Thread: General EPG shakeup
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Old 29-05-2014, 00:33   #12
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Re: EPG shakeup

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Originally Posted by OLD BOY View Post
Are you sure about that? I have a recording every night for the 10 o'clock News on BBC 1.

If the channel swap system changed the recording to BBC 1 HD, I would not be able to watch my regional news, as the HD variant just has a slate up telling me that this programming is not available in HD. For this reason, I don't want the channel swap until the BBC have sorted this out.
Well even on Sky they haven't swapped the first 5 channels to HD because exactly that - the HD channels are one single channel for the whole of the country whereas the SD are regionalised. This also affects Channel 4 and possibly Channel 5 since believe it or not they also have regional variations, but only for advertising.

I read that the BBC Trust were supposed to be presented with plans of making the HD channel fully regional but haven't heard any news since.

But even if there was a forced swap, the SD channel would still be there but just on a different channel number so your series link would be unaffected as with all channel moves.
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