[Neil Jones]

I'm not sure just because deciding many non-geeky viewers won't notice is an excuse for streaming services to keep putting out inferior quality video to what you can get on broadcast TV and physical media.

Considering the decision to cram more and more stuff on Freeview and reduce the bit rate and/or the resolution results in mushy looking pictures, I would welcome the iPlayer at least to attempt to make the picture look semi-decent.

Sometimes streaming services are limited as to what they can do, if they're supplied with x generation prints that are old, faded, tatty, originally made for "this film has been formatted to fit your TV" marketing junk and it looks like its seen better days, well nothing you do is going to make it any better whatever you pump it out as.

Must also be remembered physical media so far as DVD are concerned are reduced quality from the off anyway - especially if they were movies, which have been bounced down from film stock/masters and then squashed through MPEG2 compression to meet the DVD standard. I presume Blu-Ray is compressed as well, possibly MPEG4.