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Listed below are comments made by skywalker1010 between Tuesday, 3rd June 2008 and Monday, 28th July 2008.

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BBC HD Eurovision Sound Problems 09:15am on 28 Jul 2008 I see Seetha has been sooooooo busy ;-) she has moved to another dept.

Well good luck Seetha and hello Danielle Nagler.

Perhaps Seetha can fill you in, still seems we are all waiting for the BBCHD quality to show it's face again after outstanding start on launch, 'test' launch I should say. To the very below par quality we have now, no Dolby Digital 5.1 correct through a lot of programming and the distinct reduction in picture quality. I have early Jools Holland shows on my HD box recorded a few years ago on launch which look a million miles away from the quality shown at the moment.

One more thing!, why has the BBCHD DOG (onscreen graphic) been turned right up from a transparent white to full white in the last few days.

I would watch the fallout from this one Danielle and welcome aboard!
BBC HD Eurovision Sound Problems 1:18pm on 03 Jun 2008 I have been a long term SKYHD subscriber, from launch day in fact in May 2006. I have just joined this BBC forum as I really had to add to some of the very accurate comments here already.

Jibberjabber above especially.

2 years is a long time, certainly being able to monitor BBC HD and while I applaud the BBC for the free to air HD efforts such as Eurovision. The complete hash of the 2008 transmission has been one of a long list of technical inabilities over the years.

I have been lucky to have lived with the original first year BBC HD quality in picture, never dropping below 19Mb transmission rates. Jools Holland was truly sublime in picture and in sound.

Now two years on, the quality rate in picture has dropped enormously, in fact half the transmission rate and you really can see the difference.

Monsters Inc was transmitted a couple of Christmasses ago, fantastic picture, but useless stereo sound. My complaint at the time to the BBC was just returned with a very feeble excuse about bandwidth not being able to transmit HD with DD 5.1 sound?.

You can do it for Wimbledon, Football and New Years Eve Fireworks!, why not other broadcasts.

Why also does SKY transmit all their movies in BOTH with no problems?.

Again, Toy Story 2 was tranmitted recently on BBC HD, fantastic picture but again only stereo, although a label of 5.1 was attached, like JibberJabber quite rightly pointed out, Dolby will be none too pleased with this.

I think the BBC HD department needs to wake up to the fact that their HD offering needs a few more 'knowledgeable' people behind the scenes.

The BBC HD department would do a lot worse than follow some of the HD forums like the ones at Digital Spy and AVForums mentioned by Seetha in her original post, they might actually knock their HD service back into something which showed so much promise at the start.

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