Thread: Barnes & Noble To Take On Amazon (Again) With A New 8GB Nook Tablet
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Old 03-02-2012, 10:34 PM   #33
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Originally Posted by afv011 View Post
It's just a matter of personal preference. For some, the $50 extra of the NT are worth it, for others, it isn't. I personally find the extra memory, extra storage, SD card support and HD Netflix worth the $50.
HD netflix? The nook doesn't support HD video.

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Instead, he said, the Nook Tablet really does do something useful: it accepts high-definition streams from Netflix, and converts its quality downward to fit the Nook’s 1024-by-600-pixel screen. It’s no longer high definition — but it’s better resolution than what you’d get from its rival, the Amazon’s Kindle Fire. The Fire starts with Netflix’s standard-definition video feed, and blows it up to fit its 1024-by-600-pixel screen.
http://pogue.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/...-is-corrected/

I don't see the point in wasting bandwith streaming HD just so it can down convert the video back to SD. Netflix looks great on the Kindle Fire.
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