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New way to watch HD on TV
It seams unnoticed in US that there is an other way to watch HD content. I have the KISS DP600 witch you can see he http://www.kiss-technology.com/ The player is a DIVX and as an important thing .wmv9 player. The drive in it is an ordinary dvd player drive. But the player is capable of outputting HD content up to 1920 X 1080 as far as the capabilities of the TV goes. At the moment i have a back projektion TV Sony KP-44PX. So, if you download or buy the Microsoft HD wmv-format DVD's which at the moment has a showcase on the internet for test and download, then you can burn these files (or DivX/XVID files if you prefer) on an ordinary DVD-R and put it in the player an watch the full definition on a HD TV or, on a SCART or component inlet on an ordinary(like mine) CRT TV, in an to the TV fitting downscaled resolution. Even on a CRT it looks amazing, and at first i was convinced that it made my TV able to show the full definiotion.(Sceptics tell me that it is not possible)-but i can see the difference between 1920 x 1080 and lower formats even on the CRT TV via SCART cable. Avoid using composit or super video cables as they do not deliver the best quality. SCART or component. SCART with the setting "RGB". Of course HDMI on a HDTV. There are all cables in the KISS KP600 box. So this enables us to an amazing amount of posibilities. A HD DVD could be converted to HD DivX, and burned on a DVD-R. After that it can be watched in FULL HD via the Kiss Player on a HDTV. Many free or minimal pay programmes are able to convert in full 1920 X 1080 with manual selection of the bitrate. If you have a HD video recorder you can take the full HD, edit, and burn it on a DVD-R and play it in full HD format, in either DivX-XVID-MPEG4 or WMV9. The player does not by now support H264 compression, which at the moment is the most compressed video file format. Furthermore the palayer is equiped with WIFI. You can stream from Windows or MAC-personal computer any content to the player. It even goes on the internet and are able to opdate itself.(I have an Intel MAC) It also has USB2. The streaming and USB2 has some limitations though. Afyter my own investigations it will stream up to 1343 KiloBits per second. That is sufficient for ordinary DivX movies which use a default bitrate about 900 Kilobits second, but insufficient to HD homemade or Microsoft HD wmv content which stream about 10.000 kilobits/sec. For that content you have to burn a DVD-R or DVD-RW. The player has frequent updates, and you have to suffer a bit. Mabee you insert a record and the player will not read the files or displays dark screen.;-) Then you have to use the main switch butten on the player and give it a new start. Then everything will come on fine.;-) The ability of the player is magnificent in both ordinary DVD play and HD play. You just have not seen a high quality picture like this player is able to deliver. It could be a tool to free the consumers of the format tyranny!;-))) Just thought you should now, as i think that you are the most interested. The danes are just not ready for this kind of information yet!;-))) Greets jens Denmark -- Sendt med Operas banebrydende postklient: http://www.opera.com/mail/ |
New way to watch HD on TV
I have a WMV-HD comercial disk (To the Limit) that plays thru my P4 based
system at 1080p (I too downloaded the 'clips' from Micrsoft's 'HD media showcase' website). The disk is full double layer (8.5 G), contains both 720p and 1080p WMVs, but the feature is only 38 minutes long. So, unless you're willing to apply a lot of compression to the program, it wouldn't be possible to put a 'feature length' (120 minute) movie on a regular 4.7 G DVD-R. TTUL... John "Lyrik" wrote in message ... It seams unnoticed in US that there is an other way to watch HD content. I have the KISS DP600 witch you can see he http://www.kiss-technology.com/ The player is a DIVX and as an important thing .wmv9 player. The drive in it is an ordinary dvd player drive. But the player is