PS3 HD movie downloads?

[pvapour]

is there any more news of this?

www.itwire.com.au/content/view/9727/532/

would be good to have an HD film waiting to be watched when you got home in the evening

[ThePassenger]

I've heard nowt personally. I seriously wouldn't hold your breath about it being feature films at HD levels; it'd take a few days to download (or longer depending on how they do it). So think more along the lines of 'selected' movie trailers and 'recording artists' work.

[articm]

ThePassenger said:

I've heard nowt personally. I seriously wouldn't hold your breath about it being feature films at HD levels; it'd take a few days to download (or longer depending on how they do it). So think more along the lines of 'selected' movie trailers and 'recording artists' work.

also, an HD movie is what, 20+gb , not gonna fit many on the HD

[mikef]

1 hour of 1920x1080p HD encoded with H.264 at 2Mbps takes around 1GB

(edited to correctly say that the Casino Royale trailer reports 15.8 Mbps)

Edited by mikef on Saturday 19th May 13:53

[pvapour]

mikef said:

1 hour of 1920x1080p HD encoded with H.264 at 2MBps (like the Casino Royale trailer) takes around 1GB

was wondering if they could encode on this platform, did'nt want to sound an idiot though so it is possible

can you plug an HD storage device straight into the USB connectors, you can get 400gb quite cheaply now.

[mikef]

You can certainly plug in a USB stick with your movies on it. Same goes for xbox 360, although I prefer the PS3 as you can copy stuff from device to device

[articm]

mikef said:

1 hour of 1920x1080p HD encoded with H.264 at 2MBps (like the Casino Royale trailer) takes around 1GB

Oh, didnt know that - watching Casino Royal on Blu Ray, PS3 says its a 20-25BMps feed

[pvapour]

going to try and download an HD movie on the PC this afternoon whilst out, then see if I can download it to the PS3 through the USB socket from my portable HD.

Probably cant, but i'll give it a go & let you know.

[mikef]

articm said:

mikef said:

1 hour of 1920x1080p HD encoded with H.264 at 2Mbps (like the Casino Royale trailer) takes around 1GB

Oh, didnt know that - watching Casino Royal on Blu Ray, PS3 says its a 20-25BMps feed

My bad - checked again and Quicktime reports the C R trailer download at 15.82 Mbps, which would make it 6.5GB an hour
That also explains why the Xbox 360 stutters - it's limted to 10Mbps, whereas the PS3 seems fine at 32Mbps

The lower figure I gave refers to the same clip down-sampled to the point of data loss, which is around 2 Mbps, but would require re-processing the files