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Originally Posted by tizmeinnit
HD childrens channels what a waste of bandwidth
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Yeah, totally. Bring back 405 line VHF, life was so much simpler.
The UK has settled on a broadcast standard of 1080 high definition. It will be simpler and therefore cheaper for broadcasters to originate and broadcast all their content this way without having to worry about final output definition. Almost everything the BBC makes is shot in HD now anyway. Some of the kids stuff was on the BBC-HD showreel because it, too, had been made in HD.
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Originally Posted by the_pidgeon
Sort out the problems with regional programming, so we dont have to change to SD channel first.
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There are no problems - regionalisation of HD was always going to be phased in. They did the Nations a little while ago, the English Regions will follow shortly.
Today's announcement is a victory for those who have lobbied hard for Ofcom to reserve some of the UHF spectrum reclaimed from analogue TV so it could continue to be used for digital TV. Ofcom's position for many years has been that its remit was to monetize the spectrum by flogging it all off and if broadcasters wanted it, they would have to bid for it on the open market against the telecoms firms that want it for 4g and other uses. This position was patently absurd - our broadcast industry has developed a business model over many decades which was based on the assumption that the broadcast spectrum would simply be available; they were never going to be able to bid for and win it on the open market.
Ofcom has announced that it is reserving enough UHF spectrum for 10 HD channels. The BBC is now able to announce the launch of HD versions of almost all its output because its platform-neutral policy had prevented it from doing so previously. It could have launched all these HD channels on cable and satellite some time ago but it was lack of room on Freeview that held them back.