NanoTech Entertainment Inc (NTEK)

[shajandr]

For anyone who still bleeves the crapola about 'secret sauce' and low-bandwidth 'lossless' (LOLOL!!!) streaming in 4K from UF - they need to real this entire thread - and that was without HDR and Dolby 5.1 which add a bunch to the needed signal bandwidth.

Czech ~OUTT this entire thread: http://forum.blu-ray.com/showthread.php?t=275454

"Ultraflix has a Flickr page were they show how are better they are then the competitors and I looked at the ones I have BDs of and I was shocked at how bad the 'better' Ultraflix image was. They were only like 720p but it was obvious all the film grain was scrubbed out and EE used."

"Ultralfix indeed looks quite horrible most of the time as they use a very agressive grain / noise reduction technology. I sent them a mail about this issue and that they were throwing away the chance to be a real alternative to Amazon and Netflix. Somebody who obviously was aware of this practice answered and said that this was a decision they made to save bandwidth."

"I don't understand why they haven't been sued for false advertising yet. There's a certain expectation of quality when something is advertised as being in 4K; to be delivered in less-than-Blu-ray quality is just straight up lying to the customer. It's not like this is some shitty free video website like YouTube, it's a paid service!"

"My only experience with the terminator Genesis was not a good one. Constant freezing forced me to change the Mbps speed. Dark scenes were a super blocky mess from compression artifacting and the audio was 2.1, day bright scenes looked good but that was it. I have ever credits that I'm waiting to use for when they launch hdr. God knows when that'll be."

"That press release is preposterous. I checked bandwidth and they did not even maintain 30 Mbps which would easily be possible with my connection, 40 Mbps, too. I would say their average streaming bitrate seemed to be closer to 15 Mbps even when using the highest speed and when I rented Forrest Gump (no preview) it looked horrible with massive degraining and sharpening. I cannot remember when I saw a Blu-ray that had such a nasty looking and unnatural picture so I asked for a refund and got it.

I will say though that from what I could gather their new previews give an accurate impression of what one will get from them and maybe with time they will improve, it is up to them. If they continue to produce the kind of quality that I have seen then I have a feeling that they won't be around for long as clearly there is no reason why the movies they offer in supposedly 4k quality should look like a**."

"YEP. Got to love how a company like this doesn't even understand the difference between Mbps and MBps. Or, are they REALLY trying to say that they can deliver "visually lossless" (wtf) 4K video with only 500 Kbps actual throughput? Good lord."