BBC Iplayer HD

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just finally been able to use iplayer in hd without it buffering and i have to say its horrid. is the 720 stream as high as it goes and if sow how the hell do they get away calling it hd when its obviously not :confused:
 
720 is still technically classed as HD, but it's really more like MD (medium definition) since 1080 became the real 'full' HD

I was surprised recently to see they still make TVs, of a fairly large size, that are only 720!
 
true 720 is classed as hd but this doesnt even match up to youtube 720. hence im rather confused how they class it/get away with it.
 
GAC said:
true 720 is classed as hd but this doesnt even match up to youtube 720. hence im rather confused how they class it/get away with it.
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Something being 'HD' doesn't guarantee quality, it is just an indication of the resolution.
 
Klo said:
Something being 'HD' doesn't guarantee quality, it is just an indication of the resolution.
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too true it seem's just guess the bbc has run to the first codec without actually thinking about what it does. netflix uses less bandwidth and looks a hell of a lot better.
 
It doesn't look at good as it used to. They dropped the bitrate from 3.5Mb/s to 2.8Mb/s a while back.
 
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KIA said:
It doesn't look at good as it used to. They dropped the bitrate from 3.5Mb/s to 2.8Mb/s a while back.
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The video guy on the Giant Bombcast is always moaning about things being called "HD" or "4K" without any regard to the fact that the bitrate is like 16Kb/week.
 
just checking out the new setup and currently playing their HD stream 720P and in the info window its running at 2800kbps.

so seems they have cut the overhead a little and does seem to look a little sharper. maybe they have finally worked out what they are doing.
 
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