capable of outputting HD content up to 1920 X 1080 as far as the capabilities of the TV goes. At the moment i have a back projektion TV Sony KP-44PX. So, if you download or buy the Microsoft HD wmv-format DVD's which at the moment has a showcase on the internet for test and download, then you can burn these files (or DivX/XVID files if you prefer) on an ordinary DVD-R and put it in the player an watch the full definition on a HD TV or, on a SCART or component inlet on an ordinary(like mine) CRT TV, in an to the TV fitting downscaled resolution. Even on a CRT it looks amazing, and at first i was convinced that it made my TV able to show the full definiotion.(Sceptics tell me that it is not possible)-but i can see the difference between 1920 x 1080 and lower formats even on the CRT TV via SCART cable. Avoid using composit or super video cables as they do not deliver the best quality. SCART or component. SCART with the setting "RGB". Of course HDMI on a HDTV. There are all cables in the KISS KP600 box. So this enables us to an amazing amount of posibilities. A HD DVD could be converted to HD DivX, and burned on a DVD-R. After that it can be watched in FULL HD via the Kiss Player on a HDTV. Many free or minimal pay programmes are able to convert in full 1920 X 1080 with manual selection of the bitrate. If you have a HD video recorder you can take the full HD, edit, and burn it on a DVD-R and play it in full HD format, in either DivX-XVID-MPEG4 or WMV9. The player does not by now support H264 compression, which at the moment is the most compressed video file format. Furthermore the palayer is equiped with WIFI. You can stream from Windows or MAC-personal computer any content to the player. It even goes on the internet and are able to opdate itself.(I have an Intel MAC) It also has USB2. The streaming and USB2 has some limitations though. Afyter my own investigations it will stream up to 1343 KiloBits per second. That is sufficient for ordinary DivX movies which use a default bitrate about 900 Kilobits second, but insufficient to HD homemade or Microsoft HD wmv content which stream about 10.000 kilobits/sec. For that content you have to burn a DVD-R or DVD-RW. The player has frequent updates, and you have to suffer a bit. Mabee you insert a record and the player will not read the files or displays dark screen.;-) Then you have to use the main switch butten on the player and give it a new start. Then everything will come on fine.;-) The ability of the player is magnificent in both ordinary DVD play and HD play. You just have not seen a high quality picture like this player is able to deliver. It could be a tool to free the consumers of the format tyranny!;-))) Just thought you should now, as i think that you are the most interested. The danes are just not ready for this kind of information yet!;-))) Greets jens Denmark -- Sendt med Operas banebrydende postklient: http://www.opera.com/mail/ |
New way to watch HD on TV
Another thing, I checked out the 'Kiss' link and reviewed the specs. Nowhere
does it mention HDCP compatability (Hi-bandwidth Digital Copyright Protection). I don't know if this is an issue in Europe, but it sure is in the US. TTUL... John "Lyrik" wrote in message ... It seams unnoticed in US that there is an other way to watch HD content. I have the KISS DP600 witch you can see he http://www.kiss-technology.com/ The player is a DIVX and as an important thing .wmv9 player. The drive in it is an ordinary dvd player drive. But the player is capable of outputting HD content up to 1920 X 1080 as far as the capabilities of the TV goes. At the moment i have a back projektion TV Sony KP-44PX. So, if you download or buy the Microsoft HD wmv-format DVD's which at the moment has a showcase on the internet for test and download, then you can burn these files (or DivX/XVID files if you prefer) on an ordinary DVD-R and put it in the player an watch the full definition on a HD TV or, on a SCART or component inlet on an ordinary(like mine) CRT TV, in an to the TV fitting downscaled resolution. Even on a CRT it looks amazing, and at first i was convinced that it made my TV able to show the full definiotion.