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Originally Posted by japitts
I've always found the picture of the V+ HD CatchUp shows on our TV, better than HD-streaming over the interweb, but how does a TiVo in HD-iPlayer mode on a 32" TV compare?
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HD on iPlayer on the TiVo is I believe a 720i (50fps) or for some shows 720p (25fps) 3.2Mbps H.264 video + 192Kbps AAC audio stream. HD BBC shows via Virgin's own on-demand servers were I believe a 1080i (50fps) 20Mbps MPEG 2 video + MPEG layer 2 audio stream.
So on the TiVo it's using newer technology which gets more out of the same bandwidth, but still not quite to the quality it was before. On a 32" set at an average viewing distance you probably won't notice that much difference. However, there seems to often be congestion to the iPlayer servers from TiVo, especially at peak times, and it is less resilient than Netflix so you may get occasional buffering or be unable to view the HD versions of shows. I find I am more likely to record a show even when I know it will be on iPlayer because of this.
Except for Netflix, other on-demand content comes from Virgin's on-demand servers and is exactly the same as the V-HD or V+ boxes.
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Originally Posted by japitts
And series-stacking - I've always liked the concept of every episode being available until 7days after the final episode is screened, the new setup seems different. Am I right in thinking the availability of any program on TiVO OD will be exactly the same as the same program on whichever website it's being streamed from?
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That's correct. TiVo uses the standard BBC iPlayer infrastructure that works the same across devices. They're also soon increasing the time for shows on iPlayer to 30 days.