Posts by peterjcat

Quote: Originally Posted by bodosom But, to get back to the point, another approach would be to assess your (US) library (btw, my iTunes doesn't display framerate) and if it's mostly 30fps use 60Hz and if it's 24fps* then try the...

I don't work for Apple but I'm not sure why you're disqualifying iTunes content from testing the capabilities of the ATV? If you're suggesting that iTunes is transcoding content on-the-fly, it's not -- as you can tell from the CPU usage....

Quote: Originally Posted by bodosom I believe you're misreading these lines: H.264 video up to 1080p, 30 frames per second, MPEG-4 video up to 2.5 Mbps, 640 by 480 pixels, 30 frames per secondthat is, H.264 video up to 1080p at 30fps. ...

Quote: Originally Posted by bodosom I was speaking about INPUT. In any case Apple's take on it can be found here. How are you determining frame rate? I know, but the guy you were replying to was talking about both source and output...

Quote: Originally Posted by bodosom The only frame rate currently supported on the ATV is 30. The ATV2 can output 720p at 50Hz or 60Hz; the ATV3 will add 1080p at 50Hz or 60Hz, and there's a small chance also 24Hz but no indication so...

Personally I make an ISO to preserve the entire BD including menus, picture-in-picture etc. So it's only the Oppo (perhaps the O!Play) for me for now. Still hoping for a Dune or Popcorn Hour with HDMI 1.4 and 3DBD ISO.

Correct, Dune can't play 3D BD.

The problem I believe is that the studios test their titles on the most popular equipment, eg Sony and Panasonic. They can't test on everything so they leave it up to Oppo to ensure compatibility. Oppo is pretty good at updating the...

There are 720 x 480 pixels on an NTSC DVD but anamorphic means that the pixels are meant to be displayed as rectangles rather than squares, so for a widescreen film the 720 pixels on the disc will take up 954 pixels on the screen. So...

Quote: Originally Posted by dmusoke No, i haven't tried a wired connection from my laptop to my router. But the wireless playback is fine, if i playback HD videos directly from youtube wirelessly, w/o using PlayOn (DLNA server?). But...