Virgin Media Gets BBC HD iPlayer Service Through V+ Box

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Cnet has an interesting piece of information regarding the new iPlayer HD service. Apparently, the iPlayer HD site only uses a 3.2Mbps H.264 stream, which is only marginally higher than Virgin Media's own SD data stream. This means that the HD capable V+ box should be able to sustain a much higher data stream and, hopefully, produce a higher quality content.

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