Quote Originally Posted by randomizer View Post
I don't even see the buffering indicator so I don't know how much faster it is buffering than playing. However, I think it looks like rubbish for 1080p. It's just like the old 720p, but larger, and more bandwidth-heavy.
Yes, it looks like rubbish compared to a blu-ray disc @ 1080p running a full 30mbps... that much is clearly obvious. I never expected to get video as good as a blu-ray or even as good as a nicely encoded x264 Matroska movie.

For what it is (a compressed video made to stream to a wide range of broadband connections).... it looks pretty good.

But compared to a true 30mbps blu-ray disc, it's quite clear that the compression highly degrades the quality.

I'm currently downloading a 1080p blu-ray video clip from that same fireworks show so I have something to compare to. Depending on the size, I may host it on my server for forum members so they can see for themselves.