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Old 26-07-2014, 11:10   #10
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Re: Trial a TiVo?
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Originally Posted by steveh View Post
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.

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TiVo was installed yesterday morning, and this is really the one big bugbear unfortunately. We watched 2 episodes of Eastenders in HD-Catchup, and actually it didn't seem much better than SD.

I'm not sure whether it's the resolution or what.. but it seemed to have a "cinematic" feel to it and certainly wasn't what I'd call broadcast quality. Think I'll need to keep on experimenting and trying other BBC shows that are in SD & HD - I certainly can't fault the SD quality so far.
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