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Round Up: Thursday 24 September 2009 1:36pm on 27 Sep 2009 have you discussed about a date of when to stop airing tv broadcasts in mpeg2 on Freeview boxes as we can't use mpeg2 forever and will you get force manufacturers to add mpeg4, aac and ac3 audio decoding capability in all new freeview boxes and built in tuners so that when we do switch to mpeg4 the numbers of tv's and boxes to be replaced will be more minimal?

all of virgin's cable boxes that customers receive now can decode mpeg4 so and have done for quite a while so that when they decide to switch to mpeg4 the number of boxes they need to replace will be quite low, will you be trying to implement such a system?

regarding the new copy protection of the EPG for hd freeview, will you be letting hauppage and other pc tv card manufacturers to use the EPG as i watch tv via my pc.
BBC HD Summer Fixtures 8:21pm on 18 Aug 2009 When will Mad Men Series 3 be airing on BBCHD? Episode 1 aired in american around 2 days ago.
BBC HD Summer Fixtures 1:37pm on 01 Aug 2009 Danielle, please can you air a 2hr or so highlights package of the swimming world championships on BBCHD, i and many others would be extremely greatful. All of phelps' races, all the british swimmers' races, all of pelegrini's races and other races that were great or that had big upsets, i'd really appreciate it and so would many others. I dont have eurosport HD:(
BBC HD Summer Fixtures 10:12pm on 30 Jul 2009 i agree about the swimming, i wanted to watch that on BBCHD or at the least BBC2, instead i had to watch it on the red button which is a poor 544x576i quality, the highlights are aired on BBC2 the day after for 1hr in regular 720x576i resolution but i think some of the races aren't aired on that. Its on eurosporthd, surely you could air the 1hr highlights program on BBCHD or even the live feed. Swimming in SD looks very poor as splashing water is incredibly pixelated especially at low bitrates. The olympic swimming on BBCHD last year was incredible, there are only 2 world championships per year and swimming has become rather popular since we won 2 gold medals and michael phelps becoming the greatest olympian of all time.

not having the French Open in HD was unforgivable. US Open Tennis is on in 1 month, PLEASE air murray's matches on BBCHD and also the semi's and finals of the mens and womens in HD.
Sport on BBC HD 12:01pm on 24 Jun 2009 cant you just zoom out slightly and ask the cameramen not to move the camera when it isn't completely necessary as 70% of the time it isn't necessary to move the camera left and right.

Apart from that and a few broadcast feed problems the wimbledon coverage has been good.

btw, regarding queens club, you're director was showing replays after nearly every shot in slow motion and that meant missing throwing the ball in the air on serves and sometimes hitting the ball which is incredibly annoying, hope you can have a word about that and make sure it doesnt happen in wimbledon this year, i dont remember it happening this year at wimbledon but definately dont want it to. Also please get some more microphones around the players' seats so we can hear arguments between them and the umpires. Directional microphones to aim at the players would be good too as they often joke around or query umpire decisions and we can't hear what the players are saying.

thanks.
Sport on BBC HD 8:24pm on 22 Jun 2009 i agree fanofhd, they do this for all bbc tennis, i like it sometimes as its more zoomed in, its easier to see if a ball goes out of the lines or not but that should only be done on slow shots like a lob. They should zoom out a little and only move it side to side when the ball is hit to the very side of the court requiring the player to go out of the court as constantly moving side to side makes it blurrier and you dont get to see the blades of grass in hd when there is motion.

p.s there were quite a few transmission problems with the video in today's tennis for which you put an onscreen text apology, hope it doesnt happen again.
Sport on BBC HD 6:16pm on 22 Jun 2009 editing wouldn't need to be in a suite at each stadium, match of the day airs hours after therefore the bbc can edit the football matches in an outside broadcast vehicle that they have at football matches they dont need to do it inside the stadiums.

Live matches yeah you may be right, you'd need some seriously long cables to reach to outside broadcast vehicles, obviously wembley stadium will have these facilities built in which is why we get to watch some big events from there. For non-live football an outside broadcast vehicle would be absolutely fine though.

BBCHD has been going for several years, such facilites should already be in place, its not a new channel. As for shows like the apprentice its just crazy, there cant be more than 12 cameras used, they should ask Sir Alan sugar if he'd like to donate to make it in HD.
Sport on BBC HD 3:15pm on 22 Jun 2009 I'd like to add, i have no complaints filming kids tv in HD as the bbc will be able to sell those shows abroad for quite alot of money, however, they do not need to be shown on BBCHD, the responses from the forums clearly show that the viewers dont want the kids shows airing.

I'm not complaining about formula1 not being in HD as that seems to be berny eccleston's fault in not letting people have it in HD, but match of the day should certainly be in HD, all premiership matches are filmed in HD, the bbc would just needs a handful of studio cameras for the studio talk from gary linekar etc. Football is our nation's number1 sport and yet we have so little of it on BBCHD.

You can't really excuse these problems, she needs to be more pro-active in lobbying to securing higher funds from the bbc trust and needs to spend the money in the right areas and shows that are filmed in hd should be aired in HD eg Stephen Fry Across America (which is out on bluray and STILL hasn't been aired on BBCHD).
Sport on BBC HD 3:07pm on 22 Jun 2009 nick i think we both know that not a single person in the last 9 months has said they want the DOG therefore keeping it is going against what the license payers want, which can only possibly be described as being a dictatorship of the channel. She has made awful excuses about maximising the length of the encoders to be fair to us which we all know isn't true. She is the head of the BBCHD channel, she needs to make a greater effort into securing a way higher budget than the pitiful amount that it currently receives. There are no repeats of many popular shows such as later with jools holland etc and yet we have 2yr old repeats of some shows and not a single person has posted saying they like the kids tv on bbchd, quite the opposite.

The BBC is supposed to represent the views of the license payer and adhere to complaints made which we have done in these blog posts but they have been ignored and not addressed.

Anyway i'll keep people posted on the outcome of the freedom of information request.
Sport on BBC HD 01:23am on 22 Jun 2009 i agree wednesday, Danielle has been awful, its a dictatorship not a publicly run channel, she decides what to do and ignores our countless posts about DOGS, no top gear etc etc. Just if we could get someone really famous to fight our cause and get 30,000 ppl to write in and complain, its about the only way danielle will change things to how WE the licence payers want.

And yes the bitrate is way too low, the bbc's encoders are incredibly poor in comparison to sky's and then she makes the awful excuse that she wants the public's money to be fully stretched out by not spending more on newer encoders, everyone can see through her lies, it needs to stop. Oh and the good old 1 about the bbc asking consumers and the majority saying they liked the dog, thats a complete lie. Why would you remove the dog on scripted tv shows do those viewers know what channel they are watching and documentary viewers dont?

Think i might start a facebook group to protest, i'm sure we can get a few thousand people to join. We should rename the channel to IRANHD, pretty similar style of dictatorship i think.

I'm going to put in a freedom of information request for the information that danielle said that people were asked if they liked the DOG and the majority said yes. I'll keep you guys posted on the outcome.

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