This is NOT awesome people! READ the damn specs carefully! This player can NOT do 1080/30p in some formats! It doesn't seem to have the horsepower. Which makes it pretty useless for people, let's say, with a Canon 5D Mark-II, or even some consumer HD camcorders!!! The Sony PS3 might not have as good support (e.g. no support for the .mov container), but whatever you throw at it will NOT die out of CPU starvation.
Western Digital must become more serious about this offering, because it's extremely close to be a _perfect_ solution. But they need to put a more beefy decoder in there.
For those who can't read carefully: the player claims 1080/24p and 1080/30i support for some formats. The 1080/30i seems to mean "60i with half of the frames thrown away with interpolation", because if it's really 30i, then this is a useless player. But it should add support for real 30p, because many people who have 60i camcorders, or 1080/30p digicams, they need to export at 1080/30p. In other words, the WD-TV-2 needs more horsepower.
I don't have one. But I am aiming for one if it gets additional 24p support. So I guess you didn't read my history carefully. ;) Regardless, I do have an HD camcorder, so 1080/30p is the *normal* export I would do after editing for such a cam (since Canon cams can shoot in PF30, which is actual 30p). Therefore, this WD-TV2 product leaves something to be desired. Western Digital went cheap on it.
You do realized all movies and a lot of videos are actually at 1080/24p, right? 24fps is the movie standard, not 30fps. I don't see what your fascination is for trying to export your movies with the extra approximately 6fps. Are your eyes that much better then everyone else's that it is noticeable?
The term 60i and 30i are the same. Opposing circles refer to it differently, but it means the same. An analog guy would say 60i (that's what it is), and a digital guy would say 30i because the image is stored progressively at 30 full frames (aka 30p), but when displayed the decoder understand to show only top or bottom fields producing 60 frames (minus HALF the resolution).
So if something can do 30i, it can do 30p and 60i.
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This is NOT awesome people! READ the damn specs carefully! This player can NOT do 1080/30p in some formats! It doesn't seem to have the horsepower. Which makes it pretty useless for people, let's say, with a Canon 5D Mark-II, or even some consumer HD camcorders!!! The Sony PS3 might not have as good support (e.g. no support for the .mov container), but whatever you throw at it will NOT die out of CPU starvation.
Western Digital must become more serious about this offering, because it's extremely close to be a _perfect_ solution. But they need to put a more beefy decoder in there.
For those who can't read carefully: the player claims 1080/24p and 1080/30i support for some formats. The 1080/30i seems to mean "60i with half of the frames thrown away with interpolation", because if it's really 30i, then this is a useless player. But it should add support for real 30p, because many people who have 60i camcorders, or 1080/30p digicams, they need to export at 1080/30p. In other words, the WD-TV-2 needs more horsepower.
Yes, you have a Canon 5D Mark-II, we get it. (I read your post history.)
I don't have one. But I am aiming for one if it gets additional 24p support. So I guess you didn't read my history carefully. ;)
Regardless, I do have an HD camcorder, so 1080/30p is the *normal* export I would do after editing for such a cam (since Canon cams can shoot in PF30, which is actual 30p). Therefore, this WD-TV2 product leaves something to be desired. Western Digital went cheap on it.
You do realized all movies and a lot of videos are actually at 1080/24p, right? 24fps is the movie standard, not 30fps. I don't see what your fascination is for trying to export your movies with the extra approximately 6fps. Are your eyes that much better then everyone else's that it is noticeable?
The term 60i and 30i are the same. Opposing circles refer to it differently, but it means the same. An analog guy would say 60i (that's what it is), and a digital guy would say 30i because the image is stored progressively at 30 full frames (aka 30p), but when displayed the decoder understand to show only top or bottom fields producing 60 frames (minus HALF the resolution).
So if something can do 30i, it can do 30p and 60i.
Not even a $700 Blackmagic DeckLink Studio card does 1080/30p. http://www.blackmagic-design.com/products/decklink/techspecs/