand this stuff since I don't know alot about the technicals but how can one 1080p look different from another 1080p? I don't understand "higher quality 1080p"
me too
look at old 1080 p TV's and new one's they're on another level now.
I'm not saying this is going to be the standard in 6 months, but as the tech quality increases it will become the standard. People are lazy it's a fact. No changing disc in a portable music player? Awesome! Sure, in the future people will still want to eject discs for movies and games.
Instant streaming 1080P movies? exsqueeze me? thats a winner right there
chikenfriedrice
Sorry but its false. The only way to get true 1080p output is through a Blu-Ray Player with a Blu-Ray disc and a HDMI or Component cable no longer than 6 meters.
Think of it this way. Blu-ray = Watching Transformers in an iMax movie theater. 1080p stream = Watching Bootleg Transformers taken by some guy with a video cameraBluray001
Nothing personal, but from your screen name and the way you are shooting this down, do you have a stake in Blu ray? Sony? I agree with the current tech Blu ray is a better experience now. But as technology evolves, as it constantly does, you really think people won't opt for theasier less work of no discs? I like hard copies mostly because I dig the cases and art work. But with humanity's history of laziness DD seems like the inevitable norm.
Instant streaming 1080P movies? exsqueeze me? thats a winner right there
Sorry but its false. The only way to get true 1080p output is through a Blu-Ray Player with a Blu-Ray disc and a HDMI or Component cable no longer than 6 meters.And that will never change? Tech doesn't evolve? Please. Blu Ray has seen it's future competition in DD.
[QUOTE="Bluray001"]Think of it this way. Blu-ray = Watching Transformers in an iMax movie theater. 1080p stream = Watching Bootleg Transformers taken by some guy with a video cameracainetao11
Nothing personal, but from your screen name and the way you are shooting this down, do you have a stake in Blu ray? Sony? I agree with the current tech Blu ray is a better experience now. But as technology evolves, as it constantly does, you really think people won't opt for theasier less work of no discs? I like hard copies mostly because I dig the cases and art work. But with humanity's history of laziness DD seems like the inevitable norm. Digital Distribution isn't easier... It's actually very difficult. It includes configuring IP addresses, opening ports, etc.... vs popping a disc into a player and pressing play. Then there's the buffering issue and internet speed variables.
[QUOTE="cainetao11"][QUOTE="Bluray001"]Think of it this way. Blu-ray = Watching Transformers in an iMax movie theater. 1080p stream = Watching Bootleg Transformers taken by some guy with a video cameraBluray001
Nothing personal, but from your screen name and the way you are shooting this down, do you have a stake in Blu ray? Sony? I agree with the current tech Blu ray is a better experience now. But as technology evolves, as it constantly does, you really think people won't opt for theasier less work of no discs? I like hard copies mostly because I dig the cases and art work. But with humanity's history of laziness DD seems like the inevitable norm. Digital Distribution isn't easier... It's actually very difficult. It includes configuring IP addresses, opening ports, etc.... vs popping a disc into a player and pressing play. Then there's the buffering issue and internet speed variables.And as I stated do you really think in the time to come these difficulties won't be streamlined or eliminated for the user? Come on, it's the obvious future of home entertainment. The tech requirements will be improved as all tech improves. Blu ray as DVD as the CD will dwindle in usage in the future. It will have it's users loving it as Vinyl still does. But for mainstream, it's where we're heading.
streaming 1080p = fail. you would have to have a superfast connection, and it still wouldn't look as good as the file in its full, uncompressed format.
Instant streaming 1080P movies? exsqueeze me? thats a winner right there
Sorry but its false. The only way to get true 1080p output is through a Blu-Ray Player with a Blu-Ray disc and a HDMI or Component cable no longer than 6 meters.And that will never change? Tech doesn't evolve? Please. Blu Ray has seen it's future competition in DD.DD is alot diferent that streaming.
I have said it since HD DVD and Blu-ray were introduced. Movies on disk will be obsolete in 3-4 years.
kuu2
Agreed. And I love hard copies to. But it's the art work, not the plastic disc. As I said before, if you need hard copies, do you have a hard copy of all the music on your ipod, zune, mp3?
[QUOTE="cainetao11"][QUOTE="djsifer01"]Sorry but its false. The only way to get true 1080p output is through a Blu-Ray Player with a Blu-Ray disc and a HDMI or Component cable no longer than 6 meters.djsifer01
And that will never change? Tech doesn't evolve? Please. Blu Ray has seen it's future competition in DD.DD is alot diferent that streaming.Sorry, my typo. Still think discs, movies music, and games are going by by.
Instant streaming 1080P movies? exsqueeze me? thats a winner right there
chikenfriedrice
Downloadable and streaming movies are for suckers since they're pretty much pure DRM. People who collect movies, like me, will never give up our discs.
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