Watching HD on a MAC.. is it really HD?

[Dansta]

Stupid question I guess... but if i've obtained a file in 720.. its about 1.1GB in size, its not proper HD is it?... started playing it.. it looks good... but nothing like HD on my plasma? Just better than a normal version downloaded I reckon.

Are Mac screens HD?

 

[sn00p]

Depends what codec and how long it is! 1.1GB could be just about right for 30 mins of pr0n! lol

Yep, all recent iMacs will have greater resolution than the 720 format, the 24 inch iMac has more pixels (both dimentions) than 1080.

 

[Dansta]

hmmm just watching 24 now... looks OOOK... as good as standard def tv i guess... but doesnt look HD to me. Hmmmmm i wonder what im doing wrong

 

[sn00p]

Depends how you encoded it mate, if you've forgotten the settings then Windows/Information/Advanced Information and look for the video stream, that'll tell you the dimensions...won't tell you the bitrate though which is what will make the quality good or poor.

 

[Munson]

If it's a ~1.2GB mkv as per the other thread, then it will be 720p. They normally look pretty damn good besides some visible compression in darker scenes.

 

[PinkoCommie]

It is HD, it just happens that you run a higer res than HD is.

720p is only 1280×720
1080p is 1920×1080

So you monitor is more than likely higher than 1080p anyway. (which is why i always giggle a bit when people boast of how their console works in HD, when PC's have had HD games for years)

 

[McBunny]

the game bit is incorrect really it all depends what the textures in the game were rendered at

just because games run at a high resolution doesnt mean that they are in fact hd or what ever it just means you set it to that res and its scaling it to that res

 

[Dansta]

Depends how you encoded it mate, if you've forgotten the settings then Windows/Information/Advanced Information and look for the video stream, that'll tell you the dimensions...won't tell you the bitrate though which is what will make the quality good or poor.

Im on a mac fella...
I didnt know i had encoded it lol... NEWB

 

[sn00p]

Im on a mac fella...
I didnt know i had encoded it lol... NEWB

I know you are...

...you must have encoded it, otherwise it'd be piracy wouldn't it?

 

[Dansta]

ermmm yeah.
just finished watching it anyways... twas good enough lol!

Cheers guys

 

[Munson]

the game bit is incorrect really it all depends what the textures in the game were rendered at

just because games run at a high resolution doesnt mean that they are in fact hd or what ever it just means you set it to that res and its scaling it to that res

That's not correct surely? Games in high PC res look FAR better than running at a lower res. It's not just about the texture sizes.

 

[Rich]

There are some 1080p Quicktime movies on the Apple website, have a watch of them and see how they look.

 

[meady100]

Some codecs compress the crap out of the detail, regardless of the resolution. I downloaded a few of the HD res Planet Earths which looked great, but when I saw them off a BluRay disc a few weeks later, the difference became rather clear! And I totally agree, whenever I download HD stuff off a torrent it looks better, but not what I'd call spectacular. Maybe it's because you sit that much closer to a computer screen?

 

[Dansta]

Apple HD movie trailers look the fapping monkeys nuts

 

[Rich]

I played the Shark one from my Macbook when connected to my 1080p TV via DVi to HDMi it did look superb.

 

[Munson]

Apple HD movie trailers look the fapping monkeys nuts

1080p though?

You're talking about relatively highly compressed 720p, blown up onto a native 1200p screen and viewed from about 2 ft away? Hardly surprising TBH.

I watched a 720p mkv of Supernatural on a 42" plasma last night and it looked pretty damn good. It also made me s**t bricks but that's another story

 

[Rich]

They have both 720 and 1080 ones on there.

 

[dk]

Dan, don't forget that as well as getting a better picture the 1.2gb mkv's also mostly get 5.1 sound if you are playing it on a system with 5.1 obviously.

What did you use in the end?