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On 4/27/2010 10:18 AM, Invisible wrote:
> scott wrote:
>
>> Of course there is the SlingBox too:
>>
>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slingbox
>
> Again, that's all very nice. But unless you have insane levels of
> bandwidth available, it's not going to work.
>
> There's nothing theoretically difficult about sending video data over
> the Internet. The problem is the bandwidth.
Meh, I had a 1Mbit DSL connection for a long time, and my wife could be
watching Youtube videos of kids playing with cats, and I could watch a
netflix film at very decent quality w/o interruption for buffering. Of
course now, with my cable internet bandwidth is no longer an issue... ;)
--
~Mike
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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.
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~Mike
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On 4/27/2010 11:23 AM, nemesis wrote:
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> LOL
>
> seems like Andrew still got some 30 years ahead to fully get to grips
> with the real world...
>
Why doesn't my Atari 2600 do HD?
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~Mike
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On 4/27/2010 4:12 PM, John VanSickle wrote:
> Government regulators, for whom being safe is generally more important
> than being right, had a major role in the determination of the standard.
> The standard had to allow for broadcast within a strictly-defined
> frequency band, and this limit was chosen based on technology that is
> now ready for deployment to your local museum, because these decisions
> were made years ago.
>
> If I am remembering things correctly, there was even some insistence
> that the signal be displayable by sets designed for the old broadcast
> standard. If that sounds thinking-impaired, well, that's the FCC for you.
kind of like how NTSC color was kludged on top of the existing black and
white broadcast signal in the name of backwards compatibility?
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~Mike
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>> Again, that's all very nice. But unless you have insane levels of
>> bandwidth available, it's not going to work.
>>
>> There's nothing theoretically difficult about sending video data over
>> the Internet. The problem is the bandwidth.
>
>
> Meh, I had a 1Mbit DSL connection for a long time, and my wife could be
> watching Youtube videos of kids playing with cats, and I could watch a
> netflix film at very decent quality w/o interruption for buffering. Of
> course now, with my cable internet bandwidth is no longer an issue... ;)
It is utterly baffling to me that this is possible. In my experience,
YouTube on its own is very unreliable. At certain times of day it's just
unusuable, while at other times it's just about stable. (I guess this is
probably due more to server load than end-user bandwidth though.)
Even when it works properly, the quality is nowhere near TV quality.
Same for BBC iPlayer, 4 on demand and all those others. As soon as you
make it go fullscreen, it looks horrifyingly blurry and covered in
compression artifacts. You certainly wouldn't bother paying money to
watch a *movie* at such low quality...
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> My dad wired it himself. ;-)
>
> (As in, he literally chiselled out chunks of wall and then plastered it
> over again.)
Before they came up with cavity wall insulation you could just drop your
cables down between the inner and outer brickwork, drill a hole through the
wall where you want the socket, use the old bent-tape-measure trick to grab
the cable and wire it up to a socket. Job done.
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> Even when it works properly, the quality is nowhere near TV quality. Same
> for BBC iPlayer, 4 on demand and all those others. As soon as you make it
> go fullscreen, it looks horrifyingly blurry and covered in compression
> artifacts.
Are you comparing the two signals the same way? Note that if you feed
normal SDTV into a 22" monitor and sit 30 cm away then it looks *really* bad
too.
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scott wrote:
>> Even when it works properly, the quality is nowhere near TV quality.
>> Same for BBC iPlayer, 4 on demand and all those others. As soon as you
>> make it go fullscreen, it looks horrifyingly blurry and covered in
>> compression artifacts.
>
> Are you comparing the two signals the same way? Note that if you feed
> normal SDTV into a 22" monitor and sit 30 cm away then it looks *really*
> bad too.
Well, DVDs are SD aren't they? I quite often watch DVDs on my PC...
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> Well, DVDs are SD aren't they? I quite often watch DVDs on my PC...
DVDs use about 5x the bitrate of SDTV.
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And lo On Wed, 28 Apr 2010 10:08:55 +0200, Invisible <voi### [at] dev null> did
spake thusly:
>>> Hard to believe but apparently true. Something fishy in our brain. Jan
>>> Koenderink, who was giving the talk, is trying to figure out why.
>> Perhaps something similar to line perception where we overestimate
>> acute angles and underestimate obtuse ones.
>
> My mother believes she can sing. Even though she's actually about a
> fifth to a third flat. The result sounds truly *horrible*! You'd think
> she could hear the difference, but no...
>
> She also claims to be unable to tell the difference between major and
> minor chords, which is impressive given the vast, world-alering
> difference between the two.
My father will happily sing and tap along half-a-beat out to music that he
likes. Drives me mad.
--
Phil Cook
--
I once tried to be apathetic, but I just couldn't be bothered
http://flipc.blogspot.com
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