PQ on BBC Iplayer appalling

[admin_exported]

Hey

I was just watching crooked house on my PC, The PQ is great when its on the small screen, but when you put Full screen it is blotchy, no color ect.

The same goes for Sky player.

Is it me?

I would have thought it would have been the same as the TV show, but its so so bad, worse than VCR.

 

[bigboss]

Change your PC's screen resolution to highest possible setting. BBC iPlayer's PQ is quite good even on my 50-inch plasma.

 

[Anonymous]

I have one of those LG 22" 1080p Lcd/monitor things from richer sounds for 190.00 so should be more than enough

 

[bigboss]

Something's wrong with your settings. BBC iPlayer quality is very good. Is your broadband fast enough?

 

[John Duncan]

Yeah generally I find it's OK at its native size (particularly if the programme has an HD option), but if you start watching it full screen, at a normal distance from a PC screen, then it's probably going to look a bit pixellated...

 

[matengawhat]

i watched the restaurant the other night through bbc iplayer using a ps3 onto a 106 inch screen through a 1080p projector and to be honest was amazed at how good it was for an internet viewed programme - don't get me wrong it wasn't as good as standard broadcast but to say it had been stretched to that kind of size i wasn't put off and i'm pretty picky

 

[Anonymous]

Thats what I find so funny.

My PS3 is great and the iplayer has an amazing pic on my 42"

But on my tv upstairs its pixilated and dull and grainy, maybe I am sitting to close to the tv.

 

[Anonymous]

Hi the picture on my 50` kuro is very good I get the i player through freesat excellent

 

[Gazuk]

Watched the royle family last night on iplayer through freesat HDR and i was surprised how good the picture quality was and im impressed. So glad i dumped sky 12 months ago and have never looked back and freesat just keeps getting better with the promise of itv player and more hd channels.Bring it on!!

 

[Big Aura]

i think the High Quality option PQ is pretty good. Like poor quality SD broadcast, and it looks better on my Sony 40" than my 13.1" laptop!

One thing that hopefully they can resolve through Beta testing - when you use the search function to find a programme, it doesn't specify the episode i.e. search for "Spooks" and it will return 4 hits, but you need to select one to see which episode it is, and the speed of the interface is a bit, well, not quite rapid.