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**Chris** · 28-03-2013, 18:23

That would be the BBC's "platform neutral" policy, I imagine. Although, that's a convenient excuse because the BBC is skint.

Even if they had the money for the bandwidth, Freeview doesn't have the bandwidth for the channels. Welcome to the wonderfully short-sighted world of British TV broadcasting. We should have been making plans to standardise on satellite delivery of our FTA TV a decade ago. No mucking about with phased analogue switch-off, no arguing over how many UHF channels can be hawked off to mobile phone companies and, best of all, no compromise on the number of TV channels our public service broadcasters can make available in HD.

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Chris Trollsplatter Cable Forum Team Join Date: Jun 2003 Location: North of Watford Services: Humane elimination of all common Internet pests Posts: 38,308	Re: BBC news now in HD That would be the BBC's "platform neutral" policy, I imagine. Although, that's a convenient excuse because the BBC is skint. Even if they had the money for the bandwidth, Freeview doesn't have the bandwidth for the channels. Welcome to the wonderfully short-sighted world of British TV broadcasting. We should have been making plans to standardise on satellite delivery of our FTA TV a decade ago. No mucking about with phased analogue switch-off, no arguing over how many UHF channels can be hawked off to mobile phone companies and, best of all, no compromise on the number of TV channels our public service broadcasters can make available in HD.