POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.off-topic : Baffling : Re: Baffling Server Time
4 Sep 2024 23:18:49 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Baffling  
From: Mike Raiford
Date: 28 Apr 2010 09:37:15
Message: <4bd83a0b$1@news.povray.org>
On 4/27/2010 8:15 PM, Neeum Zawan wrote:
> On 04/27/10 07:57, Mike Raiford wrote:
>> Whats not to follow? They stream movies directly from the internet
>> (albeit at SD resolutions ..)
>
> 	Depends on how you define SD - I've seen movies through it that are
> definitely beyond DVD quality.
>

I think the resolution actually tops out somewhere around 720x480. Their 
STB only supports the SD mode, though it may be progressive scan, or it 
could be that you have a high enough bandwidth connection that you're 
getting less compression.

What I have seen does indeed rival DVD in terms of picture quality, though.

-- 
~Mike


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