BBC One to equip Wales and NI newsrooms for HD
 

Despite being touted as an HD channel, I was surprised to learn that viewers in Wales still have to get their local news in SD!

Been told by someone working in the industry that this should be resolved in the first quarter of 2019.

Do Welsh viewers currently have to switch over to the SD channel to get their local news like English viewers do?

BBC NI to imminently go fully HD.
 

Someone working in the industry has been told that the work to upgrade the Northern Irish newsroom to HD is now complete (playout has been HD for some time now).

Looks like BBC1 NI will be imminently going full HD :)

Re: One or two new channels coming to Freesat.
 

An industry insider has said that BBC Wales is to have their local news provided in HD from the first quarter of 2019.

Work to make the BBC1 NI newsroom HD is now complete, so that should be going live shortly.

These additions will mean that Welsh and NI viewers on Freesat will get a truly full HD channel for their BBC1 service.

Re: New channels planned for Freeview.
 

An industry insider has said that BBC Wales is to have their local news provided in HD from the first quarter of 2019.

Work to make the BBC1 NI newsroom HD is now complete, so that should be going live shortly.

These additions will mean that Welsh and NI viewers on Freeview will get a truly full HD channel for their BBC1 service.

Re: BBC Wales to go fully HD.
 

BBC One began simulcasting the national variants of BBC One in HD in 2012-13. On Freesat at least, BBC One Scotland HD has been assigned to channel 101 since launch. I understand they are doing a phased roll-out of English regional variants this year and next.

So BBC One Wales HD does exist and can be viewed without changing channel. However I don't know how VM have implemented this. What your friend is saying doesn't seem to make sense though. I can't see why VM wouldn't have put BBC One Wales HD in EPG slot 101 years ago.

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Reading your items about NI and Wales together, I wonder whether the issue is that the local newsrooms haven't been equipped with HD cameras, and so are issuing bulletins in SD even though they're putting them onto an HD channel? That isn't the case in Scotland, but then BBC Scotland moved to new premises in 2007 so they may have equipped it for HD from the outset.

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... and you've said as much in the Freesat and Freeview threads. This clearly in neither a VM, nor Freesat, nor a Freeview issue, but a matter of BBC resourcing its regional operations (or not resourcing them, as the case may be) I'd be grateful if you could stop prompting what is essentially the same conversation in multiple locations.

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Lots of posts merged, thread reopened. Please behave, there was no need for this and I've got other things to do this afternoon.

Re: BBC One to equip Wales and NI newsrooms for HD
 

That is one thing which has always flipping bugged me. BBC 2 is BBC2 HD by default on Sky on channel 102. Why is channel 101 BBC1 SD and BBC1 HD on something like channel 140. It does my head in when I watch Wimbledon every year and want to flip between the channels.