Unlimited Video Streaming from T-Mobile with a catch

More gimmicks to try to lure customers.
480p seriously.

 

Wow u r picky
480p is fine
Full HD is a waste of data, particularly if you have to pay for all your data
This deal could be good if you run where it can be streamed most of the time

 

Enjoy the gimmicks.
Just stay east of I35 except major cities,and it'll be great.
Just look at the map.
Zoom in though, cause it says coverage then tells you partner in most of Nebraska and Wyoming for example.
It says We are not responsible for the performance of our service partners network.

 

Old square tube tv was 480x480p. DVD is 576x720p.... or some of the older dvd resolutions were 504x720p. Those are the ones that never filled the top to bottom.

I have. 17.3" screen on my laptop.. I like to watch old shows like Mash and Kojack and they are not wide screen. Dont really see much difference. Even with the 17.3" screen.. you can tell the difference with anything under 720p if the video quality has been reduced.

But in action movies etc I run an hdmi cable out of the laptop to a 32" Samsung 1080p TV in here... anything less than 720p and you notice the difference on a screen that size in a small space like this.

If you just plan to watch on your phone, tablet it probably wont really matter. If on a TV much will depend on the native screen resolution and how the image gets resized will determine how pixalated it looks.

I've been spoiled with 1080p TV for too long. I notice the difference.

Hurst

 

Actually those quoted resolutions are based off 25FPS. Which is not what region 1 dvds use. (North american dvds.) Ours are 720×480 @ 29.97 and tended to be interlaced. So it would e 480i (The resolution is based off the height not the width.) Normally there was some hardware on the dvd that would convert it to progressive or the resolution would have to be lowered.

720p 16:9 is 1280×720 progressively scanned
1080p 16:9 is 1920x1080 progressively scanned

But then again in reality encoding is really important also. A poorly encoded 1080p video can look worse then 480p any day of the week.

Not sure how tmobile is enforcing the 480p restriction. Are they intercepting the video and re encoding it? Or did netflix provide tmobile was a server with its movies (Which it does for standard Internet providers to limit load on internet backbones.) only encoded at 480p.

 

Tmobile has worst coverage of the 4 major carriers.

 

If you want tocstream it to your tv. Check to see if your phone has miracast and get a dongle for the tv its wireless you dont need wifi other than your phone to connect and if you have a data unlimited your good to go just make sure you have a charger near by cause streaming data and the miracast eats up some battery. Miracast is only about 30 to 40 bucks at best buy. Mine is made by microsoft and all you need is an hdmi and usb port on tv

 

Looks like one might have to disable binge on because YouTube might be being downgraded.


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