| Wallander
Did anyone see Wallander on BBC HD last night?
I think that pretty much summed up what's wrong with BBC HD right now.
Last year the program displayed some of the best HD PQ that the channel had showed mainly due to it being shot on the RED HD cameras (the 1st BBC drama to use RED). The opening scene of the first episode where Wallander walked through the yellow rapeseed field to reach a girl, who was pouring petrol over herself, was totally stunning.
Then we come to this year, and last night's episode... what a mess. At times it was like the picture was grey and fuzzy, with no depth, no detail, unless everything in the picture was still, but as soon as there was movement, all detail was lost again. As for the dark scenes, the digital blocking was terrible.
Perhaps the Beeb are using this as a ploy for us to all rush out and buy Blu-Ray box sets of these series, so we can actually see them in real HD, and therefore also bolster the BBC coffers!
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