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Listed below are comments made by jasonic8 between Friday, 3rd July 2009 and Saturday, 19th September 2009.

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Picture Quality on BBC HD: a response 11:04am on 19 Sep 2009 Andy thanks for the comment. It doesn't really answer the question about efficient use of the spectrum though as Dianielle brought up in her post.

In this day and age there should be a more sophisticated mechanism instead of using 18 almost duplicate channels. And that's just the BBC ones, when you look at ITV and C4 it comes to around 48 I think. That's a travesty! Satellite just doesn't suit regional variations like this. Does the USA have 45 transmissions for each channel? (45 is population based equivalent, if each state had on avg. 9 regions like BBC1&2 do between them, then it would be 468 veriants per channel). Regional information is on Freeview - it's the logical place for it. Perhaps there should be one channel on satellite dedicated to running local news on a continual loop for those that can't get freeview. You'd just tune in when your area is on. Or get a PVR to always cache the latest local news, so you can always watch it (dedicated tuner required -I know - unless that loop goes on every transponder to give 11 instead of 48 channels extra..hmmm...).
Picture Quality on BBC HD: a response 9:11pm on 18 Sep 2009 "The BBC has an absolute responsibility to use bandwidth efficiently - whether on digital terrestrial muxes or on satellite"

In what way is satellite bandwidth used efficiently by broadcasting 18 further regional variations of 2 channels on 2D? I understand how it has no effect on terrestial bandwidth,where the distribution mechanism is regional, but on satellite they consume 18 further channels. HD is reducing bandwidth to make more room when so much is being used for these redundant/duplicate transmissions.
BBC HD: Wimbledon and some Top Gear questions 1:37pm on 03 Jul 2009 Top Gear's Polar Expedition episode looked great - I thought it was a sign of things to come and so have been disappointed that it hasn't come to fruition. It's a flagship program for the BBC, exported and followed by many around the world - I'm very surprised the decision to keep it in SD has (apparently) been made. Let's hope it's available in time for Freeview-HD in December (btw. any news on DVB-T2 hardware that will be required for this?)

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