(Sceptics tell me that it is not possible)-but i can see the difference between 1920 x 1080 and lower formats even on the CRT TV via SCART cable. Avoid using composit or super video cables as they do not deliver the best quality. SCART or component. SCART with the setting "RGB". Of course HDMI on a HDTV. There are all cables in the KISS KP600 box. So this enables us to an amazing amount of posibilities. A HD DVD could be converted to HD DivX, and burned on a DVD-R. After that it can be watched in FULL HD via the Kiss Player on a HDTV. Many free or minimal pay programmes are able to convert in full 1920 X 1080 with manual selection of the bitrate. If you have a HD video recorder you can take the full HD, edit, and burn it on a DVD-R and play it in full HD format, in either DivX-XVID-MPEG4 or WMV9. The player does not by now support H264 compression, which at the moment is the most compressed video file format. Furthermore the palayer is equiped with WIFI. You can stream from Windows or MAC-personal computer any content to the player. It even goes on the internet and are able to opdate itself.(I have an Intel MAC) It also has USB2. The streaming and USB2 has some limitations though. Afyter my own investigations it will stream up to 1343 KiloBits per second. That is sufficient for ordinary DivX movies which use a default bitrate about 900 Kilobits second, but insufficient to HD homemade or Microsoft HD wmv content which stream about 10.000 kilobits/sec. For that content you have to burn a DVD-R or DVD-RW. The player has frequent updates, and you have to suffer a bit. Mabee you insert a record and the player will not read the files or displays dark screen.;-) Then you have to use the main switch butten on the player and give it a new start. Then everything will come on fine.;-) The ability of the player is magnificent in both ordinary DVD play and HD play. You just have not seen a high quality picture like this player is able to deliver. It could be a tool to free the consumers of the format tyranny!;-))) Just thought you should now, as i think that you are the most interested. The danes are just not ready for this kind of information yet!;-))) Greets jens Denmark -- Sendt med Operas banebrydende postklient: http://www.opera.com/mail/ |
New way to watch HD on TV
On Thu, 08 Feb 2007 06:54:23 -0800, SoCalCommie wrote:
Another thing, I checked out the 'Kiss' link and reviewed the specs. Nowhere does it mention HDCP compatability (Hi-bandwidth Digital Copyright Protection). I don't know if this is an issue in Europe, but it sure is in the US. And it only supports PAL/Secam. That's not used in the US.:-) -- Want the ultimate in free OTA SD/HDTV Recorder? http://mythtv.org http://mysettopbox.tv/knoppmyth.html Usenet alt.video.ptv.mythtv My server http://wesnewell.no-ip.com/cpu.php HD Tivo S3 compared http://wesnewell.no-ip.com/mythtivo.htm |
New way to watch HD on TV
No, according to the specs http://www.kiss-technology.com/?p=600en&v=users ,
it supports PAL / NTSC. TTUL... John "Wes Newell" wrote in message news:[email protected] On Thu, 08 Feb 2007 06:54:23 -0800, SoCalCommie wrote: Another thing, I checked out the 'Kiss' link and reviewed the specs. Nowhere does it mention HDCP compatability (Hi-bandwidth Digital Copyright Protection). I don't know if this is an issue in Europe, but it sure is in the US. And it only supports PAL/Secam. That's not used in the US.:-) -- Want the ultimate in free OTA SD/HDTV Recorder? http://mythtv.org http://mysettopbox.tv/knoppmyth.html Usenet alt.video.ptv.mythtv My server http://wesnewell.no-ip.com/cpu.php HD Tivo S3 compared http://wesnewell.no-ip.com/mythtivo.htm |
New way to watch HD on TV
On Feb 8, 9:46 am, "SoCalCommie" wrote:
