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With large screen TV's now increasingly common, any digital channels that do not use a high enough data (bit) rate will display a number of artefacts and/or a lack of sharpness when viewed on these larger screens. For owners of large screens often the only alternative to get a picture quality sufficient for their TV's is to subscribe to high-definition TV (HDTV) services (which themselves can suffer if the data rates used are too low), or buy expensive "next generation" high definition DVD players and wait for the programmes to become available on those discs

To this end digital TV channels broadcasting standard definition (SD) and high definition (HD) television should be forced to adhere to minimum bitrates to ensure a high quality picture quality on all sizes of TV sold.

Current signatories

Simon Brown, the Petition Creator, joined by:

• Stuart Anderton
• Keith Doxey
• Robert Kinton
• Kris Harvey
• David Shackcloth
• Stephen Reeves
• colin cook
• Malcolm Reeves
• david stone
• David Edwards
• peter barrington
• Thomas Long
• Raymond Woods
• Ewan Fisher
• Darren Banks
• Andy Lawson
• Alan Smith
• Mark Etherington
• W Stevenson
• liam bowen
• Ian Moffatt
• John Coleman
• Nicholas Bailey
• Sandra Large
• Barry Porter
• James
• Richard Larkins
• Tim Rose
• chris carter
• Lawrence Murgatroyd
• Robert Turpie
• Maurice A. Cowan
• Paul Wright
• robert law
• Steven Dale
• Stephen Atty
• Cliff Jackson
• Kelvin Downey
• Kate Bailey
• P Caney
• S Brown
• Terry Haldenby
• Michael Roberts
• Owain Carter
• Alan Scott
• Jon Cook
• Anthony Brittain
• T Neale
• Eric Dixon
• Colin Smith
• Malcolm Woollard
• w smith
• Carl Lenton
• JAMES SENSICALL
• David A Cooper
• Mark Hepworth
• Billy Hall
• James Harris
• Stasia Botwright
• Tim Evans
• Graha Steel
• William Kemp
• David Dixon
• John McNally
• Satinder Duhra
• John Bennett
• ade ladd
• Geoffrey Bernstein
• Matthew Morley
• PETER GORENSWEIGH
• Geoffrey Clare
• Andrew R Dale
• Alexander Bushaev
• Kevin Brooke
• Miles Hill
• paul clarke
• Alan Leeke
• Frits Schnuerbel
• Thierry Demorand
• David Mackenzie
• Neville A. Daniels
• Tom Ingleby
• Russell Craig
• Clive North
• Michael Cartwright
• Campbell McCracken
• James Currie
• andrew leighton
• Darren Cotter
• Steven A Hopkins
• Steven Pressland
• robert 'technology freak' main
• Daniel Gibson
• Mark Sykes
• kenneth jordan
• Alan Howes
• Angus Gulliver
• Leo Singer
• Steven Hale
• James Williams
• Raymond Reid
• paul jones
• John Keedwell
• N Jakeman
• John Knight
• Steve Earl
• Kevin Berwick
• christopher fox
• Ian Montgomery
• Anthony G Connor