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IMG I was wondering which country you support to win this years eurovision and altho I am from Belgium I need to confess sweden is my favorite song.

I was embarrassed last week when and discussed the sound problems which affected the coverage of the on.I sincerely apologise. The programme was being broadcast with 5.1 surround sound, but due to a technical fault at Television Centre the left, right and surround audio tracks were blocked from reaching viewers' set-top boxes, preventing the audio being decoded correctly.We at BBC HD are mortified that the viewing of a much awaited event was ruined. We are urgently looking into how the problem occurred and why it took as long as it did to switch to our contingency plan. We want to ensure this sort of problem is not repeated.I will update you as soon as I can.Seetha Kumar is Head of HDTV, BBC Vision. My first thoughts were that it was a sound problem at the actual event and therefore ruining Andy's chances of winning, considering he appeared 2nd in the running order.Interested to know what the contingency plan is.

I never really thought much about the processes involved in getting programming to our screens, but after reading this blog you guys have switched on my inner geek.:)Do you guys at the BBC then inform BSkyB when you discover these problems?For me I would just assume it was either a problem at the event or a problem with my Sky box and would consequently ring Sky up. I think FlyingRobotDog is onto something here (and I don't mean a hi-tech bone)! LOL.It would appear that BBC HD's content is not monitored very regularly. 911 first responders brooklyn modem. This is backed up by a member in the digitalspy forums calling up the BBC faults line when the problem just occured, to be told 'we are not aware of a problem'.It is also backed up by the fact that it took more than half an hour to switch to the 'contingency plan' (and wildarpanet, by contingency plan they simply mean switching from the HD feed to an SD feed just in the way that cinemas would switch to a stereo analogue track when the Dolby Digital track goes down).If the BBC were one of my pupils it would be a case of 'could do better'. Oh yes, and RobotFlyingDog, 'normal' for BBC HD is Dolby Digital 2.0 being broadcast with the incorrect label of 5.1, thus eliminating any possibility for the viewer to use Pro-logic modes and giving inferior sound as the subwoofer sits there like a div all day doing hardly anything!Dolby Digital should be broadcast with the correct labelling, so Dolby Digital Stereo should be labelled as 2.0 and 5.1 as 5.1!I am sure that if Dolby Labs found out about this, they wouldn't be very happy about it. As it is not only bad for the BBC's reputation but also impacts poorly on Dolby itself! I have been a long term SKYHD subscriber, from launch day in fact in May 2006.

I have just joined this BBC forum as I really had to add to some of the very accurate comments here already.Jibberjabber above especially.2 years is a long time, certainly being able to monitor BBC HD and while I applaud the BBC for the free to air HD efforts such as Eurovision. The complete hash of the 2008 transmission has been one of a long list of technical inabilities over the years.I have been lucky to have lived with the original first year BBC HD quality in picture, never dropping below 19Mb transmission rates. Jools Holland was truly sublime in picture and in sound.Now two years on, the quality rate in picture has dropped enormously, in fact half the transmission rate and you really can see the difference.Monsters Inc was transmitted a couple of Christmasses ago, fantastic picture, but useless stereo sound.

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I see Seetha has been sooooooo busy;-) she has moved to another dept.Well good luck Seetha and hello Danielle Nagler.Perhaps Seetha can fill you in, still seems we are all waiting for the BBCHD quality to show it's face again after outstanding start on launch, 'test' launch I should say. To the very below par quality we have now, no Dolby Digital 5.1 correct through a lot of programming and the distinct reduction in picture quality. I have early Jools Holland shows on my HD box recorded a few years ago on launch which look a million miles away from the quality shown at the moment.One more thing!, why has the BBCHD DOG (onscreen graphic) been turned right up from a transparent white to full white in the last few days.I would watch the fallout from this one Danielle and welcome aboard!