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#STREAM BLUE PLANET 3K FULL#
However, in the real-world there are often complications that can disrupt such connectivity, such as slow WiFi, poor home wiring, full to capacity street cabinets, network congestion and so forth. Sadly we don’t have any HDR supporting kit in-house to test the performance, but if anybody out there does then please try to track how much speed the stream requires and report back.Īt present around half of the active broadband connections in the UK should be running off a service that is fast enough to support 4K streaming and it’s estimated that similar 25Mbps capable connectivity is available to order by 94%+ of premises.
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The series is due to be released to iPlayer immediately after the final episode of Blue Planet II is broadcast on BBC One this coming Sunday. Making the full series available in Ultra HD and HDR on BBC iPlayer is the next step in reinventing the BBC for a new generation, and there’s not a better place to start than with the stunning Blue Planet II.”
Blue Planet II is the first programme we’ve shown in such high quality and perfectly demonstrates how the BBC is pushing the boundaries of digital innovation. “The extra quality that Ultra HD, HDR and the wider range of colours brings to audiences is unparalleled. Matthew Postgate, BBC Chief Technology and Product Officer, said: I’ve given a variable figure because the Bitrate of the video stream will fluctuate depending upon the content being displayed and any change in your own connection (quality may automatically reduce if your speed drops), thus it’s always difficult to be precise. Just to put this in some extra perspective, a 1 hour episode running in 4K could potentially gobble around 7-11GB (GigaBytes) of data on a 25Mbps requirement. Lest we forget that the codecs are always improving and over time speed requirements for 4K video streaming will come down. The big unknown here is how much extra strain their HDR content will put on those figures, although we’ve seen some people with a 15-20Mbps connection managing to play last year’s 4K + HDR test just fine and so the above is probably still a fair assumption. We’d say this is a reasonable expectation for the BBC too. less complicated scenes may only need 5Mbps and others could ramp to 30Mbps+). In practice the use of pre-caching and the dynamic nature of video bit rates mean that a 15Mbps connection might still offer a fairly smooth experience (i.e.
The huge quality increase with 4K ( 3840 x 2160 pixels) tends to push this up and Netflix recommends a speed of 25Mbps (Amazon is the same, although YouTube suggests 15Mbps).
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Sadly neither Apple nor Amazon’s latest streaming boxes are able to offer compatible iPlayer apps, while Sony’s latest ZD9 and A1 TV sets will also be excluded.
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Today 4K and HLG supporting devices are much more common, which means that the latest 4K trial will find its way to around 400 TV models, as well as Roku’s 4K Streaming Stick+ and the Sky Q platform (although streaming on Sky won’t support HDR).
The original test was also only available to TVs that supported the BBC’s own HDR standard (HLG – Hybrid Log-Gamma), which could be found on certain 4K displays from Hisense, LG, Panasonic, Philips and several brands by Vestel.
But you’ll need a good broadband connection and the right kit to view it.Īvid readers will recall that the BBC has tested 4K and HDR content on their iPlayer service before, albeit only with a brief teaser clip at the end of last year from the related TV series of Planet Earth II ( here). The BBC has announced that their video streaming iPlayer service will, from Sunday 10th December 2017, release the full TV series of Blue Planet II in 4K (UltraHD) and High Dynamic Range (HDR) video quality as part of an initial trial.
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