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It won’t be that bad. STBs from Comcast over the past few years support 1080p and the ones released over the past year support 4K. Also most newer Android TV b
by _cerv 8y ago
It won’t be that bad.
STBs from Comcast over the past few years support 1080p and the ones released over the past year support 4K. Also most newer Android TV based STBs support 4k. You’re probably saying “yeah, but the content doesn’t”, oh, but it does.
Companies like Comcast and OTT providers like DirectTV Now support 4K linear broadcast as most transcoders in the past five years support 4K streams and most broadcasters are supplying these providers with 4K streams. Even the recent move to HVEC is making these providers rencode their VOD libraries and titles are being rencoded at 4K.
The transition to 8k won’t be as bad when people had 1080p TVs with 480 content.
- lawnchair_larry 8y agoComcast sends everything to the home as 720p, regardless of what the box can do.
- _cerv 8y agoThis is false. Some channels in some markets may be at 720p and some older STBs top out at 1080i, but recent boxes like the XG1, any boxes that are IP, like the Xi series, and all of their apps take top bitrate profiles, so channels like your local affiliates or ESPN are received at least 1080p.
- mrpippy 8y agoEither that or 1080i, depending on the channel. Disney/ABC/ESPN networks all use 720p, as do Fox networks. CBS/NBC and all their networks produce in 1080i. There may be some 4K or 1080p on-demand or special event content (i.e. Olympics), but it is very rare.
- lawnchair_larry 8y agoCBS/NBC get converted to 720p by comcast before you see it.
- _cerv 8y agoThis is still not true. I’ve personally worked on some Of these transcoders, unless your affiliate has something running on a Pentium 4 in their back closet from 2003, they’re not broadcasting something that is down converted.
- lawnchair_larry 8y agoThere are complaints all over their forums about this and CS agents confirming it. They started to do it about a year ago. Also, it’s very obvious when watching. https://forums.xfinity.com/t5/Non-X1-Service/1080i-channels-are-being-changed-to-720p60-channels/m-p/2783308/highlight/true#M183323 https://forums.xfinity.com/t5/Non-X1-Service/1080i-channels-...
- _cerv 8y agoWith the exception of local access, over seas channels, and some really small and locally produced content for local affiliates, it’s 1080p. A lot of companies transitioned from 720/1080i in 2012-13. If you have an older STB, you might be seeing content scales down. Fox’s animation I thought was produced in 720 but broadcasted in 1080i, you see that with Cartoon Network and Nickelodeon.