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Author Topic: playing HD content through MC with a 54mbps wifi  (Read 1345 times)

steveklein

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playing HD content through MC with a 54mbps wifi
« on: June 04, 2008, 04:23:38 pm »
I use 54mbit/sec wifi and am curious if I got a laptop with an HD-DVD drive, would i be able to stream HD-DVD movies over the network without it skipping?

Anyone tried this under these conditions?
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Osho

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Re: playing HD content through MC with a 54mbps wifi
« Reply #1 on: June 05, 2008, 01:56:33 am »
Short answer: no.

I believe with 54mbps wifi - your effective bandwidth is really less than half that. And HD-DVD or Blu-ray both require much higher bandwidth. I can barely play uncompressed DVD over 54mbps wifi.

You may try 802.11n which theoretically supports 300mbps. But, even that may not work as realistic bandwidth is significantly less.

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Re: playing HD content through MC with a 54mbps wifi
« Reply #2 on: June 06, 2008, 04:37:13 pm »
Osho is correct - there is a good link at Wikipedia outlining the data rates requried for the formats at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_high_definition_optical_disc_formats but basically you need:

DVD: 12M/Bits +
HD-DVD: 37M/Bits +
Blu-ray: 54M/Bits +

Nothing beats blue string for the reliable availability of bandwidth for streaming HD Content!

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