There's no appetite to push Freeview to a fully DVB-T2/MPEG4 system.
The average bitrates in MPEG2 are so low anyway the gains will be marginal. Millions of STBs and secondary sets up and down the country made redundant for no real benefit to anyone. It'd take years to transition and ultimately is there anyone clamouring to use what little space will be vacated?
In 2014 it probably was a good idea. In 2019 it is an idea that came too late. Announced tomorrow it'd have an ambitious target at 2022, realistic at 2025. By then? We will all be streaming, of course.
