[interestednovice]

I see, that explains the confusion!

I knew the regions weren’t in HD last week, because if I selected any channel other than BBC One, it was a 720p stream on my laptop (proving that my internet connection is easily good enough) but BBC One was still SD maximum - a function of the regional arrangements, of course.

I was slightly irritated that the BBC removed the “England” option in the regions drop-down well before launching the HD regions on iPlayer. I’d previously used that to stream BBC One HD (red screen version, of course) but lost the chance to do that around Christmas.