MANDELA FUNERAL: SD on BBC HD but HD on Al Jazeera Freeview HD!
zandar
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Can anyone explain how the BBC have managed to downgrade the HD pictures to SD on both BBC 1 HD & News HD for the Mandela Funeral yet at the same time, Al Jazeera News HD (Freeview) are showing the funeral in High Definition?
It is also rather odd that the BBC have chosen to switch 'Breakfast' to BBC 2 - well until 7.30am this Sunday - to allow the Mandela Funeral to be on BOTH BBC 1 & BBC News. At 7.30am, BBC 2 switched to Football highlights. Why does the Mandela funeral need to be on two BBC channels?
It is also rather odd that the BBC have chosen to switch 'Breakfast' to BBC 2 - well until 7.30am this Sunday - to allow the Mandela Funeral to be on BOTH BBC 1 & BBC News. At 7.30am, BBC 2 switched to Football highlights. Why does the Mandela funeral need to be on two BBC channels?
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The funeral is on BBC One/HD and it is on BBC News/HD unless there is breaking news elsewhere.
Take your point though - BBC fly out hundreds of people to SA and yet fail to secure HD coverage.
Of course it doesn't need to be on two BBC channels just as PMQs doesn't need to be on three BBC Channels (BBC2, News and Parliament). BBC News channel should be providing a ''normal'' Breakfast programme as it did up to 7.30 as there seems to be plenty else going on in the world, but that sort of decision seems to be beyond the management of BBC News.
BBC News - takes feed from BBC Parliament, adding news ticker & clock, and allows for the news channel to cut away should a breaking news item occur. I guess that PMQs is seen as a news event (Sky News carries the feed as well). There is no additional anaysis.
BBC Parliament - the live and unadulterated feed from Parliament, with no audio commentary, no additional graphics or on-screen commentary, no analysis, and no cutaways to any guests.
So it's horses for courses, especially the BBC Two outing which forms part of a wider programme. If there is a superfluous broadcast, it would be that which appears on the News channel.
They occasionally opted out of the Six when they were at Tvc, but is there likely to be anything bigger than Mandela this morning?
Candles look lovely in HD
Extremely odd for BBC not to be outputting the feed in HD. I suspect a technical problem more than anything else - I doubt they would deliberately pick SD when they've been using HD for the rest of the feeds this week.
I agree, the BBC has the worst pictures of the bunch.
Perhaps the BBC, having shipped 140+ staff to South Africa, decided to save a few bucks by downgrading the HD pictures to SD? (I bet the staff were 'pleased' that Nelson died during our winter. I wonder how many are going to stay on and enjoy the South African summer over the Christmas holidays)?
Cheap shot indeed, especially considering that many people will want to be with their families over Christmas
Can we please keep the conspiracy theories out of the thread? It really does not help when people start making things up. That's been half the problem with the threads this week - comments like this just add unnecessary fuel to the fire.
I have eNCA on my TV right next to my PC showing BBC One HD and did think the eNCA image looked miles better the the BBC (and we all know eNCA is far from HD quality!). I just assumed that BBC HD didn't look as good because its being displayed on a monitor feed by VGA cable rather than DVI/HDMI.
I should probably check the old OB trolley hasn't been nicked from my Uni's TV station. It's about comparable quality.
What amuses me is the colour artifacts visible on some shots, Not sure the exact word for it, but it's like the 90s again.
Making things up on DS - perish the thought:p
And now News Channel is using HD footage. So as we figured - it was because it was being produced in SA.