Image Quality Difference
 

What is the image quality difference between the following:

1) BluRay 1080i image on a 42 inch HDTV in 1080i mode

2) A downloaded High Def movie playing on your PC in 1080i mode with the
same HDTV attached as the monitor.

Thanks for all replies

Vito

Image Quality Difference
 

Uncle_vito wrote:
What is the image quality difference between the following:

1) BluRay 1080i image on a 42 inch HDTV in 1080i mode

2) A downloaded High Def movie playing on your PC in 1080i mode with the
same HDTV attached as the monitor.

From whom are you downloading the HD movie? The picture quality of the
download will depend on encoding and how much compression the provider
uses to shrink the file size. Assuming that this is for a movie that has
a good HD transfer, the odds are that the Blu-Ray will have the better
picture. The temptation will be very high to seriously over-compress the
downloadable movie to save on bandwidth and file storage. The limit with
Blu-Ray is that it has to fit on a single layer 25 or dual-layer 50 GB
disk capacity.

Alan F

Image Quality Difference
 

Alan:

Thanks for your reply. You have given me an area to consider that I hadn't
thought of before.

To prompt further comment from you lets use the HD movies at this site
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/win...tshowcase.aspx.

What degree of compression would you expect here?

Thanks for your replies.

Uncle Vito




"Alan F" wrote in message
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Uncle_vito wrote:
What is the image quality difference between the following:

1) BluRay 1080i image on a 42 inch HDTV in 1080i mode

2) A downloaded High Def movie playing on your PC in 1080i mode with the
same HDTV attached as the monitor.

From whom are you downloading the HD movie? The picture quality of the
download will depend on encoding and how much compression the provider
uses to shrink the file size. Assuming that this is for a movie that has
a good HD transfer, the odds are that the Blu-Ray will have the better
picture. The temptation will be very high to seriously over-compress the
downloadable movie to save on bandwidth and file storage. The limit with
Blu-Ray is that it has to fit on a single layer 25 or dual-layer 50 GB
disk capacity.

Alan F