[LargelyALurker]

Press release here, the HD rollout will be completed on all channels by the end of April.

www.bbc.co.uk 

No suggestion on here that their planning on merging their DTT SD services into one channel, though I'm not sure why they've launched an info channel on Freeview for what is a fairly minor change for DTT (from a consumer point of view) that viewers would surely work out for themselves rather than stumbling on information channel in the depths of the EPG.

I suspect the DTT info channel is so they can say ‘check 777’ in publicity and people will get an answer regardless of publicity. I imagine it’s a small minority, but some folk might not even know if they’re on satellite or Freeview so a simple consistent message makes sense. 

Obviously won’t work on Virgin (unless they can get them to add it too!) and on Freeview sets that need rescanned (probably a fair crossover with folk that don’t know if they use Freeview and who never rescan!)