HD Internet TV?

[jc480]

Just wondering if someone can help fill in the state of internet broadcasting and HD.

In my mind, I can see something like this...

Broadband internet PC downloads content...caches to harddrive to provide a smooth feed (akin to what the adobe flash player does)...from there the computer video card has an HDMI output? or a separate HDMI OUT card? that I would send to my receiver as an auxillary input...from the receiver to the TV.

Is this feasible and/or possible to do yet? Be awesome to put something like ESPN 360 on my TV. But I don't think any of the internet broadcasts are of any measurable picture quality...HD takes up a fair amount of bandwidth.

Secondly...with tetrabyte harddrives becoming so cheap...are we at a point where we can put numerous blu-rays on our harddrives and stream movies to the TV via software instead of using a disc in a BD player? Sort of like having Netflix server on your own home computer.

[Oniichan]

hey there,

of what you are talking about, let me give you this scenerio which happend last year.
My daughter was living in Florida, she came for a visit, while we were watching tv, she noticed i had one of my computers sitting next to my tv. She looked at me and said why is that there? Well, i said watch this, i turned it on, booted it up, mind you i have a 65" Mitsubishi DLP. I got online, brought up Hulu.com and we watched a couple shows.
Now one thing i want to add, it loked fine, but every once in a while it glitches, once you actually see it, you will know what i mean. Well, when she returned to Florida, she canceled cable, hooked up her pc to the tv and signed up for netflix lol.
I personally think they need to work on a better delivery somehow so there is absolutely no glitching. I dont see broadcasting via internet anytime soon.
I find this kinda funny, but it works, I have an Xbox 360, and i am using that as watching my netflix stuff, never get any glitches at all.
If you are running wireless, forget it....................
for your sports programs, stick with cable.................

Hello dears..
Very Interesting your comments i like it,
Explain one question..
What is HD TV?

[DVDave]

Sure you can do this with Hulu, Netflix, PS3 and Xbox360 and AppleTV but anybody who believes they are seeing real HD quality through all of the compression has been misled to believe their marketing lies. It is NOT true HD quality. Just pop in a blu-ray and you'll see what real HD quality looks like.

Until they can increase internet speeds/bandwidth to support streaming gigabytes of data per second, you are at the mercy of glitchy, lossy and compressed HD downloads.

[Oniichan]

Originally Posted by coms

Hello dears..
Very Interesting your comments i like it,
Explain one question..
What is HD TV?

umm, coms dear?

HDTV = High Definition Television

[SammyB]

My brother and sister both do this. They're in college and can't afford cable, so they watch the cheaper option like your talking about. I use netflix instant but I also have hd cable from comcast.

Now, netflix does have flaws from time too time because of it's compression. But comcast is just as bad, in a different way. Comcast has it's fair (or over) share of macroblocking. The NCIS theme song part, towards the end where it changes images fast, full of macroblocking. Any concert with a light show, full of macroblocking. Action movies, fast shots, high speed chases.... You get the idea.

Comcast does have a bit more detail and "pop" than I've scene from netflix. But they both have equal, but different flaws.

I watch Wall Street Money Never Sleeps from Vudu yesterday on my ps3. Looks amazing, especially for a streaming service. Vudu is 6 bucks however for their best pq per movie. (I used a free credit however).

But the only way to get a HD picture that looks pristine is blu-ray. Everything else has rather noticeable flaws because of compression.