Ok fair enough.

But why you so bothered ?

If you read my description you will see that I did state that I didn't put it in the freebies section as you have to be a Sky Q or Virgin customer.

I bet if I had put it in the free section people would tell me it's not free as you have to pay for Sky/Virgin

Also on my 4K Panasonic without Sky or Virgin

Chill out Deedie.

It will work in HDR on some Panasonic TV's.

http://www.trustedreviews.com/news/planet-earth-ii-lands-on-bbc-iplayer-in-4k-and-hdr

Well it's not, I assure you - even the title of the documentary is solidly about this world.

Awesome graphics. Out of this world.

Normally, this be a very good reason to NOT buy into 4K at the moment, but nowadays firmware updates seem to be able to deal with these sorts of problems, but you are in the hands of the manufacturer who may decide not to update for real or imaginary reasons :wink:

Yes, that's correct - they only do Sky Q boxes now

BUT.....

there are two Sky Q boxes, 1 TV and 2TB...

ONLY the 2TB box is 4K compatible. ......

My SkyHD box stopped working in November , I phoned them up to cancel because of this and they offered a new Sky Q box for free.
I don't know if they means they have stopped giving out SkyHD boxes now.

great selection of TV's there BBC.. well done. not.

Wasn't that impressed tbh, 4minutes of raindrops then a big cat failing at lunch and the music didn't go with he piece at all imho.

If you have SkyQ then you have at least the basic package with Sky1 which will let you watch a full length Attenborough documentary (among many other things) via the UHD section in the menus. If you have sports or movies then there is loads of 4K content available now.

Xbox One S uses incorrect RGB decoding leading to coloured posterisation on bright highlights. Samsung K8500 suffers from undefeatable noise reduction on the Cb and Cr channels. So it still won't be perfect on 4k Bluray when it finally comes out, unless you have a panasonic 4k bluray player.

Do people know this effectively a trailer? Can I stick on imdb links to film trailers?

<3

Lucky you, ordered mine yesterday. Next available installation date is 21st of Feb !

Wow what an attitude to have for an admin/mod. :confused:

No! That would never happen here!

Thanks to the OP, the quality of this is simply stunning!

Just tried on my LG OLED - does look amazing. So when is this coming properly to iPlayer in 4K?

Oh, I didn't know that.

That's just the BBC being the BBC and using 1080i50 (Or 60)? I suppose that makes sense as the format can't do full 1080p with higher frame rates.

I bought one of the last remaining Plasma sets from LG, glad I did, the 4K hype on cheap LCD/LED backlit sets can drive consumers into a blind buying frenzy. Meanwhile I gladly wait for streaming services to get properly setup and decent quality OLED screens to come down in price and also how the cheaper quantum dot backlit LCD tvs pan out.

Yes, I can really see the difference looking at a phone camera jpeg on a 1080P monitor...
:stuck_out_tongue:

Why can't they just out the bloody 4k blu-ray out?

Even then you'll need to hope your eye sight is good enough to see the difference. The 1080p Blu-ray of Planet Earth is absolutely stunning, even on a 115" projection. I'm struggling to imagine how it could look any better tbh. On a standard 55" it would be impossible to tell the difference but from what i've read HDR is what you really want and 4K is just a selling point to those who chase specs rather than live in reality.

The question is more why are they using interlaced instead of progressive scan... It was the same for the last planet earth box set on Blu-ray. Just the beeb being awkward I guess.
Still looked very nice mind you!

Surprised no one has commented about the bitrate of so called "4K trial", if it is anything like Netflix Ultra HD then its quality will be only marginally better than standard blu ray which is the maximum that is afforded to current internet bandwidth.

Considering that standard HD streaming bitrate paid services H.264 content are not the same quality as standard 1080p blu ray I would hardly be expecting miracles from Sky Q and Virgin V6 in comparison to physical media.

No one is going to get this at its best unless they have a UHD TV and UHD Blu Ray Player with the physical disc released.

Errrmm, mine's being installed on Friday :-)

Standard Blu-Ray is 1080p24 as standard.

You will need the new Ultra HD Blu-Ray to have it in 4K. I believe that the BBC may be making it next year: http://www.techradar.com/news/bbc-confirms-ultra-hd-blu-ray-release-of-planet-earth-2-is-on-the-cards

Of course, you'll need either an Xbox One S (Not a PS4 Pro, it wont work). or a dedicated UHD Blu-Ray player.

even 4k is now boring, we wanna more

If this was filmed in 4K resolution why does the blu-ray only have 1080i resolution?

Played this on my Panasonic 4K TV last week. The detail was incredible. Please upload the full Planet Earth 2 in 4K please BBC!

Have you set you SkyQ picture settings to accept UHD?

You can pretty much watch most of best scenes on youtube, but I'd say it's got better story and filming than most action movies

only 4 minutes long...

​Nope, nothing there :-(

In the main menu go to -

Catch up TV,then BBC iplayer,then it should be at the bottom of the list,it will say - Try Ultra HD

I can't find this on my sky box (silver). do I need to do something to activate it?

If you have Fire TV 4K or similar there's loads of Ultra HD nature content in 4K on Youtube. Looks good. Check it out.

​does it really matter?

Wow you got 2 TVs. One on top the other? That top one looks like it's slipping down behind the bottom one.

