[Brekkie]

An absolute joke we weren't in this position over a decade ago. France TV is now looking at launching UHD channels this year whilst Freeview still has no reasonable plan to even have HD as the norm.

There is no reason now really why for the PSB muxes at least a conversion to HD can't be done to deliver the main ITV/C4 digital channels in HD as standard as well - you could convert D3&4 to T2 and have ITV2/3/4 and E4/More4/Film4 in HD with the rest on the mux in SD, and if the BBC mux is converted too (rather than used as a legacy SD mux) the BBC, ITV and C4 could effectively have one HD mux each, with C5 (main channel at least) and S4C accomodated.

Ideally the COM muxes would then follow suit but not crucial, but if they switched each mux to T2 they could keep the same number of channels but upgrade 4 of them to HD, which would be sufficient to cover the most watched channels in the country and collectively with the PSB muxes offer around 30 channels in HD.