SvennoJ said:
yo_john117 said:
Yeah I know Netflix HD and Blu-ray have a huge difference. Netflix HD looks like a DVD.
What I was wondering is if 1080P HD on demand (such as the Hunger Games) is close or about the same as Blu-ray. Because the Hunger Games on my HDTV in full 1080p looks as good as it did in the movie theater.
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I doubt it, unless you have Google fibre and they offer extremely high bitrate movies.
I don't know which service you have. I have Rogers and they stream 15mbps mpeg2 for 1080i60 HD on demand movies, again nice with slow moving scenes but not holding up well during action. (mostly due to the ancient mpeg2 compression)
Blu-ray streams 1080p24, so next to a higher bitrate (and more advanced codecs in my case at least) you also get the movie footage without the 3:2 pulldown conversion.
In my experience it's:
Netflix HD <= PS3 movies (upto 6mbps vc-1) < Xbox movies (upto 10mpbs vc-1) = on demand streaming << blu-ray <<<< cinema
(1080i60 or 1080p60 doesn't make any difference for 24fps movies)
The cinema version should be much better then blu-ray and HD on demand in theory, but it all depends on how well the system has been calibrated. Most of the time it looks better at home since you can control brightness, contrast and ambient lighting exactly to your liking. Plus projecting from a point source through 100ft of air onto a huge flat screen is never perfect.
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I suppose I should let you know that I didn't stream the Hunger Games. I downloaded it onto the Xbox and watched it cause I knew streaming it wouldn't be quite as good as straight up downloading it.
Also since when did Cinemas have flat screens? All of the ones I have been to have the modern slightly curved DLP screens (I think that's what they are called).
Either way thanks for the insights.
