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There does seem to be some garbage transfers of BBC content being given to UKTV right now though, for a several months now they seem to have been recieving copies of shows that are filmised and generally look terrible. It's affected several shows, like EastEnders, Howards Way and Some Mothers Do 'ave em, I won't be suprised if it affects the run of Casualty from episode 1 that starts tomorrow as well. This has been going on for months and seemingly hasn't been noticed or fixed, which speaks volumes for whatever quality control's in place.

And it does just seem to be new content and transfers coming from the BBC, not from elsewhere- for example it's not affecting the current run of The Bill which is also using new copies (all the past runs were in 4:3, these are 16:9 and with the new Fremantle logo at the end). Ironically though, this current batch of episodes from 2003 had always been filmised on all the previous UKTV runs across Gold, Drama and Watch/W dating back to when they first showed them in 2004- presumably a mistake Fremantle made at the time, this is the first time they've been shown by UKTV in 50i.

I can only assume low quality filmised streaming copies keep being handed out by accident. In HD on GOLD, recent repeats Victoria Wood as Seen On TV look even more terrible, like watching a dodgy old DIVX. I can't believe nobody has flagged it. I emailed them about a similar PQ issue before and got no response.