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1Gbps, 4K streaming, buffering a thing of the past – but do Brits really even want full fibre?

John Sager

I've used 4k on Prime and also on iPlayer. The iPlayer stuff was this year's Wimbledon and their UHD test streams. Wimbledon was about 38Mbit/sec as measured by my ISP, so essentially raw bits on the line. The BBC UHD test streams come in at about 23MBit/sec, the difference being that they can afford to do a lot more processing in the encoding for recorded stuff versus live. 4k on Amazon is around 15MBits/sec.

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