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ps3 and netflix

slightlyhuman

slightlyhuman

Lifer
watching videos via netflix on my ps3 and it shows that it's playing in 480p(and looks like total shit). i have a 32" dynex that is 720p. wtf?

my games look fine, just netflix. and i am using an hdmi cable.
 
Fingolfin269 said:
Are you expecting 720p content from Netflix? I know they have some but I think it's pretty rare.
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Yep you have to see which ones are HD and which aren't. They'll say HD if they are but don't expect great quality HD as it has to be compressed a lot and you have to have a fast internet connection to be able to get HD. If I remember they said you need a minimum of 5Mbps connection to get HD.
 
480p from Netflix looks decent on my 50" 1080p Samsung DLP whether it's my 360 or PS3 that is doing the playing.

Once in a while my Comcast network connection (or something in between me and the Netflix servers) gets slow enough that the picture gets blocky but I don't blame Netflix for that.
 
i haven't owned a nice HD tv before so i wasn't sure what to expect, smart ass.

i can live with it just fine, i'm not hard to please. i just didn't know if there was a setting i had off because some parts are pretty blurry.
 
slightlyhuman said:
i haven't owned a nice HD tv before so i wasn't sure what to expect, smart ass.

i can live with it just fine, i'm not hard to please. i just didn't know if there was a setting i had off because some parts are pretty blurry.
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I too have a 32" Dynex TV. It's a shittier TV really, so the SD scaling on it is terrible. HD content looks pretty awesome, but I know exactly what you mean about things being blurry. That's what happens when you buy a low price TV... they have to cut corners some where and the SD scaling is just friggin awful.
 
Only the movies that are labeled as HD will be streamed at 720p or above. The rest are 480. I'm not sure whether they user progressive or interlaced for their 480 streams.
 
DaveSimmons said:
480p from Netflix looks decent on my 50" 1080p Samsung DLP whether it's my 360 or PS3 that is doing the playing.

Once in a while my Comcast network connection (or something in between me and the Netflix servers) gets slow enough that the picture gets blocky but I don't blame Netflix for that.
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This. If 480p video looks like shit it's because of a shitty Internet connection or a shitty TV.
 
mugs said:
This. If 480p video looks like shit it's because of a shitty Internet connection or a shitty TV.
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Not true. There are quite a few movies that the quality is substantially less than the rest of the movies in 480p. Why do you think that you get an email from Netflix every so often asking "How was the quality of <insert movie here>?" It sure isn't because the quality is exactly the same on all of their movies.
 
Standard definition TV shows and movies don't look all that good after you get used to hi-def content on a big screen TV. I'm not sure how bad yours looks but I stream netflix to my 46-inch Samsung LN46A650 1080P set and the std definition stuff looks a bit blurry but the HD movies look pretty good, not as good a bluray disks.
 
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