I have a WMV-HD comercial disk (To the Limit) that plays thru my P4 based system at 1080p (I too downloaded the 'clips' from Micrsoft's 'HD media showcase' website). The disk is full double layer (8.5 G), contains both 720p and 1080p WMVs, but the feature is only 38 minutes long. So, unless you're willing to apply a lot of compression to the program, it wouldn't be possible to put a 'feature length' (120 minute) movie on a regular 4.7 G DVD-R. TTUL... John "Lyrik" wrote in message ... It seams unnoticed in US that there is an other way to watch HD content. I have the KISS DP600 witch you can see he http://www.kiss-technology.com/ The player is a DIVX and as an important thing .wmv9 player. The drive in it is an ordinary dvd player drive. But the player is capable of outputting HD content up to 1920 X 1080 as far as the capabilities of the TV goes. At the moment i have a back projektion TV Sony KP-44PX. So, if you download or buy the Microsoft HD wmv-format DVD's which at the moment has a showcase on the internet for test and download, then you can burn these files (or DivX/XVID files if you prefer) on an ordinary DVD-R and put it in the player an watch the full definition on a HD TV or, on a SCART or component inlet on an ordinary(like mine) CRT TV, in an to the TV fitting downscaled resolution. Even on a CRT it looks amazing, and at first i was convinced that it made my TV able to show the full definiotion.(Sceptics tell me that it is not possible)-but i can see the difference between 1920 x 1080 and lower formats even on the CRT TV via SCART cable. Avoid using composit or super video cables as they do not deliver the best quality. SCART or component. SCART with the setting "RGB". Of course HDMI on a HDTV. There are all cables in the KISS KP600 box. So this enables us to an amazing amount of posibilities. A HD DVD could be converted to HD DivX, and burned on a DVD-R. After that it can be watched in FULL HD via the Kiss Player on a HDTV. Many free or minimal pay programmes are able to convert in full 1920 X 1080 with manual selection of the bitrate. If you have a HD video recorder you can take the full HD, edit, and burn it on a DVD-R and play it in full HD format, in either DivX-XVID-MPEG4 or WMV9. The player does not by now support H264 compression, which at the moment is the most compressed video file format. Furthermore the palayer is equiped with WIFI. You can stream from Windows or MAC-personal computer any content to the player. It even goes on the internet and are able to opdate itself.(I have an Intel MAC) It also has USB2. The streaming and USB2 has some limitations though. Afyter my own investigations it will stream up to 1343 KiloBits per second. That is sufficient for ordinary DivX movies which use a default bitrate about 900 Kilobits second, but insufficient to HD homemade or Microsoft HD wmv content which stream about 10.000 kilobits/sec. For that content you have to burn a DVD-R or DVD-RW. The player has frequent updates, and you have to suffer a bit. Mabee you insert a record and the player will not read the files or displays dark screen.;-) Then you have to use the main switch butten on the player and give it a new start. Then everything will come on fine.;-) The ability of the player is magnificent in both ordinary DVD play and HD play. You just have not seen a high quality picture like this player is able to deliver. It could be a tool to free the consumers of the format tyranny!;-))) Just thought you should now, as i think that you are the most interested. The danes are just not ready for this kind of information yet!;-))) Greets jens Denmark -- Sendt med Operas banebrydende postklient: http://www.opera.com/mail/ Why would you need to use a 4.7G DVD-R, why not a DL disc? Presumably the unit can read dual layer discs since all commercial movies are on dual layer discs? Just curious. |
New way to watch HD on TV
On Thu, 08 Feb 2007 08:19:42 -0800, SoCalCommie wrote:
No, according to the specs http://www.kiss-technology.com/?p=600en&v=users , it supports PAL / NTSC. TTUL... John Different model. Still, you can't get HD with NTSC. -- Want the ultimate in free OTA SD/HDTV Recorder? http://mythtv.org http://mysettopbox.tv/knoppmyth.html Usenet alt.video.ptv.mythtv My server http://wesnewell.no-ip.com/cpu.php HD Tivo S3 compared http://wesnewell.no-ip.com/mythtivo.htm |
