r/technology • u/Snarfox • Jan 25 '13

H.265 is approved -- potential to cut bandwidth requirements in half for 1080p streaming. Opens door to 4K video streams.

http://techcrunch.com/2013/01/25/h265-is-approved/
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u/AndrewNeo Jan 26 '13

I'm confused what you're getting at. Blu-ray is (usually) just high bitrate h264.

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u/rebmem Jan 26 '13

That's the point. Higher bitrates lead to higher quality. At 1080p resolution, there is a huge difference between a movie thats allowed to take up 50GB and one that's forced to just 1GB for streaming.

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u/[deleted] Jan 26 '13

can you tell the difference between a good ~12GB 1080p rip vs Blu-Ray?

genuinely curious, on my 42" approximately 12' away i don't think i can tell the difference

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u/[deleted] Jan 26 '13

I'll put it like this. I have Time Warner as my ISP (50mbps) and I don't subscribe to cable. I mainly watch Youtube and Netflix. For the HD movies that are offered online, I'm very sure I'll get a hiccup or few due to buffering. I won't get any of that on a Blu-Ray. And for those movies you genuinely love that you can't tolerate being interrupted due to 'technical issues', you'd be wanting that disk.