[mythtv-users] Matrox Millennium G400 MAX

aaron memoryguy at gmail.com
Tue Oct 5 15:11:07 UTC 2010


On Tue, Oct 5, 2010 at 11:01, Brian Wood <beww at beww.org> wrote:
> On Tuesday, October 05, 2010 08:49:06 am aaron wrote:
>
>>
>> We just got Netflix streaming in Canada. I am eager to sign up, but my
>> free time is so limited I can't make much use of the free month offer.
>> At least I want to see what the quality is like. Does it look good? Is
>> it worth the extra bandwidth to stream in HD? (my cap is 60 GB, which
>> I usually don't go near, but I do use a reasonable chunk for backups
>> and other "routine" stuff)
>>
>
> Sorry, I meant to answer this.
>
> At it's best it's DVD quality, at last to an untrained eye. With limited bandwidth, it can get a little blocky, but is
> still very watchable. I haven't tried their "HD", since I'm watching it via PlayON, which doesn't do that, so I can't say
> if it's worth it.
>
> My brother watches it with a Samsung Blu-Ray player and says it's "as good as cable", but he is not very critical (he has
> a hard time seeing the difference between VHS and DVD).

That certainly sounds watchable to me... I have analog cable :D

Thanks!

aaron


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