Britbox UK - UK SVoD Platform.

I think 720p50 is quite decent on a small monitor you almost can’t tell the difference between 1080i25 and 720p50

Funnily enough though I did see a BritBox TV advert on ITV earlier today and that did show the clips from Doctor Who in 50i. A shame you can't see them that way on the service itself.

iPlayer on Sky distribution is handled by Sky via their CDN I believe - so the BBC doesn't have to 'pay per bit' (so higher bitrates don't cost the BBC anything).

Sky, it seems, are keen for their Catch Up service to be decent quality it seems, with Sky content also usually having a Dolby 5.1 audio track if the linear transmission did.

All4 and ITV Hub on Sky are 1080i25 at a decent bitrate. On their web streaming versions they are 576p25 at a low bitrate (adverts are 360p25 - or were last time I checked)

Is this (BBC iPlayer served by Sky) still current with the native application now being offered to users?

Partly, yes. Catch up is still available via the CDN - the section now named to "BBC" rather than BBC iPlayer.

Thanks.

Just checked Love Island and it's 896x504 on the standard ITV Hub. Amazon's ITV Hub+ channel is 1920x1080.

Just Cancelled for a while, will have another look once Channel 4 content appears.

Interesting how Britbox made a point of saying they weren't going to include shows such as Till Death Do Us Part and Love Thy Neighbour, but they're actively promoting Little Britain, which I'd say is just as problematic (if not more so).

I don't have BritBox but I like to know a couple of things;

1) Who has the most content on britbox out of BBC and ITV?
2) Which is ratting better and streaming more out of BBC and ITV?

Thanks

You do know that the vast majority of Channel 4's archive of programmes is available totally free on All4?

Albeit in awful, over-compressed, SD quality - unless something has changed recently. All4 streaming is unwatchable on a decent-sized TV.