When playing a movie in hd on netflix wd tv live plus keeps changing resolution to 720x480. Other sites like hulu and movie files will play in hd . I have a 30mb connection and the latest firmware unit is connected to tv through component video and resolution is set at 1080i@60Hz. I have no problem playing netfix in hd on my pc. Unit is also using a wired network connection. I borrowed a sony smpn100 from a friend and it plays netflix fine in 1080 playing on hdmi and component. It seems to be a problem with the component part of the live +. I tried the live plus at my friends house it played netflix @1080 through hdmi but switched to 480 on component… Anyone else come across this problem? Any suggestions on how to fix this problem?
This is normal. It’s not a bug. NetFlix required WD to downscale component video to 480p.
It surprising that he gets 1080p on component, or is he getting 1080i? 1080p isn’t officially part of the original specification for component, but more and more manufacturers are supporting it now…
When Netflix is starting up, it checks to see if your display device has HDCP copy protection, if it does, then it will allow HD. If it does not detect copy protection, then it will downrez. Perhaps that is the problem. When I use Netflix with my WD Live Plus, the output stays at 1080i, however I am using the HDMI output, not component. I really don’t know what to expect with component. As Tony said, that may be normal with component.
Netflix HD only works via HDMI.
and doesn’t netflix only output 720p, not 1080?
repdetect wrote:
and doesn’t netflix only output 720p, not 1080?
Yes and no.
They announced a year and a half ago that NetFlix was upgrading to 1080p. But at that time, only about 6% of their available titles were even available in 720p. It has grown since then, but some things there’s no HD of any variety, some things are 720p only, and some things are available in 1080p to devices that will support it.
thanks
can anyone tell me of a title they have watched in 1080p from netflix?
as I suspected , 1080p from Netflix is an urban myth 
http://www.pcworld.com/article/235078/ti_chip_feature_to_help_unlock_netflix_1080p_videos.html
Well, it makes very little sense for TI to spend time and money developing a chip to decode 1080p streams for tablets if Netflix has no 1080p streams for the chip to unlock and decode. 
The problem with Android devices is that they were Spoofing Netflix and pretending to be approved devices… that’s why the new TI chip needed to be tested and approved for Netflix’s DRM.
But I fail to see how TI can be demonstrating their chip decoding Netflix 1080p in TI’s Blaze platform, if 1080p streams don’t exist.
What is far more likely is that almost nobody has a connection that passes Netflix’s testing for 1080p abilities… **bleep**, quite a few folks can’t even maintain the 720p requirements over their home connection. But, just because you’re incapable of receiving the stream, doesn’t make the stream a myth. PS3 users (with a sufficient sustained connection) have been getting 1080p for almost a year now.
I am on FIOS and typically have download speeds to betwen 12 and 15Mbps, so that is not the issue.
If Netflix requires speeds above15Mbps for 1080p , then no one will likely ever see1080p programming.
Why is it that no one can tell me of a title they have watched in 1080p on netflix? Can you?
Until then, netflix 1080p = urban myth.
I couldn’t care less about seeing anything on a handheld device other than text.
Do I need to type slower?
PS3 users can get 1080p streams all the time. It was the first device that Netflix allowed 1080p for last year. The streams exist, they’re not a myth.
I don’t know if Netflix allows 1080p streams to WD or not, yet, since I don’t pay for Netflix. Nobody else has chimed in here yet on which HD streams the WDTV’s receive.
If Netflix allows it (i.e. PS3, and who knows what else at this point), then you _ can _ watch 1080p. If Netflix doesn’t allow it, then you can’t.
Netflix is pretty quiet about it… they won’t say (as far as I can see) what devices are allowed to receive 1080p and what ones aren’t… they even retracted their announcement a year and a half ago that 1080p was coming. There are probably some devices that 1080p will never be available to.
I don’t really want to fight about it. Your question was if Netflix streams only in 720, and not 1080… you didn’t ask about which specific devices receive which streams. The answer remains, in terms of 1080p, that the PS3 can, for sure, and anything with TI’s new chip can, for sure. Other devices may, or may not, depending on Netflix.
I answered “yes and no”. Yes, they stream 1080p to PS3 and who-knows-what-else, and no, they only stream 720p to many other devices.
I’d guess, since no one came running to say WDTV can get 1080p, that Netflix won’t allow it at this point.
“do I need to type slower?”
That’s your call, but I would suggest that you read more carefully.
My question was:
can anyone tell me of a title they have watched in 1080p from netflix?
If you can’t answer my question with a title, no need to type at all.
I am already aware of everything you have said.
Unfortunately, there’s no way to know if a feed is 720p or 1080p. The HD icon in the Netflix browser can mean either one. There’s a remarkable lack of info online about what (if any) titles are available in 1080p. All the talk about PS3’s doing 1080p is about CAPABILITY, not CONTENT. There’s also articles that talk about NetFlix abandoning their plans to transfer their content into full HD.
So as far as I’m concerned, it’s all still vaporware… Regardless of the platform being used.
Thanks for a reply that addresses my question.
