[Stooky Bill]

BBC2 NI HD will be added to EPGs on DSat on Thursday 5th January.

They certainly seem to be 'hitting the ground running' as early as possible in January with BBC Two NI.

Even if they only do one English region a week, it's still going to take until March to get through all of them. Better to do it that way, than risk it all falling over a week on Thursday because of some unforeseen bug.

I assumed that it had been available for ages, but then I only saw it on that Sky transponder when it the appearance of BBC1 South was reported here. 

The regions and other new HD services won't appear one at a time, but one transponder's worth at a time. It's a big phased reshuffle of the existing BBC transponder space