Anyone else sick of seeing this....

[Lordbenny]

I like HD but when local London news comes on this bloody screen, and more annoyingly, music, and dog barks come on. Surely the technology exists to be able to broadcast local news on HD. It does my head in having to change channels to non HD just because the news is on.

Edited by Lordbenny on Sunday 13th December 19:39

Edited by Lordbenny on Sunday 13th December 21:45

[Mr Pointy]

Yes the technology exists but the BBC has a policy of having the same services on Freesat as there are on Freeview so they don't think spunking out on something like another 11 satellite transponders is cost effective just for local news. I tend to agree.

[AWRacing]

Yep, cant for the life of me understand why all the local BBC channels aren’t broadcasting in HD these days.

[M4SER]

Lordbenny said:

I like HD but when loval London news comes on this bloody screen, and more annoyingly, music, comes on. Surely the technology exists to be able to broadcast local news on HD. I does my head in having to change channels to non HD just because the news is on.

And I thought it was just me!
Thanks for posting..

[Tycho]

AWRacing said:

Yep, cant for the life of me understand why all the local BBC channels aren’t broadcasting in HD these days.

Cost, it is about £1m for each station to rent the transponder space IIRC. This isn’t really needed to cover the type of stories on local news imho.

[Ladders]

Drives me mad to!

Why can’t they just patch in the Normal res news into the HD version so you don’t get that holding screen?

[V8covin]

Mr Pointy said:

Yes the technology exists but the BBC has a policy of having the same services on Freesat as there are on Freeview so they don't think spunking out on something like another 11 satellite transponders is cost effective just for local news. I tend to agree.

Then the policy should change

[Doofus]

I have channel 1 and channel 101 in my favourites. I watch channel 1 in the morning, over my breakfast, and 101 at any other time.

It never even occurred to me to get aerated about it.

[bristolracer]

Theres a good explanation here

https://amp.reddit.com/r/AskUK/comments/a5nb46/why...

Cost is the underlying factor

[Lordbenny]

bristolracer said:

Theres a good explanation here

https://amp.reddit.com/r/AskUK/comments/a5nb46/why...

Cost is the underlying factor

They could start with London as the tech is already there.

[Evercross]

Not a problem in Scotland.

Just saying, like.....!

[droopsnoot]

Lordbenny said:

I like HD but when local London news comes on this bloody screen, and more annoyingly, music, and dog barks come on. Surely the technology exists to be able to broadcast local news on HD. It does my head in having to change channels to non HD just because the news is on.

It annoys me, too, not least because it's the same piece of music every time. I'm sure it can't be as simple as just patching in the SD news to the HD broadcast because of the problem of getting the "right" local news programme, but anything would be better than the same piece of music every time. Anything that isn't just the same thing over and over.

[bristolracer]

Evercross said:

Not a problem in Scotland.

Just saying, like.....!

Fine if you want to watch Nippy's propaganda channel
Just saying,like.......;)

[TheInternet]

Lordbenny said:

They could start with London as the tech is already there.

Alas this would cause the London news to be seen throughout England, which is undesirable.

[TheInternet]

bristolracer said:

Theres a good explanation here

https://amp.reddit.com/r/AskUK/comments/a5nb46/why...

Cost is the underlying factor

The linked summary is not too bad, but of course your comment is most succinct.

[Evercross]

bristolracer said:

Evercross said:

Not a problem in Scotland.

Just saying, like.....!

Fine if you want to watch Nippy's propaganda channel
Just saying,like.......;)

It's the reason for it - BBC are st-scared of her and the SNP mob. All notions of impartiality regarding the SNP and equal scrutiny like any other political party departed BBC Scotland long ago.....

[TheInternet]

Evercross said:

It's the reason for it - BBC are st-scared of her and the SNP mob.

Nothing to do with that, the nations have all had their own BBC One and have done for years. The red slate is English regional thing.

[Evercross]

TheInternet said:

Nothing to do with that, the nations have all had their own BBC One and have done for years. The red slate is English regional thing.

Hmmm. Do all the nations have their own separate HD regional channel though (and I don't mean regional variations of BBC 1 and 2)??

I was referring to the cost of HD transponders BTW. IMO it is unfair that Scotland gets two when there are regions in rUK with a greater population than Scotland that don't even get one.

Edited by Evercross on Monday 14th December 13:20

[Luke-36]

Always makes me laugh. Watching National news in HD, then it switches to local news and it looks like you've gone back in time 20 years. Grainy, crap sound. I can log on to YouTube and watch people make beer in sheds, review video games etc in 4k HD if I want, but still in 2020 we can't watch local news broadcast to many thousands of people 365 days a year to the same quality.

Cost aside and understood, they need to find a way around it to bring themselves up to the 21st century.

[Lordbenny]

Luke-36 said:

Always makes me laugh. Watching National news in HD, then it switches to local news and it looks like you've gone back in time 20 years. Grainy, crap sound. I can log on to YouTube and watch people make beer in sheds, review video games etc in 4k HD if I want, but still in 2020 we can't watch local news broadcast to many thousands of people 365 days a year to the same quality.

Cost aside and understood, they need to find a way around it to bring themselves up to the 21st century.

^^^^^^ Exactly This ^^^^^^