Poor quality picture on BBCi player

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Bat-man

07-03-2011

Originally Posted by z80dan:
“O2 are throttling iPlayer traffic at peak hours (that's 4pm to 12am) on some of their broadband packages - bound to have an effect on quality. Note that this applies to the "new" packages O2 offer (basic, all-rounder etc.) - their older premium/pro packages are not throttled.....yet!”

I had the same problem with Orange.
Changed to TalkTalk on their LLU exchange in Lincoln.
I now never get less than 18Meg connection (usually around 20Meg.)
What a difference!

2Bdecided

07-03-2011

Originally Posted by qslikely:
“This is all very odd - I stand by my original comments here - the picture quality I'm getting on the standard setting could not in any way be described as cloudy or not sharp. Maybe this implies that my set-up is so bad that I can't see the difference, but I do see large screen HD quite often, and I'm happy that the difference is not massive. Family & friends have all been impressed by the quality of iPlayer on the tv too. Guess it's down to the fact that everyone's end experience is the product of a large number of technical variables.”

Humax Foxsat HDR. SCART RGB. 28" Panasonic 16x9 SD 50Hz CRT. Plusnet. Slowest connection seen: 3.7Mbps. Fastest connection seen: 8.9Mbps.

At a guess, the "standard" version looks something like 320x240 with a low-ish bitrate, upscaled in quite a soft way by the box. (not much blockiness - just blurred).

The "HQ" version looks something like SD with a low-ish bitrate.

I have had an HDTV connected. The same applies - though of course real broadcast HD then looks far far sharper than any of the above.

Cheers,
David.

qslikely

07-03-2011

Hi David - concluded that me & the family must be pretty cheap to keep - but grateful that our 50p eyesight is hiding the 'awful, cloudy, blurry' picture quality from us. Just think of the excitement we have to come when we convert from gas . . .

howard h

08-03-2011

I've just bought LG32490, and also have the Humax FoxsatHDR.

i-player from the Humax provided a clear picture on "high", clear enough to be indistinguishable from an ordinary SD picture, but it was slow to navigate.
i-player from the LG TV is, IMO, a slightly inferior picture, but has a faster response time.

Both are connected to a TG (Thomson) router by cable, and I am getting 3 to 3.5Mb speed.

GaseousClay

08-03-2011

Originally Posted by howard h:
“i-player from the LG TV is, IMO, a slightly inferior picture, but has a faster response time.”

LG tvs don't have iplayer

tv-Addict

08-03-2011

Originally Posted by GaseousClay:
“ LG tvs don't have iplayer”

Mine does! LG50PK590
(note this is not a Freesat TV - it is an app in the Networking menu)

It plays iPlayer HD too.

howard h

08-03-2011

Originally Posted by tv-Addict:
“Mine does! LG50PK590
(note this is not a Freesat TV - it is an app in the Networking menu)

It plays iPlayer HD too.”

Mine too - 32LG490. It's a Freesat HD effort which connects to the router allowing access to iplayer, youtube, google maps and other stuff (but not emails - yet??) which is rendering my Humax Foxsat rather less useful

- apart from the recording and all the other stuff you can't get on freeview.

Bat-man

08-03-2011

Originally Posted by tv-Addict:
“Mine does! LG50PK590
(note this is not a Freesat TV - it is an app in the Networking menu)

It plays iPlayer HD too.”

Don't you mean iPlayer HQ?

2Bdecided

09-03-2011

Originally Posted by Bat-man:
“Don't you mean iPlayer HQ?”

No, several connected TVs give access to HD via their iPlayer "app".

Cheers,
David.

tv-Addict

09-03-2011

Originally Posted by 2Bdecided:
“No, several connected TVs give access to HD via their iPlayer "app".

Cheers,
David.”

Yup - it's definitely the 720p stream.

You get options of Standard or HQ for SD programmes
and a link to the HD version when available.

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