The onslaught of complaint regarding BBC’s HD quality finally won through with a raft of picture quality improvements following weeks of campaigners taking their grievances direct to the channels’ hierarchy.

The grief all started last August when the BBC introduced new HiDef encoders that reduced bandwidth below that of Sky’s HD and even their own BBC HD Worldwide channel. What made matters worse was the BBC claim that it was a variation in production styles that caused the picture quality drop. A full account of the campaigners visit to the BBC can be found on the BBC internet blog.

Further good news on the BBC front is the autumn launch of BBC1 HD elevating much of the top viewing programmes to HD status.