Good morning chaps,

I recently bought a 4K TV Set which has an in-built iplayer. Unless the TV is a "wizard" I am nearly wholly convinced it is receiving UltraHD rather than the regular 720p stream. Is there anyway to choose UltraHD in get-iplayer? I have looked through the documentation but the highest mode I can see is a 1280x720 one.

Thanks, and great software!

Cuscaden

There is no native 4K broadcasting taking place right now by the BBC. Your TV upscales any content to UltraHD. See this link: http://www.techradar.com/news/television...ns-1320679

Hi there

No 4K content now but will be shortly. I have SKY Q with 2 miniboxes and (although some teething problems) the  SKY 4K service (particularly Sports - Football specifically) is absolutely brilliant in 4K UHD.

Note - SKY Q miniboxes still have mac 1080p but I'm sure some firmware will probably change that in due course.

I can't believe that the BBC isn't possibly even now testing some 4K UHD programming -- I can't see it being too far way  in the future.

However downloading say a 2 hr program in 4K UHD will need decent broadband speeds (less than 20 Mib/s forget it) and unlimited bandwidth --if your ISP caps your bandwidth to even 100GB a month you'll rapidly run out after downloading a few 4K movies (to say nothing of when 8K eventually arrives).

OT I know - but standard DVD's and SD programs can look quite grainy / fuzzy on large 4K TV sets unless they have a decent built in upscaling facility --DVD quality is only 576p which looks a bit rubbishy on a 60 inch TV without serious upscaling. Also note you will need an HDMI cable with version 2 compliant - otherwise SKY Q won't work on 1.4 version of HDMI !!!!!! so check before buying one of those nice new TV's for XMAS.

Cheers
-D