Ultraflix picture qualiry?

[uther]

Originally Posted by Wendell R. Breland

Nothing. The referenced iMagic had/has a thread on AVS titled something like Giving Up on Blu-ray because streaming was good enough for him. He was/is supposedly a tech writer for AVS, what a joke, really for AVS.

Interesting. No link was provided before so saying 'good enough for them' is fine by me but saying 'just as good' is crossing the line and 'better then BD' is way over the line.

I take reviews with a lot of grain of salt ever since a certain piece of media hardware was reviewed on every site I looked at (which was a lot) as having a 1gig ethernet connector when it was in fact 100Mbps to my great disappointment when I bought it. The company had put out a press release erroneous stating it was 1gig prior to the reviews.

[ray0414]

Originally Posted by uther

Interesting. No link was provided before so saying 'good enough for them' is fine by me but saying 'just as good' is crossing the line and 'better then BD' is way over the line.

I take reviews with a lot of grain of salt ever since a certain piece of media hardware was reviewed on every site I looked at (which was a lot) as having a 1gig ethernet connector when it was in fact 100Mbps to my great disappointment when I bought it. The company had put out a press release erroneous stating it was 1gig prior to the reviews.

He had a vizio m series with 4k interstellar side by side with his own personal F8500 plasma playing the blu ray version. I'm surprised he didn't have playback issues because almost everyone complains of freezing and stuttering. Mine was horrendous til I dropped the Mbps down which may have also lowered the quality.

[Oliver K]

Originally Posted by uther

However Ultrafix likes to issue press releases saying:

http://www.prnewswire.com/news-relea...300121433.html

Which I find incredulous but I have seen a lot of taking these claims at face value.

That press release is preposterous. I checked bandwidth and they did not even maintain 30 Mbps which would easily be possible with my connection, 40 Mbps, too. I would say their average streaming bitrate seemed to be closer to 15 Mbps even when using the highest speed and when I rented Forrest Gump (no preview) it looked horrible with massive degraining and sharpening. I cannot remember when I saw a Blu-ray that had such a nasty looking and unnatural picture so I asked for a refund and got it.

I will say though that from what I could gather their new previews give an accurate impression of what one will get from them and maybe with time they will improve, it is up to them. If they continue to produce the kind of quality that I have seen then I have a feeling that they won't be around for long as clearly there is no reason why the movies they offer in supposedly 4k quality should look like a**.

[cole2kb]

Originally Posted by Oliver K

That press release is preposterous.

YEP. Got to love how a company like this doesn't even understand the difference between Mbps and MBps. Or, are they REALLY trying to say that they can deliver "visually lossless" (wtf) 4K video with only 500 Kbps actual throughput? Good lord.