Hi,

Are you good friends with Oprah Winfrey??? You would be if you can afford an 8K TV and the broadband to stream content to it! The TV would most likely take up an entire wall to achieve 8K....

Yours,

It would be nice if they upped the encoding rate even for SD/HD. I have watched a few streamed films recently that suffered badly due to encoding.

Watching Black Panther on NowTV there was major pixelation on the screen when they were at the waterfalls - too many things changing at once the encoding couldn't keep up with it and it was incredibly blocky. If they increased the bit rate then they could handle the higher speed changes in those scenes.

In reply to a post by ian72:

Watching Black Panther on NowTV there was major pixelation on the screen when they were at the waterfalls - too many things changing at once the encoding couldn't keep up with it and it was incredibly blocky.

NowTV are terrible for over-compressing their streams, like you I've seen HD that looked like 180p... even their HD is limited to 720p (link). I know that's technically correct but, to me, HD means 1080

No problems with Netflix, Amazon, iTunes or iPlayer (which I know is also only 720 but at least it's free!), which is mostly why I cancelled my NowTV subscription after a couple of months.

That could explain what I see Bill with a Now TV Sports Day Pass watching F1, via AAISP. Often it changes shot and goes �out of focus� for a few seconds, and is quite likely (in the Now TV app to just stop with a full-screen message �Oops, something went wrong�. Close and restart the app (as it advises) and it goes again from the up to date race state.

On initial startup it also tends to lag several seconds behind the action, with the F1 Timing app showing a car leaving the pits before Now shows it entering,