Would not want to much of that on my 40Gb month.

Just fired up dads thing and got the answer, was very easy and I found by having a play 6 weeks ago or so.

Will do that next.

Hello

Fire up the iplayer in the viera cast button as you do and when I just did the wording along the botton was "featured" that was pink, use the round 4 arrow and ok thing on remote to go down and along to settings.

Is there in a cloice of a few settings when opened, Video quality gives HD, SD or lower. See what SD uses in your same test.

On the viera cast main page that fires up when button is pressed is a settings box, in that customise home screen moves around the boxes to but your favourite used things at the front first layer. What I did on our telly and dvd/freeview thing over a year ago and did for dads so he has the few usefull things on the first page.

Always aim for anything with settings on it. What I do and can usually find what you want.

Now to pack it back up.

Have you tried a media server program on the computer. I have a freebee called TVersity. ( run on computer if you want, no links or say do as get moaned at for dodgy links, up to you)

Then get the photos (file structure of the digital camera folder on computer ) show up on the freeview box so then onto the telly.

Press function menu, then network, then home network(DLNA), shows computer stuff that you set up in the TVersity program (if you want, up to you). Might already do this but nice to do if not, usefull for film show of camera photos if you have one.

Just a thought.

In reply to a post by gomezz:

On consumer devices iPlayer does not offer the HD streams

Well, iPlayer on my Humax PVR offers what it says is HD, but I haven't checked the data rates... I'll make a point of noting them next time I use it.

And the panasonic machine that started this off and is thew same as dads.

Freesat iplayer on the panasonic 2010 telly gives lower quility and higher. I go for higher as low I think is horrible.

Just had a look in the Help/FAQ for iPlayer on the Humax:

Q: Can I find HD programmes?

A: BBC HD programmes are available in the BBC HD channel if your device supports it. Select TV then BBC HD and you will find the available HD programmes.

If you cannot see the BBC HD logo it means HD programmes are not yet available on your device.

I can see it... and they sure eat bandwidth! I think about 2GB/hour as the OP says, but I'll have to do a proper check to be sure.

In reply to a post by gomezz:

On consumer devices iPlayer does not offer the HD streams available using a computer but but it does offer Higher Quality streams. which are halfway between the SD and HD streams. This is presumably because most consumer devices are not powerful enough to handle the full HD streams.

For non-HD stuff there's also a "normal" or "high quality" setting for faster connections, are you sure you don't mean that?


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Edited by billford (Thu 15-Mar-12 16:43:12)

I can confirm that my television, DVD/Bluray player and PCs all have iPlayer at HD available. My phone - which has iplayer does not offer HD.

Thanks.

I wish C4 would do something about their resolution via 4oD... I watched a 2hr 20min programme last night and it only used about half a gig, but it was like watching a movie in CGA

Thanks Daniel-G
I checked the settings on the BBC Iplayer and it was already set to SD, so I still don't know why I use so much.
I do have the DLNA function working and connected up to my PC. I also have Share Manager connected through my Samsung television so I do have 2 routes to view stuff stored. However it is the catchup on Iplayer that I really need to sort out.
I have asked for a MAC code today and will be moving to Goscombe.net that allows me 60GB per month for around the same money. I will run that and see how I get on. If that doesn't work I will have to consider the problem IP's like BT and SKY that have unlimited allowances but seem to have unlimited complaints about their service as well.

Hello at work on the phone so short today. A bit odd. Andrew recons 1.8 for hd. Hour worth. Sure it is on sd. Will set the same thing as you have up tomorrow we new 3d telly arrives. I have 40 gb on the cheap bt infinity. Had a duff phone incoming cable that dragged down the 37.5 top speed but went back up. No complaints from me. Most speed tests are 33mb or more. I think the photos to telly on the dlna is good. Problem now is 6 months ago go the 3d camera so now it will not do them. No 3d function. Works well on the tellys sd fard reader or side by side 3d output on computer, laptop on a hdmi lead

They also have many more customers and hence many more complaints

The vast majority of people are happy with their service

I've had sky for several years and apart from a recent problem it's always been fantastic

I also had a line problem but that would affect any ISP
Just my two cents... To add unlimited usage sounds like something that would really benefit you in terms of peace of mind etc