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Netflix, arguably the best of the streaming services, currently can't even deliver me reliable 720p HD streams (5 minutes in and the signal is rebuffering to a lower bitrate and my 8-10 Mbps broadband is much higher than average for American broadband speeds). How Microsoft, Vudu, etc plan to give us 1080p streams without crushing the signal to death I will love to see.

I have seen enough crappy 720p signals from cable providers to know that higher resolution has almost nothing to do with picture quality. Yeah, technically the picture's got 720 lines of vertical resolution but the macroblocking can get as big as postage stamps. But they still proudly call it "HD".]]>Jul 29th 2009 5:09PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/29/sonic-upgrading-cinemanow-movie-streaming-to-1080p/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/29/sonic-upgrading-cinemanow-movie-streaming-to-1080p/Jul 30th 2009 5:07AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/29/sonic-upgrading-cinemanow-movie-streaming-to-1080p/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/29/sonic-upgrading-cinemanow-movie-streaming-to-1080p/
They could've went with X times resolution of DVD. Would that be deceptive as well?]]>Jul 30th 2009 11:58AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/29/sonic-upgrading-cinemanow-movie-streaming-to-1080p/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/29/sonic-upgrading-cinemanow-movie-streaming-to-1080p/Jul 30th 2009 1:22PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/29/sonic-upgrading-cinemanow-movie-streaming-to-1080p/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/29/sonic-upgrading-cinemanow-movie-streaming-to-1080p/
You have to see this to believe it. Widevine was showing the HD Adaptive streaming at Cablelabs last week.

It was amazing to see. The clip was 1080i it was encoded in H.264. It seamlessly adapted from 2.5 Mbps to 10Mbps ...I think there were 4 or 5 different bit rates. The quality was amazing. It was playing back on Windows, Mac and a Blu-ray player.

What was even more amazing then the HD adaptive technology was that the 1080i Mbps H.264 clip played back on the PC/MAC. They attempted to play back the low bit rate version using a Flash player and silverlight and the CPU maxed out, stuterd and lost frames.

Sonic and Widevine really have something here.

- Morgan]]>Aug 16th 2009 12:25PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/29/sonic-upgrading-cinemanow-movie-streaming-to-1080p/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/29/sonic-upgrading-cinemanow-movie-streaming-to-1080p/
You have to see this to believe it. Widevine was showing the HD Adaptive streaming at Cablelabs last week.

It was amazing to see. The clip was 1080i it was encoded in H.264. It seamlessly adapted from 2.5 Mbps to 10Mbps ...I think there were 4 or 5 different bit rates. The quality was amazing. It was playing back on Windows, Mac and a Blu-ray player.

What was even more amazing then the HD adaptive technology was that the 1080i Mbps H.264 clip played back on the PC/MAC. They attempted to play back the low bit rate version using a Flash player and silverlight and the CPU maxed out, stuterd and lost frames.

Sonic and Widevine really have something here.

- Morgan]]>Aug 16th 2009 12:25PM