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Originally Posted by cheekyangus
The Nations have it (and have done for ages), just not the English Regions.
The BBC said earlier this year the BBC1 English Regions will be HD by the end of 2022.
The potentially better news is that just the other day the BBC's own TV schedule page suggested the English HD Regions will start on 21st October THIS year.
The chances are that the rough later time period in 2022 is for Freeview, where it's more complicated to implement, the imminent October date is plausible for other platforms.
When ITV made most of its regions HD recently on Satellite/Cable it came about rather quickly once they got going, so it's entirely possible the new BBC-Sky deal announced yesterday (or was it the day before? I forget) included satellite carriage on Sky's transponders to necessitate launching the English HD regions. This is likely what ITV did in their recent Sky deal to manage it.
It feels like aeons for the Scottish version.
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As you says RXTV says BBC One English HD regions HD may launch as early as October 21th.
https://rxtvinfo.com/2021/bbc-one-hd...art-imminently
Rumours says that BBC ALBA HD and BBC Parliament HD may launch on BBC iPlayer (and due to BBC new Sky deal they may launch on Virgin Media and Sky).