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Blu-Ray Streaming
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Do any of the on-line film services such as Netflix and Lovefilm offer Blu-Ray films that can be streamed? Anyone use these and is the quality as good as having the disc? Thanks |
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Netflix offers what they call super HD which looks very good, don't know if what they stream is technically the same spec as Bluray, ie bitrate/resolution etc.
Much of their content is accompanied by 5.1 audio too, no HD audio, possibility this could come later. Try it out, you get a months free trial. |
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Anyone use these and is the quality as good as having the disc? Thanks https://support.netflix.com/en/node/8731 |
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At a guess it's similar to Iplayer in HD. ie 720p25 1280 x 720 25fps. Anything higher would not be viable. Blu-ray 1080p24 runs at around 35Mbps. Not many of us are lucky enough to have broadband connections fast enough to maintain this sort of speed nor truly unlimited download limits.
A dual layer BD disc stores around 50GB of data. |
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Thanks for the replies. I'm getting Fibre broadband installed hence the question. No download / upload limit unlike my current broadband service.
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Thanks for the replies. I'm getting Fibre broadband installed hence the question. No download / upload limit unlike my current broadband service.
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What speed ?. Are you sure there's no limit ?. Most impose reasonable use limits and can throttle your speed at peak periods.
Plusnet Unlimited Fibre Broadband: http://www.plus.net/home-broadband/broadband-only/ |
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At a guess it's similar to Iplayer in HD. ie 720p25 1280 x 720 25fps. Anything higher would not be viable. Blu-ray 1080p24 runs at around 35Mbps. Not many of us are lucky enough to have broadband connections fast enough to maintain this sort of speed nor truly unlimited download limits.
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It's 1080p at 5 to 7Mbps. Says so here: https://signup.netflix.com/superhd
720p50 may well give better results. |
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I imagine it will only be 1080p25 (like some Freeview-HD content).
720p50 may well give better results. |
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Would that really matter for film content?
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Put it like this at that sort of bitrate it's not going to look as good as Blu-ray.
And no, streamed Netflix doesn't look as good as Blu-ray, but considering how it is delivered, i have to say their "1080p SuperHD" content is surprisingly impressive. |
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