Originally Posted by Flyer 10:
“They finally admitted it was shit?”
They took this sentence from the BBC HD service licence:
"BBC HD should deliver a very high quality technical service to viewers, by adhering to, or seeking to exceed, industry standards for picture resolution."
and decided that it had to be subject to a) a value for money clause and b) spectrum availability on DTT. So now it doesn't even have to adhere to industry standards for picture resolution. The substance of the complaints about reduction in PQ seem therefore to have been ignored on the grounds that they were irrelevant. See the carefully worded actual decision: "The Committee concluded that it did not agree that BBC HD picture quality
was falling short of requirements, and therefore these complaints were not upheld."
Case closed (as you rapidly find out if you try to bring it up on, for instance, the BBC blog on the S2 change).
Having said all that, PQ has got
a lot better since then.