Well, the wait is finally over, Netflix showed up on my Mini Saturday afternoon, I love it! The Netflix for kids is a great addition, I know this feature isn't exactly new, but new to Tivo owners.
The app launches fast ,and is much more usable than on the Premiere, now I cant wait until my Roamio gets here, good bye premiere units!
I noticed if you press the info button while playing a Netflix title, you will get the bitrate info on the upper left. Plus it shows you when it's playing a SuperHD stream or a regular 1080P stream there also.
I noticed if you press the info button while playing a Netflix title, you will get the bitrate info on the upper left. Plus it shows you when it's playing a SuperHD stream or a regular 1080P stream there also.
Netflix is now working on my Mini following a V301 error. Not sure if Tivo fixed this or it was something I did. In addition to a reset (which did not seem to help), I reset all devices at netflix.com and connected to the Tivo service from the Mini.
For most people there is no advantage because their TV is just going to convert to 60fps. Some 120Hz or 240Hz TVs can display 1080p24 natively and there may then be some advantage.
Movies are shot at 24fps. The conversion to 60fps is not exact and can cause some stuttering. It's usually most noticeable in long panning shots. If you have a TV capable of displaying 24fps then it doesn't need the conversion and you'll see the movie exactly as the director intended.
I am using this on a Pioneer Pro-111 Elite which can do the 1080p24, so I might give this a shot to see how well it works. Maybe the wife will notice the difference???
Having a scaler in the device prevents the blink most TVs get when switching resolutions because everything is upscaled to 1080p60. And with adaptive streaming services like Netflix resolution switching is common, and can become very annoying, and having everything scaled to 1080p60 prevents that with very little noticeable quality loss.
Having a scaler in the device prevents the blink most TVs get when switching resolutions because everything is upscaled to 1080p60. And with adaptive streaming services like Netflix resolution switching is common, and can become very annoying, and having everything scaled to 1080p60 prevents that with very little noticeable quality loss.
I think what you are saying is that the scaler in a device is better than the scaler in a TV. This is probably true if the device is newer than the TV. But you can't for example scale 1080p24 to 1080p60 without doing the telecine thing because 60 isn't divisible by 24. So sometimes you really do need to output to the TV at the source resolution.
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