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When there was a BBC Drama "Jamaica Inn" it had about 4/5 million viewers and thousands of complaints, funny, there were many who said there was no issue on that.
SCD has 12 million viewers, there is little comment, maybe the rest were all concentrating on the show and not posting here, but the media comment I have looked is negligible. Jamaica Inns negative comments came in thick and fast during the show. The high varied Music, clapping, talking, going up and down, can be a test for some cheaper end TVs that as it goes from loud music to one person talking, or clapping, to another talking, it can get the TV changing its sound levels against the desired broadcast levels. And then that before the fact, that like our eyes, we all have different quality if hearing. A young mum can focus in on her toddler crying at a party, out of thirty kids, but older people may have difficulty focusing on one person when many are talking. So typically the older we are the harder it can be for us to listen in on a person talking over clapping, but young people listening have no issue. |
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Just cannot understand how the BBC are so dreadful with sound quality. ITV, CHANNEL 4 and 5 never have this problem. So much BBC live broadcast and drama are unwatchable now because of this problem but they just don't listen despite complaints.
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Dolby Digital ?
Is it me / Have I missed something or are the BBC no longer broadcasting in Dolby Digital 5.1?
I'd swear it was on Friday but not yesterday. Can anyone enlighten me please? Thanks |
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I watch it in HD on Freeview using a sound bar for the audio. The music I though had excellent sound qualities, that's all that matters to me.
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Yet again BBC delivering crap sound quality or is it just me.
On Friday night the voice-over from Alan whatisname sounded as if he was in a tin box. Basically, awful. Later in the show it improved in quality and on Saturday night it was perfectly fine. It seems to happen every year on SCD. Sound balance is inevitably poor, for example, when they go to Blackpool, for and they correct it on the fly through the show. Surely those issues should be sorted on the run through before transmission. However, on a more positive note, the earlier poor sound quality on Friday did tone down the incessant, unnecessary and distracting clapping. If the dancers are dancing to the music, I would have thought that would be their preference rather than listening to an often slightly off the beat hand-capping. (Otherwise, cut the orchestra and let the audience do all the work - for free.) The one good thing of course, is that during the course of the show they all get tired and towards the end the clapping is almost, almost but not quite, bearable. In our humble abode we tune to watch and enjoy the dancing, hear the music and the Judges. We do not tune to watch frenetic and pointless hand clapping that overpowers everything else. |
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Quite surprised reading this. I had absolutely no sound issues on Friday or Saturday night. The broadcast sound I received was perfect.
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Is it me / Have I missed something or are the BBC no longer broadcasting in Dolby Digital 5.1?
I'd swear it was on Friday but not yesterday. Can anyone enlighten me please? Thanks |
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Seems like it was an issue that only impacted the Sky HD feed. For avoidance of doubt, I had the issue on all TVs in the house (one high-end). I'm in no doubt that this was not a hardware issue, but an issue with transmission to the Sky BBC One HD broadcast.
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I watched it on Sky BBC One HD, and didn't notice any issues.
As did I, and, as I posted originally, the initial quality was awful on Sky + HD |
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this thread is not as enlightening as it could be, is it?
To provide a proper insight, we need to know things like - what channel - what resolution or bitrate it was - what audio setup was used. E.g. Dolby 2.0, Dolby 5.1, unspecified stereo, etc. - what provider or carrier it came through- sky dish, cable, satellite free to air, DVB aerial, iplayer? still sounds to me like it might be a downmixing problem from a HD source to lesser audio setups contributing to veiling spoken parts which were easier to pick out on a system with a separate centre speaker. But I wouldn't know because I only get it in stereo. |
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