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Is it possible to watch HD TV on android
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.
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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.
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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.
That was my question to the OP: Can he just use iPlayer, ITV Player, All4 etc. |
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iPlayer will be in HD.
That was my question to the OP: Can he just use iPlayer, ITV Player, All4 etc. |
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Are they apps?
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Should be fine - I don't think any of the channels other than the big four terrestrial even do hd 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 |
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iPlayer will be in HD..................
But I doubt whether 1950s b/w films on Youtube would be, and they're very sharp. |
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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 I can live without QVC in SD let alone HD! |
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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. |
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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.
Older SD freeview boxes could handle 576 (itv typically) or 720 (bbc typically) HD is 1080, and only more modern boxes handle HD. |
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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. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/720p |
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HD channels on freeview;
BBC One HD .... CBeebies HD |
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Semantics I guess, as virtually all tvs now are hd compatible or hd ready |
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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. DVD has a horizontal resolution of 720 pixels, is this perhaps what you are thinking of? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DVD-Video#Video_data But SD/HD is normally defined by the vertical resolution. Which on Freeview (and satellite) means 576 for SD and 1080 for HD. |
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