New way to watch HD on TV
Different model? DP-600 is what... different from the DP600? And the
discussion wasn't about Hi-Def TV from normal broadcast sources (mostly crap content anyway - I HATE pro-sports and don't particuarily care for episodic shows - I watch movies). TTUL... John "Wes Newell" wrote in message news:Y%[email protected] On Thu, 08 Feb 2007 08:19:42 -0800, SoCalCommie wrote: No, according to the specs http://www.kiss-technology.com/?p=600en&v=users , it supports PAL / NTSC. TTUL... John Different model. Still, you can't get HD with NTSC. -- Want the ultimate in free OTA SD/HDTV Recorder? http://mythtv.org http://mysettopbox.tv/knoppmyth.html Usenet alt.video.ptv.mythtv My server http://wesnewell.no-ip.com/cpu.php HD Tivo S3 compared http://wesnewell.no-ip.com/mythtivo.htm |
New way to watch HD on TV
Den 08.02.2007 kl. 15:46 skrev SoCalCommie :
I have a WMV-HD comercial disk (To the Limit) that plays thru my P4 based system at 1080p (I too downloaded the 'clips' from Micrsoft's 'HD media showcase' website). The disk is full double layer (8.5 G), contains both 720p and 1080p WMVs, but the feature is only 38 minutes long. So, unless you're willing to apply a lot of compression to the program, it wouldn't be possible to put a 'feature length' (120 minute) movie on a regular 4.7 G DVD-R. TTUL... John ++++++++ Glad you brought that up. Microsoft wmv HD fortmat uses a bitrate under 10.000 kilobits/sek. So obviously the 38 minutes is not due to limits in bits, but limits in the film length itself. With 10.000 kilobits/sek for mpeg4 or wmv you would have 1 hour HD-film on a singlelayer DVD-R. So we see that nearly every movie could fit a doubble layer disc. And there are several possibilities to tweek the codecs, which we haven't considered. Greets Jens -- Sendt med Operas banebrydende postklient: http://www.opera.com/mail/ |
New way to watch HD on TV
Den 08.02.2007 kl. 22:08 skrev Bates :
http://www.opera.com/mail/ Why would you need to use a 4.7G DVD-R, why not a DL disc? Presumably the unit can read dual layer discs since all commercial movies are on dual layer discs? Just curious. ++++++++++ You are so right. The player is able to read double layer discs. -- Sendt med Operas banebrydende postklient: http://www.opera.com/mail/ |
New way to watch HD on TV
Den 08.02.2007 kl. 15:54 skrev SoCalCommie :
Another thing, I checked out the 'Kiss' link and reviewed the specs. Nowhere does it mention HDCP compatability (Hi-bandwidth Digital Copyright Protection). I don't know if this is an issue in Europe, but it sure is in the US. TTUL... John +++++++++++++++ HDCP is not-and maybe never shall be implemented in DVD content. The posibility exists, but not a single firm have implemented it! There are several reasons. first of all, no one can see the reason for doing it. For the second, Microsoft fights against implementing it, and have taken all factories under oath for not doing it! That is because the XBOX 360 does not have a HDMI plug. It only has component (3 RCA plugs in different colours) which is an analog connection, that cannot have HDCP encoding. Should HDCP be implementet in DVD playing, then the quality of XBOX content should only be shown with 1/3 of full quality! It would render the XBOX360 useless! So up to now (and forever) HDPC is only implementet in TV content. So cheer up!;-) -- Sendt med Operas banebrydende postklient: http://www.opera.com/mail/ |
New way to watch HD on TV
Den 08.02.2007 kl. 22:56 skrev Wes Newell :
On Thu, 08 Feb 2007 08:19:42 -0800, SoCalCommie wrote: No, according to the specs http://www.kiss-technology.com/?p=600en&v=users , it supports PAL / NTSC. TTUL... John Different model. Still, you can't get HD with NTSC. ++++++++++++ You can certenly get HD content playing in full 1920 X 1080, because the player outputs the picture to your HDTV and it is a HD player. But it is not the same formats as the HD content on a HDDVD. It is DivX with the same quality or wmv with the same quality. You deside. which quality and which bitrate. Greets Jens -- Sendt med Operas banebrydende postklient: http://www.opera.com/mail/ |
