Technical stream questions

[lame153]

Hi all, hoping someone in the know can help, as I'm not even going to attempt asking CS...

Live stream quality - are these the same quality / bitrate you'd see on the 360 box channels, or are they the same lower quality streams you'd get on the iplayer / my5 /itv apps?

Do you need to use virgins DNS? I remember when I had the old TiVo box, you needed to use virgins DNS for call home / activation to work

Thanks in advance!

[nodrogd]

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@lame153 wrote:

Hi all, hoping someone in the know can help, as I'm not even going to attempt asking CS...

Live stream quality - are these the same quality / bitrate you'd see on the 360 box channels, or are they the same lower quality streams you'd get on the iplayer / my5 /itv apps?

They should be the same as the origin is still from your local cable headend.

Do you need to use virgins DNS? I remember when I had the old TiVo box, you needed to use virgins DNS for call home / activation to work

Yes again. Just as with V360, Stream uses the headend server based Horizon platform. This is on VMs internal network, so no other external DNS servers will recognise the addresses being used.

Thanks in advance!

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[stripealipe]

The streams are definitely not the best quality when compared to an actual Freeview aerial signal. They are pretty compressed tbh with artifacting. Would love for these to have a slight bump in bitrate to bring them up in quality.