ITV sd on the way out.

bassy

ITV is making some changes to increase their HD offering.

On 20 October, ITV HD launches in Yorkshire East, Central East, Anglia West, Meridian North and Meridian South.
Also on 20 October 2020, ITV SD closes in Border England, Anglia West, Meridian North and Yorkshire East. ITV+1 closes in Anglia, West, Tyne Tees, Westcountry, Wales and Yorkshire. These closing ITV SD and ITV+1 services will be replaced by larger regions.
But don’t worry – after the changes, you’ll still be able to record all your favourite programmes on ITV following these few simple steps.
Just go to your Sky planner from 20 October 2020, and delete any planned recordings you have set on ITV SD, ITV+1 or ITV HD.
Then, re-select what you want to record from in the TV Guide (including any series links). Programmes recorded before 20 October 2020 will not be affected and these changes will not affect ITV2, ITV3, ITV4, ITVbe or any other channel.
And remember, if you miss your favourite ITV programme you can find ITV Player in the Catch-up area on your Sky+ or Sky Q box.

As announced on Sky's website...

www.sky.com
ITV service changes 20 October 2020 | Sky Help
ITV is making some changes to their services.
www.sky.com www.sky.com

...pretty sudden announcement, but it looks like ITV are aware of HD kit penetration in Sky & Freesat homes (would be at least partially based on, but not wholly on viewing figures for their SD & HD versions of the main ITV channel) and have decided to start the ball rolling with dropping the SD/HD simulcast for most of their regions.

This obviously begs the question as to what the BBC's, and to a lesser extent Channel 4's plans regarding phasing out SD are for the medium to long term.

icdg

bassy wrote: »

ITV is making some changes to increase their HD offering.

On 20 October, ITV HD launches in Yorkshire East, Central East, Anglia West, Meridian North and Meridian South.
Also on 20 October 2020, ITV SD closes in Border England, Anglia West, Meridian North and Yorkshire East. ITV+1 closes in Anglia, West, Tyne Tees, Westcountry, Wales and Yorkshire. These closing ITV SD and ITV+1 services will be replaced by larger regions.
But don’t worry – after the changes, you’ll still be able to record all your favourite programmes on ITV following these few simple steps.
Just go to your Sky planner from 20 October 2020, and delete any planned recordings you have set on ITV SD, ITV+1 or ITV HD.
Then, re-select what you want to record from in the TV Guide (including any series links). Programmes recorded before 20 October 2020 will not be affected and these changes will not affect ITV2, ITV3, ITV4, ITVbe or any other channel.
And remember, if you miss your favourite ITV programme you can find ITV Player in the Catch-up area on your Sky+ or Sky Q box.

As announced on Sky's website...

www.sky.com
ITV service changes 20 October 2020 | Sky Help
ITV is making some changes to their services.
www.sky.com www.sky.com

...pretty sudden announcement, but it looks like ITV are aware of HD kit penetration in Sky & Freesat homes (would be at least partially based on, but not wholly on viewing figures for their SD & HD versions of the main ITV channel) and have decided to start the ball rolling with dropping the SD/HD simulcast for most of their regions.

This obviously begs the question as to what the BBC's, and to a lesser extent Channel 4's plans regarding phasing out SD are for the medium to long term.

I understand UTV+1 also closes on satellite and will be replaced on the NI EPG by Granada+1

Less about “phasing out SD” per se, more about saving money on transponder capacity on satellite, +1’s becoming less relevant now with catch up services (although flickers still love them).

Remember, on Sky, SD-only boxes (possibly still some out there) can’t receive HD channels at all.

dulpit

icdg wrote: »

Remember, on Sky, SD-only boxes (possibly still some out there) can’t receive HD channels at all.

Is this the only reason FTA channels keep SD going? I can understand the Sky channels, because it's an additional revenue stream for sky to charge for HD, but I did wonder about the free ones...

GerardKeating

bassy wrote: »

On 20 October, ITV HD launches in Yorkshire East, Central East, Anglia West, Meridian North and Meridian South.
Also on 20 October 2020, ITV SD closes in Border England,

But it already 2021 ???

icdg

GerardKeating wrote: »

But it already 2021 ???

It is. The announcement Bassy posted is old, this is the current one (may need to change flag to U.K. to view)

https://www.sky.com/help/articles/itv-service-changes

Basically the SD versions of Anglia East, Meridian South, Yorkshire West, Westcountry, Tyne Tees, Central East, and HTV West along with UTV+1 and ITVBe+1 closed yesterday.

fryup

so does this mean ITV 2,3,4 hd for Paddy?