HD and You

By Sir Topham Hatt
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HD And You  

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  1. 1. Do You Own an HD Player?

    • Yes - PC
      88
    • Yes - Dedicated Blu-Ray Player
      19
    • Yes - PS3 or Other
      59
    • No
      47

  2. 2. Do You Watch TV / Movies in HD?

    • Yes - PC
      109
    • Yes - TV
      84
    • Yes - PS3 or Other
      58
    • No
      23

  3. 3. My ... is HD

    • Monitor
      34
    • TV
      39
    • Both
      85
    • None
      17

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Sir Topham Hatt

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When do you think you will transfer to HD?

I have been thinking about it for a while after downloading some HD content. Although my monitor (LG L207WT) isn't really HD, the larger resolution video file was VERY noticable.

Another question regarding, my old LG DVD/HDD can play certain files (Divx encoded I think); but has there been any advancement in this with HDD/DVD players? My test HD file was a .MKV file, but the player didn't recognise it (probably due to age). Are recent players equiped to play MKV's, AVI's or whatever?

Thanks

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Isn't every PC an HD player as long as it's fast enough to play back the video content and supports 1080 resolution?

Yep, pretty much.

Here are my answers:

Yes - PC

Yes - PS3 or other (Xbox 360 HDDVD (haha))

Yes - PC

Yes - TV

Yes - PS3 or other

Both

I have a pretty huge HD movie collection on my computer that I watch on my 1080p 40" Samsung LED TV via HDMI and S/PDIF to my speakers.

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My test HD file was a .MKV file, but the player didn't recognise it (probably due to age).

Thats normal and not the fault of your player or its manufacturers as H.264 already has two perfectly capable ISO standardized containers for h.264 the blame belongs with the incompetent people who gave you this file and the incompetent people who erroneously give this container credit for h.264 and put up with its lack of support.

I suggest you mux the file to either MP4 or M2TS which your device and every other device supports, MKV2Vob can do this and there is no file size or quality drop.

As for the poll

Yes - PC

Yes - Dedicated Blu-Ray Player

Yes - PS3 or Other (KISS 1600)

Yes - PC

Yes - Dedicated Blu-Ray Player

Yes - PS3 or Other (KISS 1600)

Both

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Sir Topham Hatt

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Thats normal and not the fault of your player or its manufacturers as H.264 already has two perfectly capable ISO standardized containers for h.264 the blame belongs with the incompetent people who gave you this file and the incompetent people who erroneously give this container credit for h.264 and put up with its lack of support.

I dunno as the player doesn't say it supports MKV. The file is HD though as I tried it on the PC.

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BOth of my systems can display HD content, my PC can display larger content since it has a bigger screen, both systems only have a DVD drive since Blu-Ray drives are still expensive, and I haven't bothered looking for them, our TV is also HD (although in reality it's just a really big PC monitor), but the DVD player hooked up to it only handles DVD resolution MPEG4 content (and only ASP stuff at that, so DivX/XviD works, H.264 won't)

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I have been thinking about it for a while after downloading some HD content. Although my monitor (LG L207WT) isn't really HD, the larger resolution video file was VERY noticable.

...

How small is your monitor? My old LCD can display 1280x720 video with space to spare.

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yes - dedicated blu-ray player (though haven't seen a single blu-ray movie yet)

yes - tv (though i'm a casual viewer so it's usually only for the few selected sitcoms when their new episodes are on, or if there's some kind of a documentary on discovery etc...)

yes - pc...doesn't everyone?

i don't buy movies because i've rarely ever wanted to watch a movie more than once so couldn't ever justify buying anything. i'm not a gamer either so don't have PS3/x-box hooked up...do have a wii but haven't played that since may...

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