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Old 06-22-2009, 05:20 PM   #15
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Originally Posted by HotHotHeat View Post
Apple TV will be great when it goes to 1080p.
Not really, compression really limits the quality of any high def video that you could download, at least until 100Mbit Internet is pervasive.

A Blu-ray movie is 20-30GB or more, compress that down to 2 or 3GB for Apple TV.. compression isn't magic, compression = loss of information.

Or look at it another way, Blu-ray has a 40Mbit/s bitrate, Apple TV currently supports 4Mbit/s.

(Uncompressed 1920x1080 60fps is 3000Mbit/s!)
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