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Listed below are comments made by Philip between Tuesday, 16th December 2008 and Wednesday, 9th December 2009.

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The Hitchhiker's Guide to Encoding: Mostly Testing (Or how to set up an encoder test) 11:38am on 09 Dec 2009 A great article - thanks, Andy. I think the viewing distance in our living room is only slightly higher than 4h. Just glad we didn't go for a larger TV set!

Loving the series of articles.
Open post: Thursday, 10 September 2009 09:46am on 11 Sep 2009 I want to start by commenting that I love what the BBC have done with iPlayer. The wide range of platform support is great. I have one request: can we please have full HD videos (1920x1080) rather than reduced HD (1920x720)?

A couple of questions/comments:

1. Why isn't there more HD content on iPlayer to match what is broadcast? For example, Harper's Island is being broadcast on BBC HD but isn't available to view on iPlayer. I have asked this by email and got a reply but I wanted to make this a general question and not necessarily specific to this one programme.

2. When problems are spotted, they don't always get resolved. For example, there was an episode of Coast recently that appeared on iPlayer that should have been HD and, indeed, was encoded at 1920x720 but I'm pretty sure it was an SD source instead of the HD source. The DOG was WAY too big and also in the wrong place. The picture quality was not as good. I reported this and got confirmation back but no action was taken.

Thank you again for providing iPlayer.
BBC HD: Joining the BBC iPlayer family 7:57pm on 21 Apr 2009 Are you considering making the HD content available in WMV format for Windows Media Centre users as well? This would be a great addition to what is already an excellent service.

Thanks for continuing to make your programmes available in WMV. The Media Centre support is much appreciated.
Gaming uncovered 8:28pm on 16 Dec 2008 Which Wii game was being used in the programme? It looked like you were getting some good exercise!

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