A petition was started yesterday over the fall in the picture quality on BBC HD due to the use of an alleged inadequate bit rate on the new encoder thats resulted in blurry, unsharp and at times pixellated pictures on BBC HD (previously BBC HD was the best channel for PQ). I understand the bit rate at 9.8mbs is below the European Broadcasting Union MINIMUM recommended limit for HD of 12mbs.
Those of you who have been following this will know this debate has been raging for months now with posts running into hundreds of responses on the BBC Blog and other forums from angry Freesat and Sky users. At times pictures on SD channels such as Ch4 have appeared better in some users eyes than BBC HD.
As a result of a total lack of response from the BBC management in returning the PQ to what it was before, the petiton has been started.
If you value your HD viewing experience both now and for the future, then I suggest you consider signing.
The petition can be found here:
http://petitions.number10.gov.uk/BBCHDPQ/
This isn't my petition but as someone concerned about the huge drop in BBC HD PQ I thought that it deserved to be brought to your attention.
Those of you who have been following this will know this debate has been raging for months now with posts running into hundreds of responses on the BBC Blog and other forums from angry Freesat and Sky users. At times pictures on SD channels such as Ch4 have appeared better in some users eyes than BBC HD.
As a result of a total lack of response from the BBC management in returning the PQ to what it was before, the petiton has been started.
If you value your HD viewing experience both now and for the future, then I suggest you consider signing.
The petition can be found here:
http://petitions.number10.gov.uk/BBCHDPQ/
This isn't my petition but as someone concerned about the huge drop in BBC HD PQ I thought that it deserved to be brought to your attention.