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PS3 quality vs. ATV quality?
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Well if your TV supports it, its
720p(ATV) vs 1080p Blue Ray disk
Also depends on how you connect that devices
720p(ATV) vs 1080p Blue Ray disk
Also depends on how you connect that devices
It will also depend on your screen (plasma/LCD/projector). If your screen is 1080 native then you will see a difference. If it is only 720 native then the 1080 will be scaled to your screen and the visible difference will be marginal.
Here in the UK the first HD screen were only 720 native (extended definition?) and not 1080 native. Now more 1080 native screen are on the market and I am getting upgraditis!
Here in the UK the first HD screen were only 720 native (extended definition?) and not 1080 native. Now more 1080 native screen are on the market and I am getting upgraditis!
Blu-Ray will be virtually uncompressed 1080 video (that's why they hold 50 gigs or so) and likely have uncompressed audio (True HD).
The ATV will have H.264 720 compressed video (highly efficient, but compressed nonetheless) and, at best, Dolby Digital (compressed 5.1) audio.
Wouldn't uncompressed 1080p be the following:
(24fps) x (1920 x 1080 pixels) x (24bit color)= 1,194,393,600 bps or 1,194 Mbps
1,194 Mbps >>>50 Mbps
The Blu-Ray standard is 40 mb/s, thus the word virtually.
Edit: I'll add that relative to DVD and H.264 it's not compressed too much at all.
Edit: I'll add that relative to DVD and H.264 it's not compressed too much at all.
You're being incredibly misleading. There's a huge discrepancy in bit rate for the two formats, which has a much greater impact on the picture than 720p vs 1080p.
As others have said, it really depends on your TV. I have a Pioneer Plasma and you can see the difference using blu-ray.
I use the PS3 as my dvd replacement / blu-ray player. ATV is mostly for on-line content. I tried to use the PS3 for playing on-line content, but the interface sucks for big libraries. For me, its also been a crapshoot whether it will play the same video on more than one occasion. One day a movie will play, the next, it comes up as unsupported data type.
After having used both, I really see them as having two different uses although some would try and say they are the same.
I use the PS3 as my dvd replacement / blu-ray player. ATV is mostly for on-line content. I tried to use the PS3 for playing on-line content, but the interface sucks for big libraries. For me, its also been a crapshoot whether it will play the same video on more than one occasion. One day a movie will play, the next, it comes up as unsupported data type.
After having used both, I really see them as having two different uses although some would try and say they are the same.
56" Samsung 1080P DLP
Bluray is absolutely FLAWLESS. But it also depends on individual titles. BluRay has a grading system, the top titles look spectacular. SOme of the lower graded titles look like basic DVD to me.
I can't really judge how the ATV will look as i've never played any HD Content on it.
Bluray is absolutely FLAWLESS. But it also depends on individual titles. BluRay has a grading system, the top titles look spectacular. SOme of the lower graded titles look like basic DVD to me.
I can't really judge how the ATV will look as i've never played any HD Content on it.
PS3 playing video ....
Yeah! I'm fighting the same frustrating issue. I have a Linux-based "Myth TV" box set up with a DLP projector in my basement. It works great showing movies on the projector ... but I got the idea I'd like to have access to its same library from my PS3 upstairs, so I could also watch the movies/videos on my plasma TV.
I can't seem to get a straight answer from anybody on exactly how I should be encoding my movies to get the PS3 to play them properly without ever popping up the "unsupported data" message. I seem to have a few that it always plays just fine, but not sure exactly WHY those work and others don't.
I've got a mix of DivX, XViD, AVI and MP4 movies (plus even a couple ISO images of full movie DVDs) and the "knoppmyth" distro of MythTV plays them all perfectly. On the PS3, serving them up over my wireless N connection, I'd say only 1 out of 5 or 6 plays properly - and some of those momentarily pause, every 10 or 15 minutes (probably due to the wi-fi connection being just a HAIR too slow to stream them effectively).
Anyone know specific settings for a program like "VisualHub" to mass-transcode my library to work well on a PS3 (perferrably in as good a quality as possible while still compressing enough for a wi-fi connection to stream it reliably)??
Yeah! I'm fighting the same frustrating issue. I have a Linux-based "Myth TV" box set up with a DLP projector in my basement. It works great showing movies on the projector ... but I got the idea I'd like to have access to its same library from my PS3 upstairs, so I could also watch the movies/videos on my plasma TV.
I can't seem to get a straight answer from anybody on exactly how I should be encoding my movies to get the PS3 to play them properly without ever popping up the "unsupported data" message. I seem to have a few that it always plays just fine, but not sure exactly WHY those work and others don't.
I've got a mix of DivX, XViD, AVI and MP4 movies (plus even a couple ISO images of full movie DVDs) and the "knoppmyth" distro of MythTV plays them all perfectly. On the PS3, serving them up over my wireless N connection, I'd say only 1 out of 5 or 6 plays properly - and some of those momentarily pause, every 10 or 15 minutes (probably due to the wi-fi connection being just a HAIR too slow to stream them effectively).
Anyone know specific settings for a program like "VisualHub" to mass-transcode my library to work well on a PS3 (perferrably in as good a quality as possible while still compressing enough for a wi-fi connection to stream it reliably)??