ncarver wrote:
dcb917 wrote:
The Roku 3 streams at 1080 over 5ghz N
Statements like this are made all the time on this forum (and elsewhere) but are quite worthless. Being “1080” does not define the quality of the video nor the difficulty of streaming it. What we need to know is the bitrate! If you don’t understand the difference between resolution/lines and bitrate/compression/quality, do some reading. Anyone can stream “1080 video” over even “b” Wifi if it has been compressed enough. What many of us want, though, is to be able to stream Blu-ray quality, 40+Mbps video. Good luck with that over Wifi. I couldn’t do it with “n” Wifi and directional antennas, and 5ghz Wifi has even worse range/penetration.
The WD spec web page for this device does not contain the word bitrate anywhere. Shame on them! How dare they not differ to your superior intellect and acknowledge that "What we need to know is the bitrate! "
I don’t have easy access to a 40+ bitrate file but I did try one that is 29.92. Streams fine over wifi on the Roku3 / plex, stuttered a bit on the WD which makes sense given that it is N 2.4 ghz only.