watching Sunday Night Football on NBCSports.com… using Chrome browser and powered by Microsoft Silverlight. It claims to stream in HD… but, it sure doesn’t look very good for HD. In fact, in full screen mode, it looks a little better than Tecmo Bowl on the NES.
“HD” used to mean something, now it’s a term that’s losing all communicative information.
I’ve long been in favor of having HD mean nothing less than a resolution of 720. Netflix’s “HD” streaming is barely above DVD quality - while technically a higher definition than SD (I believe they come in at around 500 or 525 lines of resolution - DVD is 480) nowhere near what we expect from an HD stream.
Yes, there’s more to it than just definition - bitrate and codec are the other big ones - it constantly pisses me off to shitty “HD” streams that would be embarrassed by any SD channel on cable.
Source: rafimama
