Blu ray.

Help and advise needed.I have just purchased a new computer monitor which according to the book is fully HD compliant, sounds great but" are there any net transmissions in HD? Do I need any special equipment or server connections to get them? I understand I need a blu ray DVD player to play or make discs in this format, is one available to fit into my moderm? Where does one buy movies in this format and are they expensive ? I understand they have a larger capacity than conventional ones, been reading the technical details, but haven't been able to find answers to the above . Can anyone help.?

A layman's answer to your questions, Val. I am happy to be corrected.

Most new well known brand monitors are capable of playing HD (high definition). I don't think anything (other than perhaps high spec games and some video eg YouTube) are "transmitted" on the internet in HD.

However, you can download HD video files and play them back (in HD). It is unlikely that you would have a fast enough internet connection to stream in HD.

Blu Ray is a standard, as is DVD - but they are not the same. A Blu Ray disc can hold about 5 times the data that a DVD can, so is therefore capable of showing far higher quality video playback than an HD DVD. You need a Blu Ray player (which has a different type of laser than DVD to read the data on the disc). Blu Ray players are either external ie much the same as a standard DVD player, or you can also get them to fit into your PC (not modem), at a much higher cost than an internal DVD burner/player.

Blu Ray discs are also generally much more expensive than DVDs.

Thanks for the reply Jack. I have also just bought a 42'' TV and am having the TrueMove transmissions in HD and the difference is enormous,. well worth the extra 300bht a month and I just wondered if I could get anything like that quality on my computer monitor. Apparently not, so won't worry, just seems pointless making monitors HD ready when the net isn't .

Blue ray movies at the best prices can be found here:
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Blu-ray-Movies- ... =293962011

trubrit wrote: just seems pointless making monitors HD ready when the net isn't .

The net is ready - just not where you are. Nor is 3G available in LOS when the rest of the world, except I believe Somalia, is preparing for the 4th generation mobile network.

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trubrit wrote:Help and advise needed.I have just purchased a new computer monitor which according to the book is fully HD compliant, sounds great but" are there any net transmissions in HD? Do I need any special equipment or server connections to get them? I understand I need a blu ray DVD player to play or make discs in this format, is one available to fit into my moderm? Where does one buy movies in this format and are they expensive ? I understand they have a larger capacity than conventional ones, been reading the technical details, but haven't been able to find answers to the above . Can anyone help.?

HD comes in three flavors: 720p,1080i, and 1080p. When used as a computer monitor, only the 1080p is useful with a big monitor. The 720p panels are usually 1344x768 pixels. However, all HDTV broadcasts are 720p or 1080i, NOT 1080p. For broadcast, 720p is preferable to 1080i because it has 720 lined non-interlaced, as opposed to 540 lines interlaced. 1080p is better, since it will have at least 1080 lines (vertical pixels), but there are no BROADCAST signals at that resolution. BluRay is 1080p.

All this 'fully HD compliant' lingo means very little - you need to know the pixel resolution, at least for a computer monitor. Only 720 (or 768) lines looks TERRIBLE on a computer monitor at normal viewing distances, although OK for video at longer distances.

How many pixels ???x??? is it?

You can download blue-ray quality movies from places like www.isohunt.com using the Utorrent client

They are normally about a 4-9GB download for each movie though and are normally a mkv file or mp4 file rather than an avi file

As Gaz says, plenty of places to get at high quality movies on the net - free.
As others have said or implied it is really necessary to download the movie & then watch rather than 'watch while downloading' unless you have an excellent internet connection speed.
Most newish TVs that operate in HD mode have a PC connection on them - so you can watch your downloaded HD movie directly onto your new 42" TV, directly from your PC with no need to download to a DVD of any variety. A 1 terrabit external hard drive for your PC will cost you about 2,000 baht in the Complex. You can store a few movies in HD on one of those...

Val, this thread has further information on HD, which may be of interest to you.

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