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#232220 5-Apr-2018 12:26

Have Lightbox changed their CDN recently as I'm seeing a lot more video artefacts in the last couple of days.

I've just started Season 3 of Mr Robot and the darker scenes aren't as clear as the previous seasons. I wanted to make sure it was just a season 3 issue.

My setup is version 1.0.1 of the Android TV apk on a FireTV Stick and typically the video will hold at a sustained throughput of 9Mbit during playback.

I know Lightbox are supposed to be switching over to Brightcove later this month and I'm hoping we don't see any drop in video quality as some of the existing TVNZ On Demand streams aren't very good via the Brightcove service.

- https://www.sparknz.co.nz/news/Lightbox-upgrades/

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#1988741 5-Apr-2018 12:35

Nope, no CDN changes. Does it do it consistently with that content, or all content?

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#1988750 5-Apr-2018 13:04

At the moment we're only watching Season 3 of Mr Robot and it has affected all episodes we've watched.

I'll keep an eye on this and see how other shows look as we've bookmarked "The High Road" for a watch.

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#1988878 5-Apr-2018 16:45

Ok keep me posted. I watched the first ep of High Road and actually lol'd :)

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#1989164 6-Apr-2018 06:33

GeorgefromLightbox:

Ok keep me posted. I watched the first ep of High Road and actually lol'd :)

Great quality for the High Road last night, but the show isn't as dark as Mr Robot (in a lot of ways).

Loving the show by the way, very pleased to see Lightbox pick it up.

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