[Spencer]

They seem to be setting the opt too early sometimes Is as early as 10 minutes so that portion of the HD programme becomes upscaled SD.

I think they’re just opting at the same time as they always have. It was always a few minutes beforehand when you’d see the white dots appear at the top left. Although now, yes, it’s quite annoying that means  you get several minutes of SD before each opt. But I’ll take that over having to switch between 115 and 101 to avoid the RSOD.

You’d hope that Leeds would be near the top of the list for a technical upgrade to HD, given how awful the picture looks, and how the current kit is rumoured to be on its last legs, so hopefully it might not be too long before we no longer have to put up with Vaseline-o-Vision.

Incidentally, on the subject of the white ‘confidence check’ dots. Does anyone know if any other region uses these? I’ve never seen them anywhere else. And if it’s a Leeds only thing, why do they need to put them on, but others don’t?