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jswinden · 12-24-2010, 03:54 PM

I'm a perfectionists and I do notice the degraded quality. Being a pretty fair amateur photographer, I can see detail that perhaps others don't. Off topic, but I also get rather upset when many of my U-Verse channels are only letterboxed, widescreen versions of shows originally produced for standard TV resolution. They merely interpolate the frames out to HD (1920 x 1080) and it looks like very old film that is about to deteriorate. So yes, it does make a difference and yes it matters to me that a device with a 1024px x 600px screen, a gorgeous screen BTW, cannot show videos in that actual size. I realize it is most likely a limitation of Android, and not a NC thing. But it also urks me that we have to convert nearly all videos just so they will play at all. We seldom have to do that for Windows or Mac computers, but almost every smaller device whether a smartphone, iPod/iPhone, Android tablet, etc. requires this. To me that is a huge gaping hole in any OS be it iOS4, Android, WebOS, etc.

Be that as it may, I love my NC, flaws and all! But the video experience definitely can be made much better all around, and I hope B&N does make it better.

12-24-2010, 03:54 PM	#27
jswinden Nameless Being	I'm a perfectionists and I do notice the degraded quality. Being a pretty fair amateur photographer, I can see detail that perhaps others don't. Off topic, but I also get rather upset when many of my U-Verse channels are only letterboxed, widescreen versions of shows originally produced for standard TV resolution. They merely interpolate the frames out to HD (1920 x 1080) and it looks like very old film that is about to deteriorate. So yes, it does make a difference and yes it matters to me that a device with a 1024px x 600px screen, a gorgeous screen BTW, cannot show videos in that actual size. I realize it is most likely a limitation of Android, and not a NC thing. But it also urks me that we have to convert nearly all videos just so they will play at all. We seldom have to do that for Windows or Mac computers, but almost every smaller device whether a smartphone, iPod/iPhone, Android tablet, etc. requires this. To me that is a huge gaping hole in any OS be it iOS4, Android, WebOS, etc. Be that as it may, I love my NC, flaws and all! But the video experience definitely can be made much better all around, and I hope B&N does make it better.