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<blockquote data-quote="Fisty McB" data-source="post: 1099166" data-attributes="member: 389824">On a technical basis, the five regions mentioned for a HD launch on the Sky EPG are all on the one transponder (11097 V) with three of the regions essentially being &quot;flash cut&quot; i.e. SD discontinued for a new HD feed (Yorkshire East, Anglia West &amp; Meridian North/Thames Valley), with Border England becoming HD only leaving four &quot;HD only&quot; regions, and Central East &amp; Meridian South remaining dual illuminated for the time being.Looking at the services being discontinued, the majority of them are on 10994 H. Regions on that transponder whose SD transmissions are **not** listed for closing include Border Scotland, Central East, Wales and Westcountry West. I suspect 10994 H will go dark, with those remaining services being shifted to other active transponders, so expect some service shifting in the early hours of Tuesday morning probably to 10758 V (where Anglia East +1 is closing) and 10891 H (Where Border England &amp; Westcounty SW +1 are closing).I wonder just how many are still in active service. While I'm sure there are piles of them lying around in storage, how many of them are actively being used now? The original Sky and Sky+ receivers were already starting to become old hat at the start of the last decade and I'm pretty sure Sky had stopped offering non-HD Sky boxes by around 2012? Freesat only had a short window at the beginning where they sold SD only receivers so the vast majority of their base are already HD viewing compliant. Sky, I'm sure via their subscriber data, will know how many subscribers they have that are still relying on SD only receivers and might have shared some of this data with ITV in order for them to make decisions on capacity and shifting towards HD.What is interesting to view however is that ITV have been quite willing to take a knife to +1 transmissions in a number of notable regions - perhaps ratings data is showing a declining audience for the timeshift channel in favour of on-demand programming via ITV Hub and are cutting their cloth accordingly by allowing the +1 &quot;strand&quot; to develop into super-regions in the meantime.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Fisty McB, post: 1099166, member: 389824"] On a technical basis, the five regions mentioned for a HD launch on the Sky EPG are all on the one transponder (11097 V) with three of the regions essentially being "flash cut" i.e. SD discontinued for a new HD feed (Yorkshire East, Anglia West & Meridian North/Thames Valley), with Border England becoming HD only leaving four "HD only" regions, and Central East & Meridian South remaining dual illuminated for the time being. Looking at the services being discontinued, the majority of them are on 10994 H. Regions on that transponder whose SD transmissions are **not** listed for closing include Border Scotland, Central East, Wales and Westcountry West. I suspect 10994 H will go dark, with those remaining services being shifted to other active transponders, so expect some service shifting in the early hours of Tuesday morning probably to 10758 V (where Anglia East +1 is closing) and 10891 H (Where Border England & Westcounty SW +1 are closing). I wonder just how many are still in active service. While I'm sure there are piles of them lying around in storage, how many of them are actively being used now? The original Sky and Sky+ receivers were already starting to become old hat at the start of the last decade and I'm pretty sure Sky had stopped offering non-HD Sky boxes by around 2012? Freesat only had a short window at the beginning where they sold SD only receivers so the vast majority of their base are already HD viewing compliant. Sky, I'm sure via their subscriber data, will know how many subscribers they have that are still relying on SD only receivers and might have shared some of this data with ITV in order for them to make decisions on capacity and shifting towards HD. What is interesting to view however is that ITV have been quite willing to take a knife to +1 transmissions in a number of notable regions - perhaps ratings data is showing a declining audience for the timeshift channel in favour of on-demand programming via ITV Hub and are cutting their cloth accordingly by allowing the +1 "strand" to develop into super-regions in the meantime. [/QUOTE]

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