[Stuart]

Episode 242 isn't there on the ways I'm accessing the STV player (Virgin, Roku and web). There's still ads during the episodes on all of those platforms as well.

I wish I had access to Sky as it seems to have some advantages over the STV Player apps elsewhere to watch Brookside, no adverts and I think it's 50i as well, but nobody I know even has Sky any more (the ones who did have all moved to Virgin!).

I've just watched Ep242, and they have definitely skipped 9 months. It's obvious because someone has already had a previously unmentioned baby and there are new characters. It's also copyrighted as 1985.

How strange. It seems odd, so perhaps it's just an uploading error by STV Player to Sky rather than a gap in their online rights.

The PQ is certainly 50i on Sky as it's downloaded rather than streamed. I think my 4K TV also tries to upscale things when it can.