[cardeiro]

I have finally watched my first video from unbox (after 3 downloads and nearly 2 months I finally found a period of time I was confident I could watch the movie within the stingy 24 hour envelope)

I was very displeased with the quality of encoding. The movie I saw was "casino royale" and whenever there was any sort of fast action, the video was jittery and blurry, and many of the cuts would appear as 2 frame dissolves. I am so glad it was free, I do not think I could stomach watching another movie with such poor encoding.

dvd rental still wins: superior encoding; more than 24 hours to watch a movie (with 3 kids and some semblance of a life, this is critical)

Mike Cardeiro

 

[ZeoTiVo]

sigh - there are many threads on this susbject already. always best to find one and add in there vs the "yet another thread" syndrome that creates too much noise on the forum.

 

[Stanley Rohner]

sigh - there are many threads on this susbject already. always best to find one and add in there vs the "yet another thread" syndrome that creates too much noise on the forum.

There aren't any threads on any susbjects already.

 

[ZeoTiVo]

There aren't any threads on any susbjects already.

you know this is just thread crap and that most people ignore you because of it - welcome to my ignore list

 

[Stanley Rohner]

you know this is just thread crap and that most people ignore you because of it - welcome to my ignore list

Is this the middle of a sentence ?
There's no evidence of a beginning or an end.

 

[ZeoTiVo]

There's no evidence of a beginning or an end.

much like your threadcrap

- end transmission

 

[snedecor]

much like your threadcrap

- end transmission

I thought he was on your ignore list.....

 

[cardeiro]

sigh - there are many threads on this susbject already. always best to find one and add in there vs the "yet another thread" syndrome that creates too much noise on the forum.

really? I just did a forum search on "unbox encoding", "unbox quality", and "unbox nearly unwatchable" and did not see any threads that looked like my thread. Now there may very well be threads on this subject but it was not apparent from my searchs.

Sorry to have taken up your time

Mike

 

[rigger29]

most of the threads are in the developers forum area for the unbox standalone HME version which discussed about the download quality. Now there Might not be any new threads pertaining to tivos new unbox feature but they both work the same way and quality has been discussed many,many,many times.

 

[ZeoTiVo]

really? I just did a forum search on "unbox encoding", "unbox quality", and "unbox nearly unwatchable" and did not see any threads that looked like my thread.

I just put in "UNBOX quality" and the first 9 threads were on UNBOX specifically and 5 of them had extensive discussion of quality - some of it quite technical and informative even. Since the OP gets to name the thread I do not usually go by thread title alone YMMV

 

[moxie1617]

How about searching the Unbox sticky at the top of the page for "quality".

 

[RoyK]

I'm certainly glad we have the thread police protecting us from the earth shaking catastrophe that duplicate threads would create.

 

[Stanley Rohner]

much like your threadcrap

- end transmission

Is this your way of ending a sentence ?
That sure was clever, and also really funny.


Your could just try using a period (AKA ".") once in a while.

 

[MickeS]

dvd rental still wins: superior encoding; more than 24 hours to watch a movie (with 3 kids and some semblance of a life, this is critical)

Yep.

I think this is still intended mostly for Series 2 and non-HD sets, on which I would assume it looks not that different from a regular DVD.

I'd say the quality is about "Best" quality TiVo recording, so it's probably more a complement to that, rather than a serious competitor to DVD rentals.

If they just made the videos 16:9 aspect ratio, I think that would improve the quality quite a bit.

 

[MickeS]

Is this your way of ending a sentence ?
That sure was clever, and also really funny.


Your could just try using a period (AKA ".") once in a while.

Who gives a crap? Just drop it.

 

[Stanley Rohner]

Who gives a crap? Just drop it.

How about I drop you ?

 

[davezatz]

Speaking off off-topic things, where's everyone getting these Simpsons avatars?

 

[MickeS]

Speaking off off-topic things, where's everyone getting these Simpsons avatars?

http://www.simpsonsmovie.com

 

[greg_burns]

http://www.simpsonsmovie.com

That just made this thread worth reading after all. :up:

 

[ZeoTiVo]

That just made this thread worth reading after all. :up:

Don't have an Atom Heart Mother, man,