[IanJRedman]

Mostly. Tennant's last four episodes were HD.

Yes, everything before that was recorded on Digibeta in SD at 50i and then filmised in post-production to 25p. On the DVD and Blu-ray releases you can see deleted scenes in their raw format, and they have 'soap opera motion'. I daresay, if the original tapes still exist and if somebody had the time and massive budget to do it, you could do a complete rebuild on those episodes, with almost 20 years' advancements in deinterlacing, and you'd get much better picture quality out of it. But that's another story!

[James2001]

Noticed Red Dwarf is on the iPlayer now, quite interesingly including the Dave episodes (apart from Back To Earth anyway... but that was dire so no real loss).

[Brekkie]

A few Dave, Drama and Alibi shows have made their way to the BBC lately.

[London Lite]

In all honesty I think of Father Brown being more of an Alibi show than a BBC One commission, largely because I see it on there.

[JAS84]

A few Dave, Drama and Alibi shows have made their way to the BBC lately.

They do wholly own UKTV now. They might as well merge UKTV Play into iPlayer entirely.

[Nobby]

And have adverts on BBC iPlayer? NO WAY!

Even S4C doesn't have adverts on BBC iPlayer.

[Brekkie]

Putting all these old series in full on the iPlayer is great for the licence fee payer but have to wonder if it's good for the BBC's own commercial revenue - there is little point in using UKTV Play or paying for a service like BritBox when the content is available free and ad free via the iPlayer.

[James2001]

Being 50fps means the content is superior on the iPlayer than it would be on any of those other services too.

[London Lite]

if iPlayer introduced 1080p to all devices in addition to the 50fps, it'd easily be the best of the PSB VOD apps.

Luckily I have a supported device which allows me to watch iPlayer VOD content in full HD, but the live channels are still either 720p or 540p SD.

[James2001]

Though I'd argue 720p50 is itself a significant improvement over 1080p25 even if the resolution is lower. Far too much focus on resolution being the be all and end all these days- while sticking with the 24fps frame rate that only even exists because it was the bare minimum they could get away with in the 1920s.