Amazon online video - SD or HD

[dcmidnight]

Never having bought videos before from them on a tablet - will there be a difference in video quality between the two? If you try to buy something in HD it warns you that it will not play in HD on this tablet - which I get. But will it look any better?

Anyone know the approximate file size difference?

 

[anon(392870)]

Hmmmm, wish I knew the answer to this too. I'm at work so I can't test this out yet, but if you have Prime and therefore get free Prime Instant Videos try the Nova programs and see for yourself:

The Fabric of the Cosmos (SD)
The Fabric of the Cosmos (HD)

I plan on testing this out myself later tonight and I'll post screenshots.

 

[anon(392870)]

Update on this: browsing through the Kindle Fire - Video portion the HD option for Nova didn't even show up. I'm going to try to get to it another way within the next day or two and see.

 

[dcmidnight]

I downloaded a couple of tv episodes in SD - they look pretty good. 45 minute show takes up @ 200MB in SD.

 

[dcmidnight]

Downloaded another episode in HD. Appears to be moderately better but not a ton better. Still 200MB for a 45 minute episode.

 

[anon(392870)]

Downloaded another episode in HD. Appears to be moderately better but not a ton better. Still 200MB for a 45 minute episode.

Are they showing up browsing on your fire, or are you doing it online?

 

[dcmidnight]

No, episodes browsed/purchased through the Amazon store on the Fire, downloaded to the Fire.

I wish I knew the video settings though so I could rip my DVDs in the same resolution - the one I'm using now gets a 2 hour movie to 1GB which is still pretty big file size.

 

[anon(392870)]

No, episodes browsed/purchased through the Amazon store on the Fire, downloaded to the Fire.

I wish I knew the video settings though so I could rip my DVDs in the same resolution - the one I'm using now gets a 2 hour movie to 1GB which is still pretty big file size.

Interesting... when I looked for a program I knew was in HD (Nova, above) - I only came across the SD version. I'll have to play around with this a bit more.

 

[dcmidnight]

It may only come up in SD as far as the listing goes but click the link near where it says "More Purchase Options" - or something like that. Two choices *should* come up and one will be the HD version. Not 100% sure though for that particular program.