Is there an app or program that will let me watch freeview on my android tablet? I have the app filmon but that wants £150 a year to watch HD, are there any other options as SD does not look too good on a 10 inch tablet.
Originally Posted by khampson: “Is there an app or program that will let me watch freeview on my android tablet? I have the app filmon but that wants £150 a year to watch HD, are there any other options as SD does not look too good on a 10 inch tablet.
Thanks”
Could it be the display which is at fault? I've an iPad mini and my wife has an iPad, and watching TV via iPlayer gives brilliant pictures. I also watch some films via Youtube, and usually the picture quality is very good.
Originally Posted by jsmith99: “Could it be the display which is at fault? I've an iPad mini and my wife has an iPad, and watching TV via iPlayer gives brilliant pictures. I also watch some films via Youtube, and usually the picture quality is very good.”
iPlayer will be in HD.
That was my question to the OP: Can he just use iPlayer, ITV Player, All4 etc.
Originally Posted by oilman: “Should be fine - I don't think any of the channels other than the big four terrestrial even do hd on freeview.”
HD channels on freeview;
BBC One HD
BBC Two HD
ITV HD
Channel 4 HD
BBC Three HD
BBC Four HD
BBC News HD
Al Jazeera English HD
Channel 4+1 HD
4seven HD
QVC +1 HD
QVC Beauty HD
CBBC HD
CBeebies HD
Originally Posted by lettice: “HD channels on freeview;
BBC One HD
BBC Two HD
ITV HD
Channel 4 HD
BBC Three HD
BBC Four HD
BBC News HD
Al Jazeera English HD
Channel 4+1 HD
4seven HD
QVC +1 HD
QVC Beauty HD
CBBC HD
CBeebies HD”
Originally Posted by jsmith99: “Will it? I hadn't realised that. I'd actually prefer SD, to reduce the broadband usage.
But I doubt whether 1950s b/w films on Youtube would be, and they're very sharp.”
It depends on which version of iplayer you have. When HD is available (720p25) the SD version (576i) is also available. The Android version of iplayer on my Nexus 7 is only SD.
Originally Posted by grahamlthompson: “It depends on which version of iplayer you have. When HD is available (720p25) the SD version (576i) is also available. The Android version of iplayer on my Nexus 7 is only SD.”
Hang on 720 is SD (dvd quality). Sometimes, Freeview uses lower than SD (576).
Older SD freeview boxes could handle 576 (itv typically) or 720 (bbc typically)
Originally Posted by oilman: “Hang on 720 is SD (dvd quality). Sometimes, Freeview uses lower than SD (576).
Older SD freeview boxes could handle 576 (itv typically) or 720 (bbc typically)
HD is 1080, and only more modern boxes handle HD.”
Conversely, SD TV is defined as not being able to handle 1080 or later standards.
Semantics I guess, as virtually all tvs now are hd compatible or hd ready
Originally Posted by oilman: “Hang on 720 is SD (dvd quality). Sometimes, Freeview uses lower than SD (576).
Older SD freeview boxes could handle 576 (itv typically) or 720 (bbc typically)
HD is 1080, and only more modern boxes handle HD.”
SD is based on the old 625 line UHF standard. Which uses about 50 lines for none picture information, hence the 576 figure.
DVD has a horizontal resolution of 720 pixels, is this perhaps what you are thinking of?
