Enjoy blue TV – even when your Internet connection is slow

Hello everyone,

It would be helpful to know what the minimum bandwidth is for the TV Air streams. 🙂

There is no minimum bandwidth in this sense, as all of our slow connections are “fast” enough for it.

@Roger G

Bold statement that even the slowest is still fast enough. Now you have to work internally to ensure that the Prepaid Plus is increased from 128 Kbit/sec to approx. 2 Mbit/sec 🙂

I believe this is called adaptive streaming.
Running does, just not with the same image quality.

So then watch TV like in the last millennium 😉

@Werner Internet-Anschluss, available speed on Anschluss… has nothing to do with prepaid.

@Herby yes, it is adaptive and the result surprised me very positively. Have you tried it yet?

@Roger G

Since this topic explicitly talks about “distressed” Internet connections, and in terms of the Internet with regard to blue TV, the only advantage of the Apple TV box explicitly mentioned in the original article over a Swisscom TV-Box is that it does not require a Swisscom landline Internet connection, I think, that one must also be able to discuss mobile communications bandwidths and the associated subscriptions and data packages.

And it’s just a fact that the minimum mobile phone flat rate regularly offered by Swisscom will not be enough to run the blue TV app on an Apple TV box.

The usual use case for this is blue TV on the campsite or in the wandering mobile home, or in all other places where there is simply no Swisscom landline connection.

That’s why I stick to my estimate that the minimum available bandwidth must be at least approx. 2 Mbit/sec in order to be able to operate the blue TV app on an Apple TV box.

Of course, I would also be happy to let a Swisscom “blue TV app on Apple TV expert” like @RomanBl teach me otherwise.

And the original question from @r00t:

“It would be helpful to know what the minimum bandwidth is for the TV air streams. 🙂”

That’s why I still think it’s very justified, because my 2 Mbit/sec is just an experience-based estimate and there should be a “techie” somewhere in Swisscom who can tell the authors of this article @LeaH and @CorinaS should actually be able to provide this information.

@LeaH @CorinaS thank you for your wise advice

@LeaH @CorinaS thank you for this always wise advice 😀

I think it would be ideal if we explicitly pointed out in the article that this is only about slow Internet connections (that’s actually what it says, it doesn’t seem to be easy to tell from the text). So to put it simply, it’s only about ADSL/2+ connections on which our TV box is not supported. But this is now possible with the Apple Box 4k and the TV Air app. The nomadic use case was/is not in our focus.

Hi @Werner

I tried it briefly - for me the stream (in the browser) also runs with a throttle of up to 1 mbit/s - of course not without loss of quality, but surprisingly well!

As expected, it no longer works with 128 kbit/s - but that is no longer up to date and fortunately no longer found on fixnet connections according to @Roger G.

We have already stated in other threads that Pre-Paid Plus urgently needs to be upgraded - I would never think of recommending it to anyone at the moment.

Here’s a quick comparison, TV-Blue and Teleboy, browser tabs limited to 1 mbit/s:

Teleboy

Blue TV

The compression is much nicer with blue TV IMO.

LG

r00t

@Roger G

@LeaH

@CorinaS

I think you should adjust the wording here:

1x wired internet connections (Swisscom and 3rd party)

1× 4G/5G connections (Swisscom and 3rd party)

which are then used for the purpose mentioned, or allow unwired access “with reservation” in the above article…

@LeaH @CorinaS thank you for your precious advice 😀

@LeaH@“x”#838639thanks!

Small addition on the advantage of the Apple TV offered by Swisscom: the remote control which compared to the Siri remote control of a standard Apple TV has P+ and P- buttons, direct access to the Blue TV guide from any app, backlighting, and finally (personal opinion) it is more pleasant in the hand!

The good thing with the Swisscom Apple TV is its remote control, better than the regular Siri remote for TV watching: P+/P- keys, direct access to Blue program guide from any app, and automatic backlighting. Also fits better in the hands

@Roger G wrote:

Yes. In between when I’m not at home and want to watch F1.
Ok, you can see everything, but you probably have to accept pixelation when buffering.
But it could also be a different problem than just… If so, I’ll just look via mobile 😉

@AntoineBD thank you for this additional information 😀

it is true that in the photo the design of the remote control for Apple TV is perfect 😲

I confirm: the swisscom remote control is much more ergonomic than the Apple one.

But… why not a numeric keypad?

@Prelude

I have the same question, older people in particular find that a remote control without a keypad is not really easy to use, I don’t like that sort of thing either.