This has been bugging me for some time, and because I've found nothing on the web related to this, I wanted to ask here.
The picture quality of iTunes movie rentals is really crappy. More specifically, movies are very pixellated/blocky. Not every movie, but the majority it seems. Its as if the images are stretched...but they aren't (this is visible both in normal size and fullscreen mode). This is most noticeable on movie texts/vector images (i.e. credits/logos), but also on normal video to a lesser extent (if you look closely). Has anyone else noticed this?
If the movies weren't 1.2-1.6 GB in size, this wouldn't be an issue, but because they are, and because rentals cost as much as a DVD rental at blockbuster, this is just not acceptable. This isn't a rant about price so much as frustration about the quality
Edit: This has something to do with smoothing not being turned on in iTunes. After logging out and back in, and viewing the movie in iTunes again, smoothing is back on and it looks great. I'm not sure how to explain this, but obviously something to do with picture processing in OSX/iTunes is messing up randomly :/
Example screenshot (actual movie size):
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The picture quality of iTunes movie rentals is really crappy. More specifically, movies are very pixellated/blocky. Not every movie, but the majority it seems. Its as if the images are stretched...but they aren't (this is visible both in normal size and fullscreen mode). This is most noticeable on movie texts/vector images (i.e. credits/logos), but also on normal video to a lesser extent (if you look closely). Has anyone else noticed this?
If the movies weren't 1.2-1.6 GB in size, this wouldn't be an issue, but because they are, and because rentals cost as much as a DVD rental at blockbuster, this is just not acceptable. This isn't a rant about price so much as frustration about the quality
Edit: This has something to do with smoothing not being turned on in iTunes. After logging out and back in, and viewing the movie in iTunes again, smoothing is back on and it looks great. I'm not sure how to explain this, but obviously something to do with picture processing in OSX/iTunes is messing up randomly :/
Example screenshot (actual movie size):
