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<blockquote data-quote="Lifeisabeach" data-source="post: 1235578" data-attributes="member: 38864"><p>*ahem* Actually… the ATV2 will play 1080p videos, though it will only output to 720p. And only if the bitrate isn't too extreme. And it supports higher bitrates than you'd think. I have one… lesse… a 7GB movie that actually plays flawlessly at a bitrate of 8883 Kbps at 720p. Well to be honest I've only watched about 15 minutes into it, but watching the streaming progress bar and the ATV just manages to cache ahead of the stream.</p><p></p><p>But anywho… the point I'm leading up to is that these are largely limitations to the hardware, not simply being "Apple's way". And most people are overly hung up on 1080p vs 720p. At a viewing distance of 8 feet, the human eye cannot resolve the additional detail of 1080p over 720p unless they have at least a 50" set. Of course bitrates have an effect too, as does the quality of the source material. Apple's videos actually do look better than a 720p video ripped off a Blu-Ray because they are getting their media from a source well in excess of 1080p. The higher the quality is of the source material… the better a downsized version of it will be. We decided to stop buying Blu-Ray movies and stick to iTunes rentals. For what Blu-Rays cost, and as unlikely we'd watch anything in particular more than once or twice, it just isn't practical to buy and the iTunes rentals look much better than people who judge solely by the specs give them credit for.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>It doesn't sound like you are wirelessly streaming your videos. Certainly not with 30 Mbps media. I had constant problems streaming, even with the hardware decoding-supported Plex. Battlestar Galactica, for ex., transcoded to h.264 in an MKV container with the original DTS track and each episode coming in a bit over a gig or so in size… some episodes were constantly pausing so the stream could catch up. Same videos… remuxed to m4v with the DTS track downmixed to AC3… no issues in Front Row. At all. Defragging my media drive helped a lot for the more problematic ones, but it persisted to a lesser extent and I finally had enough. I had no issues if I played directly off the Mac mini, but I didn't have the drive space to store all my stuff on it and didn't want to put an external drive out there. If cost were no object, I'd go back to using Plex on a Mac mini with an attached 4-drive RAID box and just have Blu-Rays ripped and left as-is in all their glory on that.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Lifeisabeach, post: 1235578, member: 38864"] *ahem* Actually… the ATV2 will play 1080p videos, though it will only output to 720p. And only if the bitrate isn't too extreme. And it supports higher bitrates than you'd think. I have one… lesse… a 7GB movie that actually plays flawlessly at a bitrate of 8883 Kbps at 720p. Well to be honest I've only watched about 15 minutes into it, but watching the streaming progress bar and the ATV just manages to cache ahead of the stream. But anywho… the point I'm leading up to is that these are largely limitations to the hardware, not simply being "Apple's way". And most people are overly hung up on 1080p vs 720p. At a viewing distance of 8 feet, the human eye cannot resolve the additional detail of 1080p over 720p unless they have at least a 50" set. Of course bitrates have an effect too, as does the quality of the source material. Apple's videos actually do look better than a 720p video ripped off a Blu-Ray because they are getting their media from a source well in excess of 1080p. The higher the quality is of the source material… the better a downsized version of it will be. We decided to stop buying Blu-Ray movies and stick to iTunes rentals. For what Blu-Rays cost, and as unlikely we'd watch anything in particular more than once or twice, it just isn't practical to buy and the iTunes rentals look much better than people who judge solely by the specs give them credit for. It doesn't sound like you are wirelessly streaming your videos. Certainly not with 30 Mbps media. I had constant problems streaming, even with the hardware decoding-supported Plex. Battlestar Galactica, for ex., transcoded to h.264 in an MKV container with the original DTS track and each episode coming in a bit over a gig or so in size… some episodes were constantly pausing so the stream could catch up. Same videos… remuxed to m4v with the DTS track downmixed to AC3… no issues in Front Row. At all. Defragging my media drive helped a lot for the more problematic ones, but it persisted to a lesser extent and I finally had enough. I had no issues if I played directly off the Mac mini, but I didn't have the drive space to store all my stuff on it and didn't want to put an external drive out there. If cost were no object, I'd go back to using Plex on a Mac mini with an attached 4-drive RAID box and just have Blu-Rays ripped and left as-is in all their glory on that. [/QUOTE]
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