Official response to the BBC HD quality issue

[admin_exported]

In case you are curious as to the official response:-

http://www.hmg.gov.uk/epetition-responses/petition-view.aspx?epref=BBCHDPQ

:-(

Serenity

 

[The_Lhc]

What exactly did you or indeed the people who set up this commission (edit: that should say "petition") expect? HMG are right, it's none of their business, if they DID get involved you'd probably have just as large a group of people protesting at "government interference" in the BBC!

If you want to complain, complain to the right people, the BBC Trust, you're just wasting your energy otherwise.

 

[Anonymous]

Ad hominem.

 

[The_Lhc]

Nevertheless you must have some interest in the subject otherwise you wouldn't have posted it. Anyway I did say "or the people that created the petition" so the general question still stands.

 

[Anonymous]

"Don't shoot the piano player; he's doing the best he can".

or

"Don't shoot the messenger" Antigone by Sophocles

 

[The_Lhc]

Yes, I understood your point the first time, the general question still stands however, as does my general point, that this petition was a complete waste of time and was never going to achieve anything.

 

[Anonymous]

"When you're in a hole, stop digging."
Denis Healey

;-)

PS
The other great one from DH is:-
The difference between tax avoidance and tax evasion is the thickness of a prison wall.

 

[The_Lhc]

I'm not the one in the hole mate...

 

[John Duncan]

Is this the five minute argument or the full half hour?

 

[Anonymous]

Hi JD
I'm somewhat mystified by the whole thing.

As you are someone who's opinion I respect, could you enlighten me as to which word, words or combination of words has caused this avalanche?

I'm just glad I'm not a News Presenter. After a typical day representing facts yesterday, I would have needed an armed police escort home. ;-)

Hi the_lhc

Sadly I have neither the wealth nor magical abilities of Paul Daniels, so I cannot conjuer something that does not exist out of thin air.

"You cant get blood from a stone"

Best
S