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Old 15-04-2011, 16:43   #1649
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Re: General TiVo Discussion Part 2

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Originally Posted by mkdr25 View Post
I'm concerned you've been able to notice a drop in iplayer quality. I'm looking forward to the extra content but one of the best things about V+ is the VOD stream quality, especially HD.

iplayer HD streams H.264 at 3200kbps. How does this compare to the MPEG2 stream of VOD from VM (if anyone has this info)?

Does it 'feel' like you're leaving the box environment and going online to play iplayer programming? or is the experience still quite integrated?

Sorry for all the questions!
you go into the iPlayer environment as you would find on any device but it's quick and you don't feel that you are 'leaving' virgin.

I didn't know what the bit rate was for online iPlayer but 3.2 Mb is simply not good enough to fill a 40inch screen a DVD (i appraciate that it's a differant codec) averages 5Mb

Unfortunately this isn't something Virgin can fix except complain to the BBC
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