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Old 26-05-2011, 10:55   #63
mattysouthall
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Re: BBC iPlayer goes HD, time to drop STM

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Originally Posted by |Kippa| View Post
It has been a long time since I watched iplayer on the internet. I just watched last nights Newsnight on iplayer early this morning. Is it me or have they increased the bitrate of their encodes. I remember watching the iplayer tv shows a long time ago and remember seeing a lot of blocking due to which arguably was a bitrate starved video encode. When I watched the program this morning upscaled to fullscreen there seemed to be no visible blocking what so ever.
BBC are changing all there encoding yes, They have also introduced "BBC Radio HD" which is currently on only one of there stations, might be Radio 2 not sure. Im sure they will introduce this onto there Radio 1 soon, basically its just a much higher bitrate when listening to the Radio so you get that crystal clear HD-like sound.
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