Good point about mere resolution not being the quality benchmark for HD... it realistically should be the bit-rate (yes, I realize that is kind of set by the codec and how it's configured, but I find bit-rate is a better metric to comprehend). And therein lies the issue. Somehow I think more folks have 10Mb/s service than any single other standard (I'm talking broadband, not all connections, I bet there's still a ton of analog modems out there).
A BD disc runs ~40-45 Mb/s. CableLabs specs 12-15 for what the cable guys should be doing.
So for all who have a nominal 10 Mb/s connection, how can you "see" smooth HD? Seems to me, it has to be reduced to something like 6-8 Mb/s. Not to mention that many folks have calculated cable delivered HD around 8 or so.
At the bottom we have 3 and 7 Mb/s DSL. At the top we have FiOS, which seems to run 35 Mb/s for new subs.
Quite the range... so some questions I have are:
1. curious about a streamer (i.e Netflix) have more than one encode, detect the connection and deliver what is appropriate?
2. would it even be possible to dynamically encode during delivery?
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1200 Mb/s on DSL??? Yeah, right!
Good point about mere resolution not being the quality benchmark for HD... it realistically should be the bit-rate (yes, I realize that is kind of set by the codec and how it's configured, but I find bit-rate is a better metric to comprehend). And therein lies the issue. Somehow I think more folks have 10Mb/s service than any single other standard (I'm talking broadband, not all connections, I bet there's still a ton of analog modems out there).
A BD disc runs ~40-45 Mb/s. CableLabs specs 12-15 for what the cable guys should be doing.
So for all who have a nominal 10 Mb/s connection, how can you "see" smooth HD? Seems to me, it has to be reduced to something like 6-8 Mb/s. Not to mention that many folks have calculated cable delivered HD around 8 or so.
At the bottom we have 3 and 7 Mb/s DSL. At the top we have FiOS, which seems to run 35 Mb/s for new subs.
Quite the range... so some questions I have are:
1. curious about a streamer (i.e Netflix) have more than one encode, detect the connection and deliver what is appropriate?
2. would it even be possible to dynamically encode during delivery?