Better Call Saul - Prequel to Breaking Bad
Discussion
On that note, and as the quality of the filming has been mentioned, I think there is a lot of technical wizardry going on.
BCS streaming looks absolutely stunning. The desert scene especially. I watched BB on Netflix, and it never looked so good. Maybe because I've got a 2.7mb internet connection on a good day...
I hesitated watching it on a 65 inch TV thinking it would be horribly pixellated (which at times BB was) but it instantly snapped to playing at 720 and kept at that bitrate for the whole programme. To be honest, it looked even better than that.
It's far and away better looking than anything I've streamed. I am thinking that when they are encoding things already filmed to be streamed, they can only do so much with the quality of the encoding.
It's almost as if as they knew from the start it was being filmed to stream primarily, the way they've done it is to maximise the viewing quality through streaming.
A sign of the times, and a sign of things to come?
BCS streaming looks absolutely stunning. The desert scene especially. I watched BB on Netflix, and it never looked so good. Maybe because I've got a 2.7mb internet connection on a good day...
I hesitated watching it on a 65 inch TV thinking it would be horribly pixellated (which at times BB was) but it instantly snapped to playing at 720 and kept at that bitrate for the whole programme. To be honest, it looked even better than that.
It's far and away better looking than anything I've streamed. I am thinking that when they are encoding things already filmed to be streamed, they can only do so much with the quality of the encoding.
It's almost as if as they knew from the start it was being filmed to stream primarily, the way they've done it is to maximise the viewing quality through streaming.
A sign of the times, and a sign of things to come?
hornetrider said:
Must admit as my first foray into NF I was amazed at the HD quality. I take it they are not all like that then 
Maybe it's me that's sensitive to it as a went from a 50 meg Virgin connection to being at the end of a rural BT line... 
The fact that they can stream HD over a 2.5 meg connection to me is astonishing. Breaking Bad would seem to flick between playing at 480 which looked worse than SD and 720. 720 looked totally watchable, but BCS is something else.
It's great for those with a slow connection as if more an more shows are being made by Netflix or Amazon prime and are made to stream in means they are not being left out.
As irony would have it though, just as the tech has caught up with my crap internet, they are fitting BT Infinity in my road in March...!
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0.5 Megabits per second - Required broadband connection speed
1.5 Megabits per second - Recommended broadband connection speed
3.0 Megabits per second - Recommended for SD quality
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hornetrider said:
Well, I signed up for Netflix just for this and I'm not disappointed, really good first two episodes. Interesting flash forward at the start of the first. For me Saul was one of the best characters in BB so I'm very pleased we've got this show.
Now to find something else on NF worth watching...
House of Cards. It's quite supetb. And refreshingly different visually and in tone to BCS. Now to find something else on NF worth watching...
enjoyed both of these first two eps.
half way through the first one the missus said "who was the guy with the 'tash in the opening scene in the donut bar...." nevermind dear.
loved the dialogue in the house with tuco and in the desert...on form from the word go.
I really laughed out loud at "and lest we forget, no one got hurt...."
roll on next week...
half way through the first one the missus said "who was the guy with the 'tash in the opening scene in the donut bar...." nevermind dear.
loved the dialogue in the house with tuco and in the desert...on form from the word go.
I really laughed out loud at "and lest we forget, no one got hurt...."
roll on next week...
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