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Old 22-04-2009, 22:39   #7
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Re: BBC iPlayer goes HD, time to drop STM

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Originally Posted by cook1984 View Post
Increase that to 2 hours viewing and anyone on 10 meg will have their connection decimated to unwatchable speeds.[/
No they won't.

The STM for 10Mbit drops the download speed to 2.5Mbit. The HQ Streams on the iPlayer are 1.5Mbit

So once the BB M upgrade to 10Mbit completes only BB S will have any issues (and that service isn't for Video watching anyway)

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It's even worse for HD programs. Users on M/L (2 meg or 10 meg) can't even watch a single 1 hour program. Users on XL can watch for about 1:40 before being cut off.
XL STM drops the download down to 5Mbit - the HD streams are 3.5Mbit
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