Comments on: The Hulu HD Bandwidth Equation http://connectedhome2go.com/2007/12/06/the-hulu-hd-bandwidth-equation/ A Motorola Blog on Video, Voice, Data, Wireless and more! Sun, 29 Apr 2012 05:14:55 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: The Changing Face of Concurrency « Media Experiences 2 Go http://connectedhome2go.com/2007/12/06/the-hulu-hd-bandwidth-equation/#comment-2734 Thu, 06 Mar 2008 17:21:47 +0000 http://connectedhome2go.com/2007/12/06/the-hulu-hd-bandwidth-equation/#comment-2734 [...] the data side, multimedia applications (P2P and otherwise) are raising the bandwidth rates consumers use for common tasks, making it much [...]

]]> By: Mari Silbey http://connectedhome2go.com/2007/12/06/the-hulu-hd-bandwidth-equation/#comment-2286 Wed, 12 Dec 2007 12:20:28 +0000 http://connectedhome2go.com/2007/12/06/the-hulu-hd-bandwidth-equation/#comment-2286 Very interesting… I’ll check it out.

And yes, point well taken about HD distinctions on a laptop screen.

]]> By: Glenn http://connectedhome2go.com/2007/12/06/the-hulu-hd-bandwidth-equation/#comment-2280 Wed, 12 Dec 2007 03:32:21 +0000 http://connectedhome2go.com/2007/12/06/the-hulu-hd-bandwidth-equation/#comment-2280 Hey Mari,

I did some quick back of the envelope calculations after watching some samples and can confirm that the hulu “HD” content appears to run around 2.5Mbps. However, I don’t think its actually HD.

If you look at http://www.adobe.com/products/hdvideo/hdgallery you’ll see they offer their trailers at 480p, 720p and 1080p. It looks like the 720p content is running around 5Mbps or so and the 1080p content (I suspect its really 1080i) is running around 9Mbps.

So the problem is likely worse than you think. Now whether you can tell the difference between 480p and 1080p on a 17″ laptop screen is perhaps debatable, and there is no question the 480p stuff looks very good.

Its certainly possible they’ll tune these setting lower as time goes by of course, the technology is very new…

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