> But I'd certainly advise the BBC of the issue through the 
> iPlayer help system.

Interestingly since Monday I've noticed that during the day the BBC seems to 
have introduced a Live Chat feature on the iPlayer Help Pages. When it is 
available it appears as a tab on the right hand side of the page when you visit 
one of the FAQs.

On the HD/SD availability question, It's always seemed to me that setting the 
listings up and selecting which programmes are going to become available etc is 
a manual job. It does seem prone to human error.

In the past if you tried to look more than 7 days ahead, you would get a 
schedule page where everything was marked as Not Available so I think before it 
makes it onto the listings properly, someone actually has to go through and 
mark what is and what isn't available and presumably also what formats it will 
be transcoded into.

Eggheads for example has always been available in HD and since Monday 20th 
April, there has been no HD option available. They have dropped back from 
series 16 to series 11 but if you search on iPlayer there are episodes from 
series 11 that are available in HD that were broadcast a few weeks ago so it 
does seem to be inconsistency.

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