[Brekkie]

I have a question about Freeview capacity and HD channels. Theoretically, if ITV wanted to launch ITV2 HD on Freeview, could they close 2 (or more) of their SD channels to free up the capacity? Or is it much more complicated than that?

The mux which contains (most) ITV and C4 stations would need re-encoding but in theory it could be done as the current DVB-T mux has 13 SD channels and if switched to DVB-T2 it could probably hold 6 HD and 6 SD channels.   Think it's far more complicated than just flicking a switch but it could be done if there was a will to do it - sadly that doesn't seem to be the case despite the obvious benefits.

However as the BBC seem to now be planning to scale back to one mux and ditch their SD simulcast that will hopefully have a knock on effect.