I set a series link for Strictly on HD last Friday. Discovered that the Sat episode did not record. I had a look at the EPG today and I see that the Friday and Saturday episodes on HD have different series CRIDs. The BBC1 CRIDs are the same for Friday and Saturday.
Anyone know the reason for this

Welcome to the forum fat-tony


Yes the BBC are a bunch of useless a*ses

Well I didn't intend to provoke a reaction like that on my first post, but thanks for the welcome
I know that the last series of "Strictly" was transmitted on Saturdays in both SD and HD, but the Sunday programme was only on SD due to scheduling issues etc. I though maybe the Beeb needed to have different CRIDs on HD this time around for some technical reason

The BBC are not flavour of the month with the HD quality and the fact that they seem to care little about altering CRID data at will leading to series linked recordings stuttering half away through the series. But the response I gave wasn't with venom, just venting off.


No I think they just got it wrong

If the BBC HD quality is somewhat less than perfect and the sound is dubious in some cases. What have we left? The problem is; we cannot vote with our feet. There is nowhere to go. If Sky were responsible for the quality of broadcasts, we as viewers could just move to another company such as Virgin. But if the BBC decide that quality is not an issue worth persuing, what do we do? There are many excellent programs coming from the BBC, shouldn't we be able to expect broadcast quality to match.

If for instance "Strictly Come Dancing" is your favourite program you cant just switch over to another broadcaster, so you are stuck with poor quality and it shouldn't be like that. We as licence payers are entitled to the best. If the BBC says it cant afford the best, let them stop paying huge amounts of money to the likes of Jonathon Ross, and put the money into investment instead

theShadowman is quite correct in everything he says but saying it here isn't going to get it changed. There must be an email address for complaints or comments on the BBC website so if everyone with a (justifiable) gripe posted it there things might improve. It would also be a good idea to complain to your MP. I don't think the BBC is very popular with most of them either so an real ammunition that they can use against the BBC would probably be very welcome.

Well, someone in the BBC has twigged it!
The series CRID for Friday and Saturday are now the same and my HDR has them both flagged for recording - success

Why are the BBC paying £800K for someone to read the news? I was not aware that tere was a world wide shortage of Newsreaders

I dont understand why the BBC does not precompress or buffer the data. That way you get decent HD quality. Take a look at the Luxe HD and compare it to what goes as HD on the BBC. Luxe precompress their programes and the differences is staggering

Given most programes except sport & news are recorded there is no reason why the BBC could not do it.

I would sooner have good HD then the sliht improvement on SD that the BBC call HD