? on dnlding HD 720p flicks

[ksuno1stunner]

if i were to burn it to a dvd, would it show up clear without an hd dvd player?  how would it look on regular "analog" tv?  LMK

[ew2x4]

wow.
 
Ok, so you need an HDTV to make HD media look, well, HD. SD has only so many pixels to display. So, you need an HDTV that supports 1080i (which is 720p) or 1080p. I assume you mean SD when you say analog. Analog and digital just are the types of tuners a tv has.

Finally, a DVD player will not play HD media. Your 360 will. It needs to be a .avi, .wmv, or .mp4. You can put it on a DVD, a flash drive, or stream it directly from your hard drive.

[ksuno1stunner]

wow.
 
Ok, so you need an HDTV to make HD media look, well, HD. SD has only so many pixels to display. So, you need an HDTV that supports 1080i (which is 720p) or 1080p. I assume you mean SD when you say analog. Analog and digital just are the types of tuners a tv has.

Finally, a DVD player will not play HD media. Your 360 will. It needs to be a .avi, .wmv, or .mp4. You can put it on a DVD, a flash drive, or stream it directly from your hard drive.

i can still watch it right?  god i have no idea.  i don't have an hd player for my 360.  like, no way to play mkv files?

http://www.smartforumz.org/forums/showthread.php?t=11870

example of what i am dnlding.  i just want to watch it on tv.   your "wow" sounded mean.

[ew2x4]

You will be able to play HD files on your 360, not a normal dvd player. It probably is a .mkv file, and those do not play on the 360 (or any other dvd player). I'm not sure it will play on an SD tv. The whole purpose of downloading SD instead of HD is to have small downloads. HD can get around 4-40 GB. An SD will be around 700 MB.

You may want this one instead:

http://thepiratebay.org/tor/3903680/Dark_City_(1998)

Download that if you are familiar with torrents. If not, install utorrent and click on the link above, and click "download this torrent." It's only 800 MB.

[PCR]

You can watch HD on your computer.  In order to play HD material on your TV, you need an HD source, such as a Sat/Cable box, HD-DVD, Blu-ray or a special graphics card for your computer that outputs in HD.  You can make a pretty good signal out of a DVD with component cables and progressive scan, but it will technically be SD, or 480p. 

[AzCat]

So, you need an HDTV that supports 1080i (which is 720p) ....

Ummm ... no.

[ew2x4]

So, you need an HDTV that supports 1080i (which is 720p) ....

Ummm ... no.

While not the same thing, a layman may as well think it as hdtv's either support 1080p as the highest or 1080i/720p as the highest. Picture quality is a push. So is file size.

[AzCat]

So, you need an HDTV that supports 1080i (which is 720p) ....

Ummm ... no.

While not the same thing, a layman may as well think it as hdtv's either support 1080p as the highest or 1080i/720p as the highest. Picture quality is a push. So is file size.

Also not true.  A 1080p display that properly handles interlacing of 1080i content delivered to it at >= twice its refresh rate will, for all intents and purposes, produce a signal that is identical or nearly identical to 1080p since the odd and even frames can be interlaced in a buffer then dumped simultaneously to the display. Compare to a 720p signal which will, no matter how the playback and display devices handle the signal, always contain far less information than either a 1080i or 1080p signal.

Playback of DL'd content on a PC should show a very clear difference between 1080i and 720p content since there's absolutely no excuse for a purely software-based playback solution to do anything other than handle the interlacing of odd & even frames of 1080i content perfectly.  But of course PC-based playback of 720p is still 720p no matter how good or bad the player. 

File size depends on the amount of compression applied which is infinitely variable, particularly since compression is often cranked up during rips intended for Internet distribution specifically to reduce the file size.  That is, a 1080p rip might well be smaller than a 720p rip if the 720p rip is native and the 1080p rip is re-compressed. 

HTH