Superb 1080p rental quality on ATV 3

Just rented and watched Hugo in 1080p on the new ATV 3, and I'm so impressed with the quality. Really smooth and detailed video, fantastic colour and great audio as well. It's not as good as the best Bluray output but it's not that far away and it was ready to play in 5 seconds on my 11mb broadband. Not sure how Apple have done this but it works so well.
Photos now look excellent too and I'm sure iMovie will soon have and a new ATV 3 export option.
I'd say it's well worth selling on your ATV 2 and getting the new model.

Nat The Gooner wrote:
I think playback is smoother too, you can tell there's more power running the new model.
I still can't decide wether to continue buying the occasional Bluray or just go with iTunes now.
It all depends what you can buy from iTunes I suppose.
There's an absolute dearth of 1080p or 720p HD to buy in UK from itunes store, at least in terms of movies.
AC

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the_beev wrote:
I'm a little confused about resolution and scaling. Currently I run my ATV through a projector which has a native resolution of 1280x720. As this exactly matches the ATV, I get a lovely picture.
I'm thinking of changing my projector for a plasma TV. Many plasma TVs are coming out in 1080i, which I think is more than I need as I will only be using it for ATV and as a 2nd monitor for my MBP. I'm also concerned about loss of image quality due to the upscaling from 720p. I'd rather get a TV that is 720p native, like my projector. However, this doesn't seem to be so simple. I've looked at a few TVs which claim to be 720p, yet all of them have a resolution of 1024x768. I understand there may be some around which are 1280x720, but all the ones within my budget seem to be 1024x768.
I have an older Panasonic with a 1024x576 panel it's HD ready and accepts up to 1080p signals. I have a newer full 1080p Panasonic full 1920x1080 panel.
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The older one has picture quality that blows the other out of the water, but the main reason is I mainly watch SD stuff - I don't have an awful lot of commercial HD stuff though.
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I would like to know how this different resolution is likely to affect my picture quality with ATV. I can see that 48 pixels can easily be lopped off to match 720, but what about the horizontal? Surely 1280 cannot be easily converted into 1024, at least not without a detrimental effect on picture quality?
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AC
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