AppleTV 4K and Apple Video Services.

Very impressive new Video player has been released by Channel 5 for their My5 App on the platform in the last 24 hours. Wierd quirk though, each advert and transition to a different video source invokes the speed training routine. Does it very rapidly though. I have suspicions it's at 720p too.

Wonder if there is a break in the HLS/HDS/MPEG DASH streams? So each element is effectively a new item.

BTTV will launch soon on Apple TV (and on other Connected Platforms in time), effectively becoming cord cut-table.

Let's hope it matches their multicast quality, but I fear it will be more like their unicast.

ITV used the Royal Wedding to promote on the top shelf carousel of AppleTV's homepage the ITV Hub player app. Interesting approach.

And the same for 'Britain's Got Talent' as well it seems, the banner for it has been there every time I've switched on the Apple TV this week.

Watch the BBC iPlayer live streams via AppleTV and comment. Springwatch tonight was far better than broadcast HD in my view. Stunning. If they're not using the 8mbps profile via the AppleTV platform, give me a hat to eat. Could easily be misconstrued as 4K in parts.

Watching the catch up version on my ATV4K in 4K it looks like the 720p50 profile to me - quite harsh compression artefacts on the #springwatch tag. The source material might be a little bit bright and shiny... Doesn't look like a higher bit rate to me, and nothing like UHD.

Has iPlayer announced it is going to do a 8Mbs H264 SDR stream?

I know we're getting higher bitrate 1080p50 and 720p50 streams alongside the 1440p50 and 2160p50 streams using HEVC for the UHD HDR sourced content (particularly as it's a 'high quality' source and 10-bit) but didn't think they had announced anything new for regular SDR 8-bit stuff.

It's the BBC TWO live stream version that looked spectacular last night, I'll review the catchup in the morning.

Typically the live stream is used to create the catch-up version - at least initially. (They use the same encoded chunks and set an in- and out-point)

Saw this linked from another forum and thought it might be of interest to people here, given the issue of All4 not being on Apple TV has been raised before:

You'll be glad to let you know that we are working on an #All4 app for
Apple TV, but we currently have no timescale on when this will be ready
for use.

— 4Viewers (@4Viewers) May 12, 2018

Hopefully this will mean they improve on the sub-SD quality too. Walter Presents from the current All4 stuff is unwatchable on a decent sized HD or UHD TV.