GET OFF YOUR SOAP BOX!

Stop! Stop everything! Everything is OK. Nothing to worry about regarding BBC HD picture quality. All sorted, Which? Labs have decreed that BBC HD is ‘in the clear’!

Phew!

Even though it is Christmas Day those backing the Campaign for BBC HD picture quality never rest. In between Christmas Dinner courses Paul Eaton sniffed out a little interesting piece of opinion from Which? Labs. After ‘expert’ viewing panels compared BBC HD material from before and after the August bitrate and encoder changes, Michael Briggs, Which? TV expert said:

‘Even with the change in picture quality between programmes we assert that all BBC HD broadcasts are all of an HD quality. If there is any difference between the new HD broadcasts and the old HD broadcasts, then it is tiny, and smaller than the existing differences between any two HD programmes filmed in a studio or on location.’

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As 2009 draws to an end and with the growing momentum behind the BBC HD Picture Quality Campaign I thought I would sit down, put my feet up and watch a bit of TV. Bridget Jones on ITV and on pressing the red button, she appeared in glorious High Definition. Well, that’s maybe a slight exaggeration. Whilst all the attention amongst viewers has been directed at BBC HD and it’s picture issues and bitrate, I, for one, had forgotten about the mediocre HD service from ITV.

So why is it easy to forget ITV HD?

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The true meaning of Christmas? Well, I don’t want to go too deep here on this one but I was listening to BBC 5 Live today and I heard two different stories about society in Britain at this festive time.

Christmas is about religion, faith, the principles laid down by the church. The remembrance of the death of Jesus Christ. A time for families to get together to celebrate and give gifts. Share the love.

Firstly, let’s not forget the thousands of British forces personnel that won’t be with their families this Christmas. And, the brave job they are doing. So using that as a backdrop we then get some jackass called the Father Tim Jones, from St. Hilda in York, telling his flock of sheep that it acceptable to shoplift. That poor and vulnerable people should shoplift…steal.

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THE CAMPAIGN COMES TO FACEBOOK!

For those wishing to raise the profile of this campaign and to make sure ‘our voice’ continues to be heard please join the BBC HD Picture Quality Campaign Group.

Please join and have you say!

“A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.” Winston Churchill

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I used to like Johnny Ball’s ‘Think of a number’ programme.

So the number of complaints received by the BBC regarding BBC HD picture quality is not 1 but 130. The initial online story by Zoe Kleinman, the Technology Reporter for BBC News stated one ‘formal’ complaint. But she has clarified the ‘actual’ number in comments on the latest BBC HD blog.

130, 130, 130 I have…any advances on 130?

Paul Eaton of BBC FOI HD has received more than 130 himself. To help get a true number of complaints, Paul is suggesting adding your complaint to the comments of the latest BBC HD Blog:

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