TV in London.

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Watched a bit of the 6pm news on BBC 1. It then went to the local London news.
Thing is it said as it always does a message to the effect of ‘We can’t show local news in HD please re-tune to channel X’
Why can’t the BBC in London not show local news in HD and when will it be able to?
Thanks.
Thing is it said as it always does a message to the effect of ‘We can’t show local news in HD please re-tune to channel X’
Why can’t the BBC in London not show local news in HD and when will it be able to?
Thanks.
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The local news in HD is not just a case of flicking a switch, it requires investment in new hardware, software and uplink charges to the satellite. It will cost money the BBC doesn't have at the moment.
Depends how they were watching it.
On freeview I would expect it to work just fine as no additional spending is required. However I have nopt watched the low quality streams of freeview in yearsd (and the bbc's are probably the best on there).
Online, again I assume it would just work.
On Satellite. Then yes, they would need a channel for each area and thus need to pay a lot more. Same for cable.
That makes sense thanks.
Is there a timeline for getting local stations onto HD?
FreeView Play I believe.
Would be good regardless of SD/HD if you didn’t have to change channels.
To implement it the BBC would have to buy a lot of extra bandwidth both on Astra 28E and on the Freeview network. Can't see the point really, I don't care if my local news is SD or HD.
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As opposed to just switching channels?
Yup! It's not professional for a broadcast channel to have 15 minutes of downtime, in the middle of prime time, asking the viewer to change the channel to continue watching, just because of a technical shortcoming.
It's not a technical shortcoming, it's a money shortcoming. See post #7