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Originally Posted by Tom W.M.
Ach, I feel stupid. I confused horizontal and vertical measurements. This makes me wonder why the video was representend as HD when I downloaded it. I'm confused :?.
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No worries, there's a lot to learn in this field. :-) Some people assume that anything above 720 x 480 is HD, but that's not always the case of course.
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Originally Posted by Tom W.M.
Incidentaly, I downloaded an HD WMV demo some time ago on another computer--like you said, slideshow. In this instance I assumed that the difference was due to Video LAN Client, which has consistently produced miracles with playback of hefty files.
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Highly compressed HD video takes more cycles to decompress - you pay for the smaller file size by needing more CPU/GPU power to decode it.
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