You couldn't even shut your eyes and listen to the music - there were thirty one interruptions to the sound during the overture alone. (Yes, I was counting. It was the only thing you could do.) And it stayed like that into the start of the action, which was the point at which the audience gave up, en masse.
The worst bit was the short sections of ten seconds or so when everything was ok before the hope - oooh, is it going to be all right?!? - was dashed by yet another break up / freeze / disappearance / out of sync issue.
Argh. Let's see what they do about it.
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Why, given the forecast, there wasn't an internet stream set up, I don't know. It would certainly be fast enough here and anywhere else with a fibre connection.
Somewhere in the Netherlands is being smug about it being ok for them, so it's probably at (numerous) UK locations - this makes sense as presumably the uplink is one biiig stable dish.
What a pain for you, though!
Interestingly, although they've approved other people's posts about how awful it was last night, and some other comments of mine, they've not approved my comment about how awful it was and asking why; how can I be sure that it won't be the same on Sunday (one of a very small number of encore showings is nearby); and why there isn't going to be a more general reshowing. Anyone north of Leeds has just two choices: Teeside or Paisley!
I do know it's going to be on BBC4 in April, but even with the recent introduction of BBC4 HD solving most of the 'over compressed video' problems, the sound quality is never up to much.