KPN has announced that it is the image quality of hd channels via fiber optics to be viewed, is going to improve. In the first instance, will be a limited number of iptv set-top boxes with the increased bitrate of 12,75 Mbit/s handle. Next year follow all set-top boxes.
KPN rolls out the improved hd image quality, say in phases. From 2 december, customers who watch tv via fibre optics and a set-top box with model number 2260 or 2952, the increased bitrates get delivered. It involves the three NPO-channels and the hd channels from RTL and SBS. The middle of next year to the other tv receivers, including set-top boxes with order no. 1853 and 1963, are also suitable for the improved hd-quality.
Except KPN customers will also be subscribers of the Telfort and Xs4all via fiber optic tv look of the enhanced hd-quality. This process is, according to KPN fully automatically. Customers with a dsl subscription with KPN, including the faster vdsl2 variants, do not take advantage of the increased bitrates for the hd channels. They will have to be satisfied with current bitrates of around the 7 to 8Mbit/s.
Many KPN-glasvezelklanten complain about the low bit-rates which KPN operates compared to, for example, kabelaars, making the hd image quality can be left behind. Competitor Vodafone, which is also in some glasvezelgebieden active, promised, incidentally, only that the bitrates of hd-channels will increase.
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