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BBC HD Eurovision Sound Problems 01:29am on 08 Jun 2008 I see (and hear) that the incorrect labelling of stereo (2.0) broadcasts has been resolved. So thank you for this fix BBC HD.

We can now enjoy 2.0 broadcasts correctly as well as 5.1 broadcasts.
BBC HD Eurovision Sound Problems 03:16am on 03 Jun 2008 Oh yes, and RobotFlyingDog, "normal" for BBC HD is Dolby Digital 2.0 being broadcast with the incorrect label of 5.1, thus eliminating any possibility for the viewer to use Pro-logic modes and giving inferior sound as the subwoofer sits there like a div all day doing hardly anything!

Dolby Digital should be broadcast with the correct labelling, so Dolby Digital Stereo should be labelled as 2.0 and 5.1 as 5.1!

I am sure that if Dolby Labs found out about this, they wouldn't be very happy about it. As it is not only bad for the BBC's reputation but also impacts poorly on Dolby itself!
BBC HD Eurovision Sound Problems 03:10am on 03 Jun 2008 I think FlyingRobotDog is onto something here (and I don't mean a hi-tech bone)! LOL.

It would appear that BBC HD's content is not monitored very regularly. This is backed up by a member in the digitalspy forums calling up the BBC faults line when the problem just occured, to be told "we are not aware of a problem".

It is also backed up by the fact that it took more than half an hour to switch to the "contingency plan" (and wildarpanet, by contingency plan they simply mean switching from the HD feed to an SD feed just in the way that cinemas would switch to a stereo analogue track when the Dolby Digital track goes down).

If the BBC were one of my pupils it would be a case of "could do better".

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