I created a simple queue of 2megs for my Xbox and then watched (what I could tolerate) of a Jackass movie, Billy Madison and Eraser (all years old) and they looked just fine.
Josh Luthman Office: 937-552-2340 Direct: 937-552-2343 1100 Wayne St Suite 1337 Troy, OH 45373 Those who don't understand UNIX are condemned to reinvent it, poorly. --- Henry Spencer On Fri, Nov 28, 2008 at 12:32 PM, Brad Belton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > It could be the movie. I have noticed some movies look much worse than > others even at the highest bandwidth rating. I downloaded Fred Claus and > it > came down at about 17Mbps for the first few minutes and then stabilized > with > 4-5Mbps bursts of traffic every couple minutes through the movie. The > picture on my 50" plasma was as good as anything else I've watched on it. > > I then downloaded something else (don't remember what it was) and the > picture was much worse. > > YMMV.... > > > Brad > > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On > Behalf Of Matt > Sent: Friday, November 28, 2008 11:23 AM > To: WISPA General List > Subject: Re: [WISPA] NetFlix Streaming Bandwidth Information > > > In case you did not know, recently NetFlix and Microsoft teamed up to > > provide video on-demand services to all of the XBox 360 users. Not only > > can you start one of 12,000 videos in a matter of seconds on your > > computer, but you can also do this right on your Xbox 360, bringing it > > mainstream for many who have never used it. Not to mention the super > > low cost of basically $9 bucks a month! > > Went out and bought me an XBOX 360 elite couple days ago just to check > this out. Shame since I already have a PS3 I am very happy with and > it has bluray. Plus, online play is free with PS3. Anyway, I already > had a Netflix account so I linked it with my new Live account. On a > 2mbps connection with a 50" HDTV it looks very bad. Regular DVD's are > WAY better. I did not take the time to try higher bandwidth though I > was in a hurry. > > Matt > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- > ---- > WISPA Wants You! Join today! > http://signup.wispa.org/ > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- > ---- > > WISPA Wireless List: wireless@wispa.org > > Subscribe/Unsubscribe: > http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless > > Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/ > > > > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > WISPA Wants You! Join today! > http://signup.wispa.org/ > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > WISPA Wireless List: wireless@wispa.org > > Subscribe/Unsubscribe: > http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless > > Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/ > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- WISPA Wants You! Join today! http://signup.wispa.org/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- WISPA Wireless List: wireless@wispa.org Subscribe/Unsubscribe: http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/
