[JPL]

I definitely find it a lot softer, I did say on nother thread that I work with HD material everyday so I may be more critical but if it's the same feed as your PC draws and the same rate then the bit rate simply isn't good enough to fill a 40 inch sreen.
When my iPhone conects with the iPlayer, the servers know that it's a phone and sends the appropriate version at the appropriate bitrate, surely it wouldn't be too hard for the BBC to do something similar for Tivo, a specific version