BBC Breakfast varying quality

[pr0t]

We watch BBC Breakfast most mornings. Last year we were delighted to hear that all transmissions including regional TV would be broadcast in HD, a change that was long overdue.  Since the change we regularly notice  that the transmission quality seems to vary quite dramatically. I'm not sure how you can check or quantify this, but visually it seems to swing between a pretty poor SD to an acceptable HD. We usually watch on a Sky mini box connected to a fairly recent LG  43UQ81006LB, although we've noticed the same problem when watching on our Sky Q/LG OLED set up in the sitting room. Channel is BBC One Wst HD.  Broadband speed is a solid 36MB down and 9MB up.  Are we alone in noticing this? 

[Jones_The_Cat]

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@pr0t wrote:

We watch BBC Breakfast most mornings. Last year we were delighted to hear that all transmissions including regional TV would be broadcast in HD, a change that was long overdue.  Since the change we regularly notice  that the transmission quality seems to vary quite dramatically. I'm not sure how you can check or quantify this, but visually it seems to swing between a pretty poor SD to an acceptable HD. We usually watch on a Sky mini box connected to a fairly recent LG  43UQ81006LB, although we've noticed the same problem when watching on our Sky Q/LG OLED set up in the sitting room. Channel is BBC One Wst HD.  Broadband speed is a solid 36MB down and 9MB up.  Are we alone in noticing this? 

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Your broadband speed has no effect on picture quality if you are watching via the live satellite feed or a recording made of the satellite feed.

If you are watching via the BBC iPlayer app then broadband speed can affect picture quality. 

[xenon81 · Accepted solution]

Although all BBC One regions are now in HD, some of the local news programmes aren't. In these regions you will notice the picture quality decline shortly before the local news (when the local studio takes control of the feed) and then return to HD soon after the local news ends.  Sometimes they forget to release control of the feed and the picture remains lower quality for a while.

[cuke]

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@pr0t wrote:

We watch BBC Breakfast most mornings. Last year we were delighted to hear that all transmissions including regional TV would be broadcast in HD, a change that was long overdue.  Since the change we regularly notice  that the transmission quality seems to vary quite dramatically. I'm not sure how you can check or quantify this, but visually it seems to swing between a pretty poor SD to an acceptable HD. We usually watch on a Sky mini box connected to a fairly recent LG  43UQ81006LB, although we've noticed the same problem when watching on our Sky Q/LG OLED set up in the sitting room. Channel is BBC One Wst HD.  Broadband speed is a solid 36MB down and 9MB up.  Are we alone in noticing this? 

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This, the BBC confirmed this to me when I asked them the question. Our free to air service is still in the dark ages when compared to somewhere like France which is soon to convert all their broadcast's to HDR10..