Why does anyone still try to pretend 360 > PS3?

[Wild Cobra]

Netflix on the 360 streams a lot of movies in HD. Netflix has a tab on the website where you can look up movies that are in HD and using an HDMI cable with the 360 gets you 1080p. If your computer and monitor is capable, you can watch HD movies on your computer as well.

When you watch a movie in HD just check your setting using the display. Mine always says 1080p.

Yes, anything it converted to 1080P, so are my DVD's from my bluray player. My question is, what is the signal sent in? It could be 1080i in the data stream, but it will get unconverted. Then there is the distortion from compression if it's packed too tight.

I wonder if it would be worth it for me to keep my Samsung Bluray player connected to the internet, and pay for Netfix. It's built in for easy access.

Is it as clear as a Bluray disk?

[Cry Havoc]

Netflix on the 360 streams a lot of movies in HD. Netflix has a tab on the website where you can look up movies that are in HD and using an HDMI cable with the 360 gets you 1080p. If your computer and monitor is capable, you can watch HD movies on your computer as well.

When you watch a movie in HD just check your setting using the display. Mine always says 1080p.

You're probably streaming an upconverted version. A true 1080p version of a movie will run over 20 gigs. I doubt Netflix is going to push that kind of data, and either way, I seriously doubt you're going to match the audio fidelity when you stream. Blu-Ray plays lossless audio, which is the best format short of a high quality vinyl record (and actually I haven't looked at the sampling rate of a Blu-Ray disc so this is a guess).

[Wild Cobra]

You're probably streaming an upconverted version.

that's where the quality degrades, as it gets compressed.

A true 1080p version of a movie will run over 20 gigs.

Exactly. Bluray... one layer... HD-DVD... two layers...

Cheaper to make a one layer BluRay than a two layer HD-DVD.

I doubt Netflix is going to push that kind of data, and either way, I seriously doubt you're going to match the audio fidelity when you stream.

It's hard to say, and why I'm asking. If they compress it less than cable companies do, it might be a decent picture. I still doubt it comes close to a real 1080P signal though.

[z0sa]

Yes, he is.

Blue ray has a higher data rate and 25 gigabytes per layer vs. 15 gigabytes per layer for HD-DVD.

That's why it's better. There is no denying the measurable facts. the standard hoes up to four layers, or 100 gigabytes. I may be wrong, but I think the limit for HD-DVD is 3 layers, or 45 gigabytes.

Logic doesn't work on balli. He's as emotion-based as a preggo.

[DarkReign]

From what I have read, BluRay won mostly because of the video game market. Much like how VHS won out over BETA because of the porn industry, BluRay beat HDDVD because Sony included a BluRay player on their system while Microsoft took forever just to sell a HDDVD player as a separate and expensive add-on.

Honestly, I never cared. But my wife did. She bought me a HDDVD player about a month before the official announcement that BluRay had won. She brought it home, all excited and giddy...I opened it and said as nicely as possible "Honey, HDDVD lost the format war. They wont even be making DVDs for this in a couple months." She was crushed.

[resistanze]

Honestly, I never cared. But my wife did. She bought me a HDDVD player about a month before the official announcement that BluRay had won. She brought it home, all excited and giddy...I opened it and said as nicely as possible "Honey, HDDVD lost the format war. They wont even be making DVDs for this in a couple months." She was crushed.

[koriwhat]

damn there's a ton of experts in here not making a dime on their rainman type knowledge.