How do they make it look HD on a website?

sHaK

26-10-2008

Pardon the "idiot's guide to..." talk, but how do they make it look High Defintion on a website? For example, this page on HMV.com plays a Rambo trailer for Blu-ray and the scenes shown during the trailer really do look like Blu-ray quality. How do they do that?

http://hmv.com/hmvweb/navigate.do?ct...-1&pGroupID=12

stvn758

26-10-2008

Err, it probably is HD.

PC monitors have been Hi Def long before TV got around to it.

ntlhellworld

26-10-2008

Originally Posted by sHaK:
“Pardon the "idiot's guide to..." talk, but how do they make it look High Defintion on a website? For example, this page on HMV.com plays a Rambo trailer for Blu-ray and the scenes shown during the trailer really do look like Blu-ray quality. How do they do that?

http://hmv.com/hmvweb/navigate.do?ct...-1&pGroupID=12”

That video is 320x180 or thereabouts and isn't very impressive at all really.

-Chris

The Lord Lucan

26-10-2008

Just very well encoded for it's size and obviously the master video they used was of a good quality. Probably sharpened it digitally too.

steveOooo

26-10-2008

http://www.apple.com/trailers/

there are loads of hd trailers on there.

the small sd h264 trailers look amazing becasue the master video apple used to encode with, was uncompressed 10bit video.

Orbitalzone

26-10-2008

well for a start it's a 2 inch video clip so it'll look pretty good with half decent encoding. Double its size to youtube size and it'll look half as good and so on.