BBC and the point one

Acred posted:

The BBC did it last year. My sub-offer has a small blue light which comes on when it's activated by a LFE signal. Remained off whenever I watched a bit of Glastonbury on BBC One HD. Now watching Wimbledon on BBC One HD and the blue lights on. So why do they do this? Rock music deserves 2.1, tennis doesn't really matter. 

Well the grunts of tennis players do need the best possible fidelity...

I wonder whether this is the BBC trying to maximise the feeling of actually being there in the court, through the lower phase distortion which comes with an extended base response. There was an article about that in HiFi News recently.

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David