In article <33d41029-e8b7-f5e5-2424-3b4f2f7d2...@macfh.co.uk>, MacFH - C E Macfarlane <c.e.macfarl...@macfh.co.uk> wrote: > Please see below ... [snip]
> However, like you, I'm beginning to get concerned at the moving > deck-chairs because it usually means that something good disappears and > what we're left with is not as good. The loss of hi-def audio in hi-def > video is a classic case in point: Why would *anyone* think that the > quality of the audio track is any less important than the quality of the > video track, *especially* where music is concerned, such as with the > Proms? Given the above, I didn't bother to download the TV version of a > single prom this year. I asked about this and the reason given was that the high res video with 320k sound borked too many user-devices which failed to correctly specify what they could handle. As a result, there were complaints, and the BBC decided it was simpler to end the 320k altogether. We got it for years after this because they forgot to switch off generating it! I agree this is crazy, but the BBC tend to be blamed when user devices don't cope. > The above also makes me wonder if this is the reason that increasingly I > find I have to turn the volume up when watching TV, because words get > lost in the 'mush'. I suspect that's more down to producers who want sound to be like it. Hence all the complaints to Radio Times, etc, about mumbling actors... I also focussed on DVB-T2 for Proms videos this year. Where, of course, other deckchairs have been shuffled, with more to come, and also the threat to the muxes which might axe BBC4 TV entirely! :-/ Our local muxs just got shuffled and the details were nothing like what was pre-announced. Still, makes life interesting, dunnit! ;-> Jim -- Electronics https://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/~www_pa/Scots_Guide/intro/electron.htm Armstrong Audio http://www.audiomisc.co.uk/Armstrong/armstrong.html biog http://jcgl.orpheusweb.co.uk/history/ups_and_downs.html Audio Misc http://www.audiomisc.co.uk/index.html _______________________________________________ get_iplayer mailing list get_iplayer@lists.infradead.org http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/get_iplayer
