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I know the BBC regions that have received the new sets, have been automated with Overdrive - I assume they got a HD switcher (either a virtual panel or a compact one) and Xpression graphics.

Are their broadcasts actually going out in HD on FreeSat/FreeView even if say their cameras aren’t HD or is it still SD until cameras change. Or are these updates with sets complete upgrades to the system?

It’s something I’d call HD light some stations in the US would claim to be HD but they’d go 16:9 widescreen with all graphical elements are HD. Or the opposite in some cases like WCAU in Philly they got an HD set, cameras, but their graphics were SD widescreen.

From what I can gather, the regions with new sets have had new HD cameras installed, but so far, other than Southampton, all of them still have SD galleries. So what goes into the galleries, in terms of camera output, recorded packages, titles and graphics are in HD, but then downscaled to SD, before being upscaled for transmission on BBC One HD, which is now fully regionalised on all platforms.

Newcastle, Plymouth and Salford are already fully native HD, but not with the new set.