[Neil Jones]

SD is probably not the thing we have to ditch immediately, in my opinion, MPEG-2 needs to be ditched ASAP, especially for a platform that's more about quanity over quality.

Question: Would the existing Freeview hardware (boxes, TVs, etc) be able to cope with whatever the next option after MPEG2 (MPEG4?) is without a need to replace the whole lot?

We saw with the ITV Digital boxes for example that while they continued to work after ITV DIgital collapsed, at some point down the line the technology changed and those boxes are good now only for door stops.