Is HD iplayer and recording worth it? Well, the London fireworks should help answer that one!

[Jon Davies]

On 2 January 2014 19:57, Jonathan H <lardconcepts at gmail.com> wrote:
> Could it be that iplayer is serving a
> "less HD version" to us slowcoaches, and get_iplayer pulled a better
> version?

I believe that's exactly what it's designed to do - it works out how
much bandwidth there is between the server and viewer, and alters the
bit rate (and hence quality) accordingly.  Thus you get a smooth
stream, but with lower quality if there's something limiting the
bandwidth.

Jon