Thread: The silver lining......

Originally Posted by Consultant

Here's a question - when NetFlix offers streaming on-demand movies - what format is that in?

In all honesty, HD DVDs and BluRay Discs are basically the same damn thing and are the same format. What's the real difference? One is a Sony product and one is a Microsoft product. That's about it.

I think blu ray won because it had a better name.

Originally Posted by Keiron

Originally Posted by Consultant

Here's a question - when NetFlix offers streaming on-demand movies - what format is that in?

In all honesty, HD DVDs and BluRay Discs are basically the same damn thing and are the same format. What's the real difference? One is a Sony product and one is a Microsoft product. That's about it.

Originally Posted by Keiron

Originally Posted by Consultant

Here's a question - when NetFlix offers streaming on-demand movies - what format is that in?

In all honesty, HD DVDs and BluRay Discs are basically the same damn thing and are the same format. What's the real difference? One is a Sony product and one is a Microsoft product. That's about it.

one's 1080 and ones 720. that's a big difference.

I could have sworn they could both be 1080, just one was 1080p and the other was 1080i. I don't have any info at the moment to back that up that, but I will definitely see if I can try to find the specifics.

http://www.digital-digest.com/highde...aq.html#faq201
http://www.somacon.com/p116.php

Just a quick google search before I get back to work. So theorically, they both can support 1080 resolution, if they do or not is another story. I'd assume it has to do with the TVs being used most commonly as a number of TVs only support 720.

There is also 720p resolution (1280x720, progressive), which is the current native resolution of many home theatre displays, and also SD resolution support, similar to today's DVDs.

Granted the article was first created in 2005 so I'm sure that has changed some in recent years, but the vast majority probably only run on 720 max right now.

There's always blue ray porn Rage. Don't get all knotted up over it. You need to learn to release your stress somehow.