[Mike]

I watched Midlands Today for the first time in a little while today, albeit on the iPlayer - something is slightly different about the picture quality in the studio compared to last time I watched (much less blurry) - is this new cameras being installed to finally replace the aged Thomson vaseline-o-vision ones?

Quoting myself; just to check I wasn't imagining the improvement I compared last week's with this week's Politics Midlands. Both of these are shown at the same resolution on the iPlayer according to the stats.

The top row is last weekend's PM, complete with grainy and slightly blurry camera shots, the bottom row are this week's equivilant shots. If this is the start of the HD transformation that's a good sign as I expected we'd have to wait until 2026-28 to see the Midlands' output in HD. One thing I would say is it appears the racking/saturation isn't quite right on the newer kit. The Caspar astons also look sharper - I don't think they are from the new Xpression kit that's being rolled out.