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  • BBC One regions + more all in HD now

    From Ar@Ar@127.0.0.1 to uk.media.tv.misc on Wed Feb 22 17:25:22 2023
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    If you have FTA satellite / Freesat / Sky (NOT Freeview) - as of today (Wednesday 22nd), the BBC seem to have completed their moving channels
    around, so you can watch all the UK's BBC One regions in HD. The BBC
    have axed all the SD versions to replace them with HD. However, based on
    my quick observations, the following regions DO NOT have HD for their
    regional news. Come on BBC, HD has been around for a long time now.

    East
    East Mids
    North East?
    South East
    West Mids
    Yorks
    Yorks & Lincs

    The rest of those regions output is of course in HD, just not the
    regional news. Channels like BBC South HD and BBC London HD are in full
    HD for regional news, although they do seem to mix with SD shot footage
    still.

    Also, BBC Parliament on satellite has become HD as well, the SD channel getting the chop. And BBC Four HD got moved to a different transponder
    without the BBC telling anyone.

    There's an BBC Alba HD, BBC Scotland HD, and BBC Wales HD - but I don't
    care about those.
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  • From NY@me@privacy.invalid to uk.media.tv.misc on Thu Feb 23 09:47:50 2023
    From Newsgroup: uk.media.tv.misc

    "Ar" <Ar@127.0.0.1> wrote in message news:tt5j62$1ikdo$1@dont-email.me...
    Also, BBC Parliament on satellite has become HD as well, the SD channel getting the chop.

    All the SD versions of the BBC channels (in non-regionalised, red-slate
    form) have been moved to 12422H https://www.lyngsat.com/muxes/Astra-2F_UK_12422-H.html as a short-term measure. I'm not sure how long they will remain there. However I've heard reports that they may not appear in the Freesat EPG and list of channels,
    and that you may need to access them in nono-Freesat mode. I use TVHeadend
    on a Raspberry Pi, which only operates in non-Freesat mode, so I can see
    them just the same as any other channels.

    After BBC Parliament first became available on 10733 H in HD, a few days
    ago, it looked as if they were still getting the sub-SD 544x576 feed and upscaling it. I was about to make a facetious comment about turd-polishing, but it looks as if the pictures are now 1920x1080. So our MPs are now
    sharper - in appearance if not brains ;-)

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