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Listed below are comments made by KevinW63 between Monday, 18th August 2008 and Tuesday, 23rd June 2009.

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HD Masters Conference Keynote Speech, 23 June 2009 7:48pm on 23 Jun 2009 I have tried to refrain from posting in response to your blog as I feel you do not keep us all as up to date as you could with your irregular posts.
This cannot be said about todays post though.
I have to ask though,if HD is so important to you and the BBC then why, oh why, do we keep getting SD broadcasts of programmes ahead of the HD broadcast ?? You have told me in the past that you are not allowed to give the HD channel the first `airing` of a programme but if its going to be shown in HD why do we have to wait sometimes many days for this to happen ??
Obama's inauguration on BBC HD 10:37am on 27 Feb 2009 Andrew,
I am not asking anyone to spend any particular amount of time per year let alone half an hour a day.
The points that I have raised about the amount of time since a `full / normal` blog from Danielle is because of 2 main reasons.

Firstly if someone in Danielles position makes a point of saying when they take up their post that they intend to do a blog. This is done by them of their own free will. However once she has made that public commitment to us, it is only reasonable, in my opinion, for us to expect her to honour that commitment and keep us informed via the blog. If you look at the frequency of her blog entries we can see that they have been less frequent as time has gone by and apart from DOG comments and BBC HD`s birthday & Obamas inauguration there have not been any blog updates for quite a while. I am sure that things must be happening with the HD channel and also feel that response comments have been raised by readers of the blog that have not been responded by Danielle.

Secondly, no matter who is doing a blog, if it suddenly stops, surely it is better for the author of the blog to see that readers of the blog have noticed and are missing the blog than there to be no comment at all and therefor was it worth doing a blog in the first place.

If Danielle feels that she does not have timeto update her blog for whatever reason then all she has to is post an update to that effect and then it is up to you and Danielle if it is continued with.
Obama's inauguration on BBC HD 12:39pm on 26 Feb 2009 I have just watched Natures Great Events after recording last nights prog. I think the picture quality was excellent. I did however have quite a few sound `drop outs` in the 5.1 - they seemed to be mainly after the first two thirds of the programme, a shame that this still seems to be happening so frequently.
Obama's inauguration on BBC HD 7:05pm on 25 Feb 2009 In light of the lack of updates from Danielle, should this blog be renamed Andrew Knight o.b.o. BBC HD .... ?

Surely there must have been something worth Danielle updating us on that has happened in BBC HD land.
Obama's inauguration on BBC HD 4:28pm on 13 Feb 2009 I have not time at the moment to check but there were 47 posts in response to Danielles blog and I am sure there were points raised of which not all were DOG related.
It seems if my memory serves me right that the only things covered were DOG and the coverage in HD of the US Presidential inauguration in subsequent Blogs.
The point I am trying to make here is that we are surely due for a blog update .... if Danielle is going to do a blog to `keep us informed` of what is happening with the channel then surely we should be given update as frequently as possible. I know, as I have said before that she must be busy but I cant believe that nothing has happened since early December apart from more DOG issues.
Obama's inauguration on BBC HD 1:07pm on 13 Feb 2009 Previous post by me and response ;-

3. At 7:00pm on 14 Jan 2009, KevinW63 wrote:
Hi Danielle,
Sorry to be critical but......I would have thought that there was a lot more for you to comment on in response to comments made by HD viewers and readers of your blog.
Just to cover the DOG issue seems a bit of a token gesture to me.

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4. At 7:18pm on 14 Jan 2009, NickReynolds wrote:
KevinW63 - I'm sure that Danielle will respond to comments about other things in time.

But as the editor of this blog I encouraged her to respond specifically to the DOGs issue as it is something that some BBC HD viewers care passionately about.

This was in response to Danielle`s limited blog update of the 14th January where she only seemed to respond to DOG issues. I thought that many other points were raised in response to Danielles previous blog update of 7th December 08 that have not been responded to.

Hence my post about when the next blog update is due.

If a blog is going to be done by Danielle then is it not a reasonable thing to expect a regular update ?
Obama's inauguration on BBC HD 4:09pm on 11 Feb 2009 Hi Danielle,
It has been quite a while since you have fully updated your blog.
I know you must be busy but if you are going to do a blog to let us know what is happening in BBC HD land then surely you owe it to us to respond to comments and questions raised ??
BBC HD: "Creeping" DOGs Update 7:00pm on 14 Jan 2009 Hi Danielle,
Sorry to be critical but......I would have thought that there was a lot more for you to comment on in response to comments made by HD viewers and readers of your blog.
Just to cover the DOG issue seems a bit of a token gesture to me.
Happy Birthday BBC HD 12:06pm on 07 Dec 2008 Yes, Happy Birthday !

I am sure most of us are happy to have a `quality` HD channel doing what the BBC does best - quality programmes.

Like many others I feel there are things that need to change but hopefully that will come with time.

If I was to have a `wish list` for year 2 it would be ; DOG - get rid, Repeats - less of, Scheduling - give us at least simulcast of programmes & no more waiting for the HD broadcast days or weeks after airing on SD channel. Last of all please Santa bring me F1 in HD next season !

Cheers BBC HD !!!
BBC HD DOG Level: Your Comments 11:00am on 18 Aug 2008 Hi Danielle,

I had to just quickly post this after having watched Pacific Abyss.

If ever there was a programme that would have benefited by being shown in HD more than this I have yet to see it !

I searched every source I know to see if this was going to be shown in HD but found no indication that it will.
If not why not ? if it is then why oh why can`t that information be given to the viewers ?
I should point out that I checked the Radio Times first ( I have now cancelled my R.T. subscription as I am determined to find some source of getting this info - as yet with no joy ).

Please please please this is the sort of series that HD was made for.

Give it to us in HD.

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