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Posted by: Nessy
The bungie.net community is the halo PC community that is renowned for being unbelieveably sucky.
Posted by: staticx576
I heard the rented movies look like crap compared to the full HD-DVD versions at least for HD movies, SD looks like garbage anyways.
Anyways IMO all this marketplace rent is garbage, I want a DRM free full quality video then Ill care. Anyone else feel this way?
No comparison between Marketplace HD video and HD DVD or BD. You'll never have full quality, especially with the long movies. All the video is encoded with VC-1, Microsoft's do-no-wrong-low-bitrate-to change the world codec. AFAIK, everything is limited to 1280x720p as well. VC-1 is a great efficient codec, but just like mpeg2 or AVC, it still needs the proper bitrate to avoid blocking. Understand that Microsoft wants VC-1 to be THE codec of the future, to replace mpeg2, and Marketplace is the perfect way to get this rolling. Also, Microsoft has a huge stake in HD DVD, where we have seen high quality, high bitrate VC-1 implemented on virtually all discs, save for a few mpeg4/AVC titles.
Nevertheless, if Microsoft makes Marketplace videos available to PC users, it would be a huge step towards VC-1 global domination, and another step closer to networked video on demand as the future of TV viewing.
BTW, AFAIK, the South Park HD episode is free to download at this time...
[Edited on 3/8/2007]