Full (or true) HD is beautiful to watch, but really demanding for your computer. Unless you use an application that takes full advantage of your computers hardware - hardware acceleration - such as video card and/or the CPU's multimedia capabilities, you'll need a pretty powerful computer to render full HD without flickering. The major operating systems built-in players such as QuickTime for OSX and Media Player for Windows will in most cases have full HW-acceleration on their respective platform. Most open source players won't!

Most Windows users, will probably be able to play 1080p if the file is a wmv-file (encoded with any Microsoft supported codec such as VC-1 or older WMV-codecs), but not mpeg4. As we consider mpeg4 to be a better standard in most other aspects, we use this format as often as possible. Is this bad news for windows users? Not necessarily. There are three resolutions to this problem:

• You're lucky enough to have windows 7 installed on your computer with the latest version (12) of Windows Media Player, you'll also have full support and HW-acceleration for mpeg4 files encoded with h264.
• You have a powerful computer that think that HW-acceleration is for wimps, and just renders the video smoothly without whining. If Windows media player won't play the movie at all try one of the open source alternatives, for example VLC Player.
• If you have tried the full HD-version of an Ameibo movie and it fails miserably, contact us and we will create a lower resolution example for you!

Conversely, most OSX user will be able to play mpeg4 1080p-files just fine with QuickTime Player. You're in other words better of than Windows users this time! Consider this as a compensation for not being able to play our copy protected material (DRM)...

Also, there are some advanced set-top-boxes that can play HD-material without complaining. Example of this is TViX, Popcorn Hour. Although I think it does, I'm not sure if PS4 supports mpeg4 files...

/Adam AKA Col. Jessep

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