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Listed below are comments made by vascop between Tuesday, 30th September 2008 and Monday, 19th January 2009.

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A Christmas Present from the HD Channel! 10:17am on 19 Jan 2009 By the way Andy, did you remember to ask your colleagues about stereo from the Virgin Media V+ box?
On another topic with regard to picture quality. I think that ITV's SD pictures are often of better quality than the BBC SD & HD pictures. I went to a lot of trouble using specially purchased DVDs to adjust my TV picture. I mention this so that you don't think my observations are due to a badly adjusted set.
I have noticed that pictures of people outside look much better than in the studio these days. This didn't used to be the case.
Watching programs like "your country needs you" and other studio based programmes I have noticed that peoples faces on BBC appear washed out/flat/yellow - all detail lost, whereas on ITV you can see natural skin tones and details.
Also a lot of the lighting in BBC studios seems calculated to put an overall colour tinge to the picture as well.

In summary I think that the studio lighting and makeup leaves a lot to be desired.
A Christmas Present from the HD Channel! 3:39pm on 06 Jan 2009 My post is about sound not picture. I watched and listened to the Jools Holland program on New Year's Eve. I was very disappointed with the sound. I do not have an AV system, I just connected the sound output from my TV to a high quality stereo amplifier and speakers and the sound I heard was just mono. I am using a Virgin media V+ box connected to my TV via an HDMI cable. What do i need to do to get stereo sound from HD TV please? When I play a DVD also connected to my TV via HDMI and connect my TV to my amp I get great stereo sound. Thanks in advance for any help
iPlayer Day: A year under the hood 08:48am on 13 Dec 2008 For me the event of the year was when iPlayer became available via the Virgin V+ box.
With one single box I have recording facilities and access to iPlayer. Bliss!
Keep up the good work!
BBC TV on the web redefined 7:02pm on 30 Sep 2008 Yes I agree with a lot of comments complaining that it's not easy to just find out what's on ALL channels and see it on ONE page.
Also don't like links at bottom of a LONG page - say BBC! abd linking to BBC2.
Please bring back the REALLY useful, easy to use and QUICK old pages. I know you won't but then I'll just stop using what used to be one of my favourite web sites.

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