New way to watch HD on TV
"Lyrik" wrote in message ... HDCP is not-and maybe never shall be implemented in DVD content. The posibility exists, but not a single firm have implemented it! There are several reasons. first of all, no one can see the reason for doing it. For the second, Microsoft fights against implementing it, and have taken all factories under oath for not doing it! That is because the XBOX 360 does not have a HDMI plug. It only has component (3 RCA plugs in different colours) which is an analog connection, that cannot have HDCP encoding. Should HDCP be implementet in DVD playing, then the quality of XBOX content should only be shown with 1/3 of full quality! It would render the XBOX360 useless! So up to now (and forever) HDPC is only implementet in TV content. So cheer up!;-) Microsoft is fighting against HDCP?? It's built into their latest operating system, Windows VISTA. They call it Digital Rights Management. They are one of the biggest supporters of DRM & HDCP other than the content providers themselves. Personally, I wish all of them would drop the whole DRM & HDCP thing. You can have a monitor that is capable of displaying HD content and it not have an HDCP enabled, DVI or HDMI connector on it, and the playback software in a HD-DVD drive will either reduce the output resolution of the video or refuse to play it at all. I know that the reason for DRM & HDCP is to protect their content and reduce piracy, (they'll never get rid of it) but all they are actually doing is forcing people that have hardware that is capable of handling HD (if it were not for the DRM & HDCP thing) to purchase newer, DRM & HDCP-enabled equipment. james -- Sendt med Operas banebrydende postklient: http://www.opera.com/mail/ |
New way to watch HD on TV
Den 08.02.2007 kl. 23:58 skrev james :
"Lyrik" wrote in message ... HDCP is not-and maybe never shall be implemented in DVD content. The posibility exists, but not a single firm have implemented it! There are several reasons. first of all, no one can see the reason for doing it. For the second, Microsoft fights against implementing it, and have taken all factories under oath for not doing it! That is because the XBOX 360 does not have a HDMI plug. It only has component (3 RCA plugs in different colours) which is an analog connection, that cannot have HDCP encoding. Should HDCP be implementet in DVD playing, then the quality of XBOX content should only be shown with 1/3 of full quality! It would render the XBOX360 useless! So up to now (and forever) HDPC is only implementet in TV content. So cheer up!;-) Microsoft is fighting against HDCP?? It's built into their latest operating system, Windows VISTA. ... james +++++++++ Yeah!;-)) Isn't that funny?;-)) They are speaking with two tungs. You see they did not foresee that they would be the first victim of the implementation on DVD content! It is so funny!;-)))"He who digs a grave for others, often fall into it himself!" Greets jens -- Sendt med Operas banebrydende postklient: http://www.opera.com/mail/ |
New way to watch HD on TV
"Lyrik" wrote in message ... Den 08.02.2007 kl. 23:58 skrev james : "Lyrik" wrote in message ... HDCP is not-and maybe never shall be implemented in DVD content. The posibility exists, but not a single firm have implemented it! There are several reasons. first of all, no one can see the reason for doing it. For the second, Microsoft fights against implementing it, and have taken all factories under oath for not doing it! That is because the XBOX 360 does not have a HDMI plug. It only has component (3 RCA plugs in different colours) which is an analog connection, that cannot have HDCP encoding. Should HDCP be implementet in DVD playing, then the quality of XBOX content should only be shown with 1/3 of full quality! It would render the XBOX360 useless! So up to now (and forever) HDPC is only implementet in TV content. So cheer up!;-) Microsoft is fighting against HDCP?? It's built into their latest operating system, Windows VISTA. .. james +++++++++ Yeah!;-)) Isn't