TV channels in SD only?

[Dutchelement]

Hi,

Shield pro with Xenon Plus 2.1
Under TV guide all tv-channels, also the channels in the add on like Daddy live and The TV app, only play in SD.
As far as I can remember in 2.0 and Xenon older versions most tv-channels played in HD 720.
Other content like tv-shows and movies play in HD and/or 4K.
Is there a setting somewhere to get the TV channels back to HD?

Thanks!

[cg0]

Hi,

Shield pro with Xenon Plus 2.1
Under TV guide all tv-channels, also the channels in the add on like Daddy live and The TV app, only play in SD.
As far as I can remember in 2.0 and Xenon older versions most tv-channels played in HD 720.
Other content like tv-shows and movies play in HD and/or 4K.
Is there a setting somewhere to get the TV channels back to HD?

Thanks!

That's the provider changed setting -obviously for lower bandwidth due to higher traffic.
Nothing we can do.

[Dutchelement]

Thanks for your reply.
You mean the tv-channels streaming content provider right?
But do all tv-channels come from the same provider, regardless of the Kodi add on used? and if there is more then one, they all switched now to SD only?

[cg0]

Whatever you see now on SD is set by the addon provider to be SD.

[Dutchelement]

Did some more testing.
Recently I switched the Shield to Wifi instead of wired ethernet.
I did the speed test and got enough throughput for 4K.
Series and movies played fine in HD.
So just now I switched back to hard-wired and the tv-channels played in 720 and 1080 HD again.
But now it gets more weird.
After that I switched the Shield back to Wifi and this time the tv-channels stayed in HD.
Between all the network switching I exit out of Kodi every time and killed it with the Android Task manager just to be sure.
So, not really an answer, but maybe somebody can benefit from this.

[cg0]

This could be explained if peeps unplug device & router for 5 minutes like we suggest on Live TV & Sports issues, it's not rare to get better connections.