BBC iPlayer goes HD

For those who've been looking forward to it, BBC iPlayer has finally gone HD. There'll only be the same 40 hours or so per week that's currently airing on BBC HD, but it's a start.

 

Awesome. I browse the net using my PS3, so I'll definitely be taking advantage of this.

 

What bandwidth is needed to stream HD though? I can see it taking a huge chank of bandwith and data.

then again in Australia the federal government has just announced a fibre to the home broadband system to built over the next 8 years. The naysayers are saying current ADSL2 speeds are fine but would think HD streaming would be the ideal sort of thing to take advantage of 100Mbit links.

 

I just wish they'd make a plug in for Media Center, to make it easier to play them through the Media Center interface. I suppose I could always just install it and play the downloads, but it's more fiddly.

 

I just tried, it was streaming fine on my 8mbps connection. Looking at my bandwidth meter though it's nearly maxed out.
Downloads seem to be about 1.2gb for an hour show.

 

(((unlimited connection)))

 

^Lucky you. Mine's only unlimited between the hours of 12am-8am.