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[newapollo]

Fans can experience the Euros in superb Ultra HD quality live on BBC iPlayer, as part of a trial from the BBC. Viewers with compatible TVs and a high-speed internet connection will be able to watch 22 of the BBC's games in Ultra-High Definition and High Dynamic Range, including the first games in the competition for Wales, England and Scotland.

Info above from https://www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/mediapacks/euro-2020 

Don't forget you will also need a compatible TV  <<< listed here >>> 

The first few matches will be

• Turkey v Italy
• Wales v Switzerland
• England v Croatia
• Scotland v Czech Republic
• Spain v Sweden

<cough>  Sadly iPlayer on Sky Q is “not currently supported” 

[Roger_Gooner]

Are people getting UHD and HDR on iPlayer? I'm not and am not sure if it's a problem with VM (I have a V6) or my Philips OLED805.

[newapollo]

Hi Roger_Gooner,

I had UHD and HDR on iPlayer watching the Wales game on my 360 box.

You might need to go into the iPlayer app settings > Settings & Help > Video Quality > and select Best Quality

According to the  <<< BBC specs >>>   your Philips OLED805 is listed as compatible.

Screen shot from my 360 showing Finland v  Denmark game picture specs (Apologies for poor photo)

[newapollo]

There are initially 17 games in UHD on the iPlayer. According to the BBC there will be up to 25, so the rest will be later stages games.

• 11 June - Turkey v Italy 
• 12 June - Wales v Switzerland 
• 12 June - Denmark v Finland 
• 13 June - England v Croatia 
• 14 June - Scotland v Czech Republic 
• 14 June - Spain v Sweden 
• 16 June - Finland v Russia
• 16 June - Turkey v Wales
• 17 June - Netherlands v Austria
• 18 June - Sweden v Slovakia
• 18 June - Croatia v Czech Republic
• 19 June - Hungary v France
• 19 June - Spain v Poland
• 21 June - Finland v Belgium
• 21 June - Russia v Denmark
• 23 June - Germany v Hungary
• 23 June - Portugal v France

[MrHalfAsleep]

Nothing much technically here, but there is football related stuff.

I thought England had already gone out on penalties.  Can't get behind the football at all, and they haven't won a World Cup in 56 years (longer than I've been alive).  There's 11* competitions to go before 2066 (that'll be a 100 years since an England win) and 2030 marks 100 years of the World Cup itself.

*Presuming they go ahead

[Roger_Gooner]

@newapollo wrote:

You might need to go into the iPlayer app settings > Settings & Help > Video Quality > and select Best Quality

I've done that and I'm using the Standard (not the beta) player. I get HDR on Prime Video, so at least that works. But I get HDR from the TV's iPlayer, so something's going wrong when the source is the V6.

[newapollo]

I have the beta version turned on 

[Roger_Gooner]

Makes no difference if I use the standard or BETA player, and have just discovered that I'm not getting HDR on YouTube. I'm getting increasingly annoyed as I can usually figure these things out.