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stereodave70




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PostLink    Posted: Sat Nov 05, 2011 12:36 am    Post subject: Compression in streaming movies Reply with quote


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I guess it is to be expected..., but does anyone else notice it as obvious?

Bought a movie one night that had the free movie coupon from VUDU.. PS3 had the app for VUDU...downloaded it...we decided to watch "The Expendables"....big movie...had guests over...so, it was kinda a "show off" night. The whole movie I felt like it wasn't turned up????...I looked back at the rack to turn it up, but I was already WAY over reference. I've noticed this a couple times while streaming, always when guests are here. I guess I just need to stick to Blu Ray when showing off???

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PostLink    Posted: Sat Nov 05, 2011 6:02 pm    Post subject: Re: Compression in streaming movies Reply with quote

stereodave70 wrote:
I guess it is to be expected..., but does anyone else notice it as obvious?

Bought a movie one night that had the free movie coupon from VUDU.. PS3 had the app for VUDU...downloaded it...we decided to watch "The Expendables"....big movie...had guests over...so, it was kinda a "show off" night. The whole movie I felt like it wasn't turned up????...I looked back at the rack to turn it up, but I was already WAY over reference. I've noticed this a couple times while streaming, always when guests are here. I guess I just need to stick to Blu Ray when showing off???


Yep, no doubt about it, for us "A/Vphiles" the convenience of streaming video comes at a price and if one has a quality system, compared to Blu-Ray, streaming is always going to be disappointing, it is a convenience, nothing more.
Until the SPs eventually provide enough bandwidth to allow downloadable consistent top-quality video, adding channels and collecting revenue for those additional channels, will always take priority.
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PostLink    Posted: Sun Nov 06, 2011 12:42 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Make sure the VUDU app doesn't have a volume control, and if it does set it to maximum AFTER you turn down your AVR. This had to be done for the iPad.
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PostLink    Posted: Sun Nov 06, 2011 2:07 pm    Post subject: Re: Compression in streaming movies Reply with quote

Ron W wrote:
Yep, no doubt about it, for us "A/Vphiles" the convenience of streaming video comes at a price and if one has a quality system, compared to Blu-Ray, streaming is always going to be disappointing, it is a convenience, nothing more.
Until the SPs eventually provide enough bandwidth to allow downloadable consistent top-quality video, adding channels and collecting revenue for those additional channels, will always take priority.


For what it's worth, I don't think we'll ever see service providers streaming video that doesn't have extra compression (as compared to Blu-ray). When bandwidth is increased, they will simply look to add more channels or 'value add' content of some sort since most people don't care. Most people would rather have more channels/features than less better quality channels.

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