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Originally Posted by cheekyangus
The arrival of BBC Alba in HD doesn't surprise me, it was the only BBC channel left to move to HD on VM outside the Audio Description channels, which are, incidentally, redundant now for all the main PSB channels as AD is available on all the main services on 101-105, 141, 161 (and in HD) with a change in menu/settings.
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It was expected, as is something else which I won't mention at the moment. Interesting that Virgin has treated the SD>HD conversion of BBC ALBA differently to that of BBC Parliament and other recent service upgrades. ALBA HD has been launched with the same EPG-ID as the SD services. BBC Parliament HD has a new EPG-ID so the old one will have to be retained as a placeholder to preserve any recordings. SI data now has dozens of these placeholders, many of them will have long retention periods as BBC / PSB placeholders.