BBC HD Campaign to Improve PQ - Some Background Information

I thought it would be useful to add some background information - primarily by way of links to further reading - to help explain why I started the campaign

The BBC Internet HDTV Blog is the best place to read the BBC's own position on this issue, and to gauge the response it has bought from viewers.
Specifically, read the blogs by Danielle Nagler, Head of BBC HD

• Picture Quality on BBC HD: A response
• Points of View and HD Picture Quality: A response
• BBC HD Picture Quality: Some myths laid to rest

Also, the Hitchhikers Guide to Encoding, a series of more technical blogs by Andy Quested, Principal HD Technologist at BBC

As you can see, these blogs have drawn a big response from viewers.
You probably haven't got time to read them all, so I would like to single out Paul Geaton's comments as worth reading. Following some Freedom of Information (FOI) requests that Paul made, he has also escalated his own complaints about the BBC HD PQ up to the BBC Trust, and has created his own website to support this

For an interesting perspective from William Cooper, an ex-BBC executive, see BBC HD quality definition draws criticism from viewers

Meanwhile, the independent consumer body Which? claim to that it "proves no loss of quality in BBC HD signal" . Though no real detail in their testing methodology is given.