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Election night viewing

how many screens is too many? (April 2015)

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LL
London Lite Founding member
noggin posted:
London Lite posted:
thegeek posted:
Oh, so it is. And in HD, too. Now which is best: SD from a Sky box or HD via a Chromecast with occasional jitter...


I use my Smart TV browser with no judder with 1080i HD.


What's your source of 1080i in your Smart TV browser - and what deinterlacing is it doing?

I'm not aware of many sources of 1080i content that a Smart TV can access (iPlayer is usually 720/25p on Smart TVs in their "Smart" mode - though non-Connected Red Button iPlayer on some platforms is 1080i - but that is outside the browser and tied to the home channel's frame rate usually)

I guess if you are using a Sat>IP server that might be 1080i in a browser, as would a TV Headend stream if you are accessing that. The stuff that is produced by broadcasters for online streaming (Netflix, ITV Player, iPlayer etc.) is usually 720p or 1080p, not 1080i.


YouTube through the LG browser (which is based on Chrome) can be changed to 1080i, although the default is 576i. Netflix and Amazon Instant Video is almost certainly 1080p through the LG apps.
DO
dosxuk
All YouTube content is progressive, and isn't available in a 576 format either, so not really sure what your TV is doing.
NG
noggin Founding member
London Lite posted:
noggin posted:
London Lite posted:
thegeek posted:
Oh, so it is. And in HD, too. Now which is best: SD from a Sky box or HD via a Chromecast with occasional jitter...


I use my Smart TV browser with no judder with 1080i HD.


What's your source of 1080i in your Smart TV browser - and what deinterlacing is it doing?

I'm not aware of many sources of 1080i content that a Smart TV can access (iPlayer is usually 720/25p on Smart TVs in their "Smart" mode - though non-Connected Red Button iPlayer on some platforms is 1080i - but that is outside the browser and tied to the home channel's frame rate usually)

I guess if you are using a Sat>IP server that might be 1080i in a browser, as would a TV Headend stream if you are accessing that. The stuff that is produced by broadcasters for online streaming (Netflix, ITV Player, iPlayer etc.) is usually 720p or 1080p, not 1080i.


YouTube through the LG browser (which is based on Chrome) can be changed to 1080i, although the default is 576i. Netflix and Amazon Instant Video is almost certainly 1080p through the LG apps.


Are you sure that isn't just the output format you are viewing it in - rather than the source format? They are two very different things.

It's very easy to watch 480p, 720p, 1080p etc. at 1080i or 576i (my Samsung Smart Blu-ray player will do that - though I run it at 1080p). However that isn't the same as the browser playing 1080i or 576i content - it's playing content at 1080i or 576i - which is a totally different thing...

YouTube doesn't stream, to the best of my knowledge, any interlaced content - it only works in the progressive domain. (There is now 50p and 60p content, so it isn't limited to 24/25/30p stuff now - but this is all progressive not interlaced)
GE
thegeek Founding member
Oh, there's a thing. VLC can generate its own mosaic. Shame the howto is a little bit obtuse and the web wizard doesn't appear to work, but I've got a few days to see what I can come up with...

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