Dreadful quality 30 August 2012 Reviewer: Mikfrak from Leeds, England
204 of 405 people found this review helpful
I am used to watching movies and TV online using BBC iPlayer, Netflix or other services and I expected Blinkbox to be similar. I bought a season pass to Game of Thrones expecting an equivalent experience but the quality is so bad it is unwatchable. It is like watching a badly copied video tape from the 1980s. The sound is muted and dull, the colours grey and washed out, with extremely low resolution. iPlayer and all the other streaming services look fine so it is not my connection. I have watched Blinkbox movies before that looked OK so I do not know what has changed, but I have seriously thought of trying to get my money back. I understand that Blinkbox has recently switched to the Microsoft Silverlite streaming software solution, which is popular with movie studios and businessmen because of its very heavy encryption, but hated by users for its appallingly bad quality so maybe that is the problem. Really the the strange square artefacts you see on screen with a bad connection are the size of postage stamps and the background shimmers like a constantly changing mosaic! And the sound is muted and dull as if you have turned down all the tone settings as far as they will go. As it stands it is simply appalling.
In summary, I would not recommend BlinkBox to a friend.