that funny?;-)) They are speaking with two tungs. You see they did not foresee that they would be the first victim of the implementation on DVD content! It is so funny!;-)))"He who digs a grave for others, often fall into it himself!" Greets jens -- Sendt med Operas banebrydende postklient: http://www.opera.com/mail/ I'm sure you are talking about the HD-DVD's being copied with the XBox 360 HD drives and using WinDVD (not a Microsoft product) to grab the keys to decode the HD-DVD movies. I am sure that Microsoft and others are all a bit upset over that one. But, now, it's not limited to HD-DVD. I have read that Blue Ray has fallen to a similar hack. I think that before the studios keep investing tons of money in this stuff, that they drop it all together and just lower the prices of the movies to the point it's not worth the effort for the majority of people to even consider copying movies. But, given the amount of greed involved, I don't see that happening anytime soon either. james |
New way to watch HD on TV
In an ideal world, there would be NO COMPRESSION. Unfortunately, that would
require a file size per 2 hour movie greater than any reasonable storage device available today. Whatever compression scheme is used, DATA is lost (DivX, WMV, MPEG2 or 4). Bit rates are selective. Compression schemes are still in development - based on perceived 'quality'! WMV-HD is perceived to be better than MPEG-2, but that doesn't mean that some people will see a difference (or care). BTW... checking out the bit-rate and resolution on my 'WMV-HD 1080p' disk of 'To the Limit', Media Player (WMP-11) reports: 2.22 Gbytes, with a 'bit-rate of 8469kbps, and a resolution of 1440 x 1080!!! (NOT 1920 x 1080 - but it still blows away standard DVD.) TTUL... John "Lyrik" wrote in message ... Den 08.02.2007 kl. 22:56 skrev Wes Newell : On Thu, 08 Feb 2007 08:19:42 -0800, SoCalCommie wrote: No, according to the specs http://www.kiss-technology.com/?p=600en&v=users , it supports PAL / NTSC. TTUL... John Different model. Still, you can't get HD with NTSC. ++++++++++++ You can certenly get HD content playing in full 1920 X 1080, because the player outputs the picture to your HDTV and it is a HD player. But it is not the same formats as the HD content on a HDDVD. It is DivX with the same quality or wmv with the same quality. You deside. which quality and which bitrate. Greets Jens -- Sendt med Operas banebrydende postklient: http://www.opera.com/mail/ |
New way to watch HD on TV
On Feb 8, 9:27 pm, "SoCalCommie" wrote:
In an ideal world, there would be NO COMPRESSION. Unfortunately, that would require a file size per 2 hour movie greater than any reasonable storage device available today. Whatever compression scheme is used, DATA is lost (DivX, WMV, MPEG2 or 4). Bit rates are selective. Compression schemes are still in development - based on perceived 'quality'! WMV-HD is perceived to be better than MPEG-2, but that doesn't mean that some people will see a difference (or care). BTW... checking out the bit-rate and resolution on my 'WMV-HD 1080p' disk of 'To the Limit', Media Player (WMP-11) reports: 2.22 Gbytes, with a 'bit-rate of 8469kbps, and a resolution of 1440 x 1080!!! (NOT 1920 x 1080 - but it still blows away standard DVD.) TTUL... John I was editing some OTA HD tonight for home viewing Saturday night. The Fox (KTTV LA) shows were running 15 Mbits, KCBS 17.5, KCET (PBS) 11.5, KABC 12. As for uncompressed HD, you're talking 1.5 Gbit / second which looks really good but you're talking $80,000 tape machines. GG |
New way to watch HD on TV
When you talk about OTA... I don't have any experience. I live in the
