Da xi shi arent you forgetting

Da xi shi

arent you forgetting bitrate?? Another bug bear of mine at the moment is when 720p movies are touted as HD. Although it technicly counts as a HD resolution, I dont think anything in the UK Should be called HD unless its 1080p, i mean our DVDs over here are encoded at arround 1024×768 anamorphic so a 1280×720 download makes verry little diference, whereas the US R1 DVDs I have are encoded at 720×480 at a maximum. I Have a FULL HD 1080 24p 100Hz TV, and if Im going to watch a download, it better use all those darn pixels with exception of the realy wide screen films with bars at the top and bottom still. The DVDs are encoded in anamorphic, however the actual native resolution of it in the UK for PAL format is 720x Compare that to 1280×720, you have an increase of 506, 880 pixels more than twice the native DVD resolution. And there is a big difference between DVDs and 720p stuff. Clarity is significantly different. 1080p does give yet another huge resolution boost over 720p, but to the human eye, the clarity difference between the two from the optimum viewing point isnt that drastic. It all depends how close you are to your TV and how big your TV is in relation to how close you are. fivepoint posted a chart somewhere, however I really dont want to end up going down the 720p versus 1080p road again. The DVDs are encoded in anamorphic, however the actual native resolution of it in the UK for PAL format is 720x Compare that to 1280×720, you have an increase of 506, 880 pixels more than twice the native DVD resolution. And there is a big difference between DVDs and 720p stuff. Clarity is significantly different. 1080p does give yet another huge resolution boost over 720p, but to the human eye, the clarity difference between the two from the optimum viewing point isnt that drastic. It all depends how close you are to your TV and how big your TV is in relation to how close you are. fivepoint posted a chart somewhere, however I really dont want to end up going down the 720p versus da xi shi road again. This is true, HD is in its infancy. if you look at TVs 20 years ago da xi shi see where we are now, 20 years from now many people will be able to afford a 100 pulldown blind style TV, imagine an SD image on that monster This is true, HD is in its infancy. if you look at TVs 20 years ago and see where we are now, 20 years from now many people will be able to afford a 100 pulldown blind style TV, imagine an SD image on that monster my projector is wide vga, so about 480 lines like ntsc. set up with an approximately 6 foot widescreen it looked ok, not as sharp as hd would be obviously, but utterly watchable. It wouldnt be great for poor quality image sources where the small size can hide problems, im thinking especially older games systems and the like here, but a dvd isnt bad. and that big is always a good thing, im smiling thinking about it now: i enjoy my new hd kit, but big sd isnt all that bad if you cant get an hd source. my projector is wide vga, so about 480 lines like ntsc. set up with an approximately 6 foot widescreen it looked ok, not as sharp as hd would be obviously, but utterly watchable. It wouldnt be great for poor quality image sources where the small size can hide problems, im thinking especially older games systems and the like here, but a dvd isnt bad. and that big is always a good thing, im smiling thinking about it now: i enjoy my new hd kit, but big sd isnt all that bad if you cant get an hd source. DVD is high bitrate with optimisations, you want to see SD sports on UK cable/Sat: The FastMac drives are rebadged Panasonic UJ-225 slot load and UJ-220 tray drives that are 5mm in height, not 5mm. Thats why they only offer them for the iMac and 17 MBP, as opposed to the 5mm drives needed for the current 15 MBP or 13 MB. Its also notable that the OEM pricing on those drives is less than half what FastMac is charging. Do the height of these drives include the faceplate which I assume is to fill the bay? Or is it just the actual part of the drive silver enclosure? In the past building computers tray or slot the front of the drive was the same size as the part that went into the bay. As far as Blu-Ray goes in terms of the new MacBooks, I think there will be Blu-Ray as either standard OR as a BTO option on ALL models, not just the MBPs. Id rather pay through the nose for a legit copy of a movie now than pay through the nose later because I leeched a movie off a torrent site. The movie industry has me as a paying literally customer. Having Blu-Ray as an OPTION in these new MacBook models is very important to me. As far as Blu-Ray goes in terms of the new MacBooks, I think there will be Blu-Ray as either standard OR as a BTO option on ALL models, not just the MBPs. Id rather pay through the nose for a legit copy of a movie now than pay through the nose later because I leeched a movie off a torrent site. The movie industry has me as a paying literally customer.