funny how they say that movies on xbox live look worse than upscaled dvd's yet they praise apple tv saying it's a close second. ironic since apple tv's hd rentals are lower in quality than xbox live hd rentals.
Ben, xbox live hd downloads are 6.8 mbit @ 720p (vs 5mbit @ 720p for appletv). so in most cases xbox live should look better or atleast as good on xbox live.
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north @ Feb 13th 2008 5:28PM
Near second huh? Apple tv looks pretty bad between the two. I take it that was a joke you said right? Near dvd I'd say.
Galley @ Feb 13th 2008 5:39PM
From iLounge's comparison, I would rate them in the following order:
1. BD
2. Apple TV
3. HD Cable
4. SD DVD
michael @ Feb 13th 2008 5:40PM
funny how they say that movies on xbox live look worse than upscaled dvd's yet they praise apple tv saying it's a close second. ironic since apple tv's hd rentals are lower in quality than xbox live hd rentals.
Ben @ Feb 13th 2008 5:48PM
Michael
What do you mean, do you have a link?
aaron @ Feb 13th 2008 6:07PM
Ben, xbox live hd downloads are 6.8 mbit @ 720p (vs 5mbit @ 720p for appletv). so in most cases xbox live should look better or atleast as good on xbox live.
michael @ Feb 13th 2008 6:33PM
Ben, here's a link:
[url=http://blogs.zdnet.com/Ou/?p=959]http://blogs.zdnet.com/Ou/?p=959[/url]
michael @ Feb 13th 2008 6:35PM
whoops. the link is correct but the way i wrote is was wrong. here's the same link but in a better looking way: http://blogs.zdnet.com/Ou/?p=959
Ben @ Feb 13th 2008 6:39PM
Michael,
Yeah that guy is an idiot. I would've never said that about the 360 downloads.
locke6854 @ Feb 14th 2008 6:05AM
On a tangent, looking at the updated post from michael's link, they compare dish network with direct tv. Dish looks nicer.
This actually coincides with the comparison shots I've seen on avsforum... dish apparently has less compression artifacts than direct tv.
I'd like to see how either compares to fios