On Mon, 23 Apr 2018 13:17:58 +0100, Andrew wrote:

On 23/04/2018 09:10, Andy Burns wrote:
Adrian Caspersz wrote:

Flickr is probably not that long for this world...

They've been sold again ... less than a year since last time.

They keep emailing me telling me of their news, even though they have
(quite reasonably) closed my account due to inactivity.

Something else that will disappear from my Humax HD FOX T2.
Twitter has already gone. ONly a slowwwww version of the iPlayer left.

JOOI, is the slower version of iPlayer a recent phenomena from about a
week ago? I only ask because the gypsies running the iPlayer concession
appear to have, in the past fortnight, deprecated the 25fps versions of
their mid definition (1280 by 720) downloads in favour of the 50fps
versions which are typically 120% larger in size (1GB - 2.2GB downloads).

This has forced us users of get_iplayer (Gip) to change its preference
setting to 50fps in order to restore the ratio of 1280x720 to 960x540
downloads which obviously effects the volume of data being uploaded by
iPlayer's servers to their licence paying clients who don't have a fast
enough broadband service to stream iPlayer's content direct to their TV
screen or computer monitor without buffering delays spoiling their
'viewing experience'.

I'm just wondering whether this unilateral decision at "iPlayer Central"
to force a not particularly desired 'Quality Upgrade' upon its less well
connected client base has started to impact the ordinary users who
otherwise do have sufficient bandwidth to stream direct to their TV sets.

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Johnny B Good