No not necessarily, iplayer is available on lots of platforms, but at the minute the trial is just being rolled out on the larger platforms, presumably while they test it

Are you an "Auditor" ?

For those with a 4K amazon tv box and a 4K TV, shouldn't it be available to them? As the BBC I player is available on Amazon TV.

​Not true I have had one for the past week.

Sounds about reet

Ah right.

I'm guessing 2 x 4 minutes then ?

The Virgin V6 box is not available until end of Feb

It's on a loop

Strange.as I downloaded it last night and it says the run time is 8 minutes.But I've not watched it yet.

"you will be able to watch four stunning minutes of footage from Planet Earth II in Ultra HD"

all these squabbles thank feck it's Christmas good will etc. etc.

Whilst the picture of this on my Panasonic telly does look superb, the HDR implementation (Hybrid log gamma) is pretty underwhelming, I expected so much more, especially after seeing some pretty superb HDR10 content

Edit: turns out the HLG HDR stream that's available for Panasonic tvs isn't even compatible with Panasonic tvs so can only be viewed in SDR! That'll explain why I was so underwhelmed lol

Yes you was perfectly correct mate and it's a step up from 4K not a huge step up would of been good in hdr too

So I was correct in what I read about it working on any 4K TV as long as it's watched via the Sky Q or Virgin box.

How does it compare to other 4K content ?

Samsung 65ks8000 skyQ :smiley:

Looks so good

Only works on a small range of Panasonic TVs due to the type of 4k broadcast being sent so probably worth adding to the title (although I'm not sure how it's a deal either!) so people don't waste time trying to get it to work on their non-Panasonic 4K TVs.

Also you don't need Sky or Virgin either

So not anything to do with hoping more people will vote this HOT, HOT, HOT!

Heat added as it's Christmas

Hello

​Stop being a know it all **** or ill ban you. Regards

​stop moaning

Thanks for the heads up (regardless of where it was posted!)

Deedie I agree, there's far too much posting of deals in the wrong sections that goes on. Freebies often get lobbed into Deals so people can gain heat. Back in the old days it really wasn't like that, people managed to post things in the right sections consistently, leading me to believe it's either a.) intention or b.) stupidity.

#deedieforadminrole2017

just commenting so I can find it again she my q starts. hear added

Yup, this should definitely be in the freebies section.
Lots of deals in freebies require associated device and/or subscription/membership to take advantage of the said deal.

​lighten up man

Chill out Deedie.

​First world problems eh?

http://www.hotukdeals.com/deals/puma-free-standard-express-delivery-today-tomorrow-only-saving-up-9-95-2581210

this is the best so far. read the first line of description by the op. and its over 200 degrees heat

http://www.hotukdeals.com/deals/30-credit-for-20-zizzi-restaurants-2581449

another voucher code posted as a deal. like a lot of them, this s actually already posted in the voucher section, for the past 2 days. In that time, it has got 30degress heat. in 9 hours, it got 220+ in the deal section. that's why everybody posts in the deals section, they get more heat.

Let's hope so :smiley:

not available on sony 4k............ boooo

if its a trial, then its just a matter of time before 4k is standard on iplayer anyway.

Cheers.

From what it says in the link it is available on Sky Q,Virgin V6 and certain Panasonic TVs.

http://www.hotukdeals.com/deals/lots-xmas-stuff-reduced-75-claires-accessories-2581736 <---- few years ago this would always have been dumped in misc section. its xmas, every website a sale.

and another .............. http://www.hotukdeals.com/deals/70-off-tu-sainsburys-clothing-now-live-store-2581682

https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/help/planet_earth_4k

May help further.

like I said, nothing personal.

I will post you some links to some examples of the "deals" I mean, as I go through the site tonight.

here is the first

http://www.hotukdeals.com/deals/prezzo-25-egift-voucher-for-20-2581752 <---- this is nothing but a voucher, no matter how you dress it up.

I have a android 4k TV and when I opened the app last week its said something about this demo in the beta section. That's as much as I remember I'm afraid.

It's available on any BBC iplayer app.

Like I said I posted it where I thought was best,wasn't trying to get anyone's back up or gain extra heat from being misplaced.

nothing personal mate. honestly

just been annoyed with this site over the last year or so.

everything gets dumped in the deals section. the mods and vips do it all the time with deals that amount to nothing more than a voucher code or X% off sale on some random site, but stick a few examples items on to dress it up as deal.

my main point being that they should just do away with all the other sections and just have one. nobody looks or posts in the others.

Ok fair enough.

But why you so bothered ?

so should be in miscellaneous section, as a heads up.

If you read my description you will see that I did state that I didn't put it in the freebies section as you have to be a Sky Q or Virgin customer.

I bet if I had put it in the free section people would tell me it's not free as you have to pay for Sky/Virgin

why is this in deals section

​It's not as expensive as they make out. I got the basic box for £10 a month and about £20 install charge.

I`ve been a sky customer for years but this is the first time I`ve heard of Sky Q! :disappointed:
As a very basic customer, it doesn`t seem like something I`m likely to upgrade to

http://www.pocket-lint.com/news/134738-what-is-sky-q-how-much-does-it-cost-and-how-can-i-get-it

Also no 4K tv, I`m in the Dark Ages! :wink:

Seriously damn good cant wait for the uhd disc

Also on my 4K Panasonic without Sky or Virgin