View Full Version : iTunes movies on HDTV..How do they look???
bored28
09-15-2006, 04:34 PM
I was just wondering if anyone has gotten around to trying out iTunes new Movie Download service and if so, how do these movies look on HDTVs? They are encoded at 640x480 as opposed to the 720x480 of DVDs so I'm just wondering how they hold up then placed on an HDTV. Any comments would be greatly appreciated. Cheers!
Ratman
09-15-2006, 04:47 PM
They would probably look no better than broadcast SDTV on an HDTV.
bored28
09-15-2006, 05:27 PM
That would be a fair assertion, however; i'm looking for a first hand account. Thanks for the comment.
Ratman
09-15-2006, 05:42 PM
Fair enough... but the numbers speak for themselves, right?
bored28
09-16-2006, 02:07 AM
Again, I agree. However, let me reiterate: I'm looking for a first hand account. Thanks
kevinw
09-16-2006, 08:02 AM
I was just wondering if anyone has gotten around to trying out iTunes new Movie Download service and if so, how do these movies look on HDTVs? They are encoded at 640x480 as opposed to the 720x480 of DVDs so I'm just wondering how they hold up then placed on an HDTV. Any comments would be greatly appreciated. Cheers!
Like blown up images.Not very good.IMO
Ratman
09-16-2006, 09:05 AM
And there you have it! :)
bored28
09-16-2006, 06:06 PM
Thanks kevin, I appreciate the response. Cheers.
Ratman
09-16-2006, 08:03 PM
I do also. Thanks to Kevin for reinforcing my comments.
bored28
09-17-2006, 01:38 AM
I'm not trying to be facetious, but using the term "probably" and ending a phrase with "right?," seems to hint at the fact that you did not have the facts in order to make such a comment. For example, by simply stating "Cogito, ergo sum." does not necessarily mean that a person has the intellectual capacity to support such a statement. :)
Please excuse the horribly dry sense of humor here....;)
Ratman
09-17-2006, 07:34 AM
I was trying to stimulate one's thought process to logically deduce (on their own) that 640x480 will look exactly like NTSC. Which we all know how that appears on "our" HDTV's.
If I were to have just stated in post #2, "It looks like NTSC", would that have sufficed?
Probably not. Right? ;)
Veni, Vidi, Vici
bored28
09-17-2006, 05:00 PM
Eureka! This thread is exhausted. hahaha. Cheers Ratman.