'heart' of a major city (7th largest in the US), in a 3 story building, surrounded by 20+ story edifices. There's no hope for me to receive OTA! I believe you.. I can't prove it one way or another. TTUL... John "G-squared" wrote in message oups.com... On Feb 8, 9:27 pm, "SoCalCommie" wrote: In an ideal world, there would be NO COMPRESSION. Unfortunately, that would require a file size per 2 hour movie greater than any reasonable storage device available today. Whatever compression scheme is used, DATA is lost (DivX, WMV, MPEG2 or 4). Bit rates are selective. Compression schemes are still in development - based on perceived 'quality'! WMV-HD is perceived to be better than MPEG-2, but that doesn't mean that some people will see a difference (or care). BTW... checking out the bit-rate and resolution on my 'WMV-HD 1080p' disk of 'To the Limit', Media Player (WMP-11) reports: 2.22 Gbytes, with a 'bit-rate of 8469kbps, and a resolution of 1440 x 1080!!! (NOT 1920 x 1080 - but it still blows away standard DVD.) TTUL... John I was editing some OTA HD tonight for home viewing Saturday night. The Fox (KTTV LA) shows were running 15 Mbits, KCBS 17.5, KCET (PBS) 11.5, KABC 12. As for uncompressed HD, you're talking 1.5 Gbit / second which looks really good but you're talking $80,000 tape machines. GG |
New way to watch HD on TV
On Thu, 08 Feb 2007 22:30:09 +0000, SoCalCommie wrote:
Different model? DP-600 is what... different from the DP600? And the discussion wasn't about Hi-Def TV from normal broadcast sources (mostly crap content anyway - I HATE pro-sports and don't particuarily care for episodic shows - I watch movies). TTUL... John I got sidetracked looking at this one. I don't care about dvd players. http://www.kiss-technology.com/?p=vr558en&v=users -- Want the ultimate in free OTA SD/HDTV Recorder? http://mythtv.org http://mysettopbox.tv/knoppmyth.html Usenet alt.video.ptv.mythtv My server http://wesnewell.no-ip.com/cpu.php HD Tivo S3 compared http://wesnewell.no-ip.com/mythtivo.htm |
New way to watch HD on TV
On Thu, 08 Feb 2007 23:50:14 +0100, Lyrik wrote:
Den 08.02.2007 kl. 22:56 skrev Wes Newell : On Thu, 08 Feb 2007 08:19:42 -0800, SoCalCommie wrote: No, according to the specs http://www.kiss-technology.com/?p=600en&v=users , it supports PAL / NTSC. TTUL... John Different model. Still, you can't get HD with NTSC. ++++++++++++ You can certenly get HD content playing in full 1920 X 1080, because the player outputs the picture to your HDTV and it is a HD player. But it is not the same formats as the HD content on a HDDVD. It is DivX with the same quality or wmv with the same quality. You deside. which quality and which bitrate. I can do all that with the DVD drive in my PC. I don't need another dvd player. For me, this whole box is nothing but a boat anchor without ATSC. -- Want the ultimate in free OTA SD/HDTV Recorder? http://mythtv.org http://mysettopbox.tv/knoppmyth.html Usenet alt.video.ptv.mythtv My server http://wesnewell.no-ip.com/cpu.php HD Tivo S3 compared http://wesnewell.no-ip.com/mythtivo.htm |
New way to watch HD on TV
"SoCalCommie" wrote in message et... When you talk about OTA... I don't have any experience. I live in the 'heart' of a major city (7th largest in the US), in a 3 story building, surrounded by 20+ story edifices. There's no hope for me to receive OTA! I believe you.. I can't prove it one way or another. Have you tried to receive OTA? Strong RF does a pretty good job playing pinball with steel and glass. |
New way to watch HD on TV
SoCalCommie wrote:
When you talk about OTA... I don't have any experience. I live in the 'heart' of a major city (7th largest in the US), in a 3 story building, surrounded by 20+ story edifices. There's no hope for me to receive OTA! Don't be so sure. I live in the heart of San Francisco, and am able to pick up every one of the ATSC channels from the two nearest broadcast towers. -- URL:http://www.pobox.com/~ylee/ PERTH ---- * Homemade 2.8TB RAID 5 storage array: URL:http://groups.google.ca/groups?selm=slrnd1g04a.5mt.ylee%40pobox.com |
New way to watch HD on TV
Yeechang Lee wrote:
Don't be so sure. I live in the heart of San Francisco, and am able to pick up every one of the ATSC channels from the two nearest broadcast towers. I forgot to add ". . . with a $20 indoor antenna." -- URL:http://www.pobox.com/~ylee/ PERTH ---- * Homemade 2.8TB RAID 5 storage array: URL:http://groups.google.ca/groups?selm=slrnd1g04a.5mt.ylee%40pobox.com |
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