Compared to streaming HD services offered by the local TV companies, yes I do find AppleTV's HD service lacking.
Sure it's 720p, but the bitsreams are quite lacking compared to most 720p sources. I'm not quite sure on the hard numbers, but for example, when I rip a 480p movie (assuming 2 hours in length on average) off a DVD, and the source file size is around 6 GB before compression, I would expect a 720p HD movie offered from iTunes to be bigger than 3 GB after compression.
|