ChetK said:I watched Casino last night on Universal HD last night and it looked pretty darn good. I know it's not StarzHD, but isn't Universal HD an HD-Lite mpeg-4 channel?
ChetK said:I watched Casino last night on Universal HD last night and it looked pretty darn good. I know it's not StarzHD, but isn't Universal HD an HD-Lite mpeg-4 channel?
Mark Strube said:StarzHD and NFL-HD are both in mpeg2 (on the 129 sat, on the 61.5 they're still mpeg4), but apparently the bitrate on StarzHD is now hanging around 8mbps. It's a bad bitrate, but it still looks better than the horrible, soft, blurry, detail-killing mpeg4. At least now we have small object detail when there isn't too much motion, and the picture of live action doesn't almost look like there's an animated glaze over it (in certain movies).
long_time_DNC said:I watched Enemy of the State earlier and the PQ is better than SD, but still softer than HBO-HD or Showtime-HD...
I noticed it too last night. Starz HD quality sucks right now.Tom Bombadil said:I caught it on the 2nd showing, off of 61.5.
It was hard to believe that this was supposed to be HD. I agree definitely better than SD, but very soft for HD. I wish I had the DVD here to compare it to.
And it also had the same middle of the screen pixelation on motion that Narnia had.
None of the other channels had the same artifact.