Microsoft 1080p streaming tech

Strife212 · 2 Jun 2009 at 18:13

Sky's doesn't, you can download 1TB a month if you want.

peahead · 2 Jun 2009 at 18:14

wow that looks great id say it looks just as good as some of my blu-ray films.

Demon · 2 Jun 2009 at 18:15

NightSt@lk3r said:
Even most Unlimited packages have fair use policy's

Yeah, the vast majority of ISP's are sods when it comes to this..

I think O2/BE/SKY and to some extent Virgin are relatively ok in this department..

But the UK is slowly going forwards, we should have Fibre To The Cabinet (hopefully) rolled out over the next 2-3 years, and we are slowly gearing up for it.. However, we are a bit behind the times, and this idea isn't best placed in the UK, although quite a few people can take advantage of it..

msmalls74 · 2 Jun 2009 at 18:15

1080p but what is the Audio? Or do they forget that people like nice sound quality aswell?

NightSt@lk3r · 2 Jun 2009 at 18:15

Strife212 said:
Sky's doesn't, you can download 1TB a month if you want.

Thats only for there LLU service.

Demon · 2 Jun 2009 at 18:22

msmalls74 said:
1080p but what is the Audio? Or do they forget that people like nice sound quality aswell?

It will be certainly at least old fashioned Dolby Digital level of quality.. I guess for regular punters, that's more then good enough..

This service is not going to be much different to SKY HD's movies at the moment, and that's one hell of a popular service.. but it's bitrate is a little lower then I'd like (Audio and Video), but then I'm fussy, and still I watch quite a few movies on SKY HD throught the projector, and even with lowly regular DD it's more then passable..

Macro · 2 Jun 2009 at 19:30

More of varying quality at http://www.smoothhd.com/ interesting to see you can click almost anywhere along the timeline to jump to that bit of video with no noticable buffering.

peahead · 2 Jun 2009 at 21:11

so is this the technology thats going to be used to stream 360 hd movies ?.

Marky · 2 Jun 2009 at 21:24

The sound staggers for me... anyone getting this? I'm on firefox...

Bigpig · 2 Jun 2009 at 21:40

I must say that worked flawlessly on my 1 meg line.
Very impressive

wwwebber · 2 Jun 2009 at 22:11

Its horribly compressed and blurry - whats the point ? - is it actually better than DVD ??.

rp2000 · 2 Jun 2009 at 22:13

wwwebber said:
Its horribly compressed and blurry - whats the point ? - is it actually better than DVD ??.

It is if you run it at the full 4mbit stream.

I am confused about this thread, what has it got to do with console gaming? A new web browser plugin that allows adaptive streaming bitrates. Great.

rp2000

Raikiri · 2 Jun 2009 at 22:16

rp2000 said:
It is if you run it at the full 4mbit stream.

I am confused about this thread, what has it got to do with console gaming? A new web browser plugin that allows adaptive streaming bitrates. Great.

rp2000

It's made by MS, who just announced 1080p streaming for the 360.

rp2000 · 2 Jun 2009 at 22:19

Raikiri said:
It's made by MS, who just announced 1080p streaming for the 360.

Using this technology? I must have missed this. Was it in the E3 speech?

rp2000

Raikiri · 2 Jun 2009 at 22:21

They didn't specifically mention it, but it stands to reason that they would implement it.

cheets64 · 2 Jun 2009 at 22:21

The tech was but the fact they have 1080p movies streaming instantly, cant see it being hard to implement on a 360 and over Live.

Marky · 2 Jun 2009 at 22:58

No one else getting stuttering sound?

Annoying!

wannabedamned · 2 Jun 2009 at 23:22

No stuttering at all, Seamless on Sky unlimited

Psymonkee · 3 Jun 2009 at 00:00

Marky said:
No one else getting stuttering sound? Annoying!

I'm just getting cracking and popping noises

Inazuma · 3 Jun 2009 at 00:07

So the higher your connection speed, the less compressed the video will look? And the video will be 1080p all the time regardless?