BBC News is it really HD?

Compare the image to BBC iPlayer.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/2022/regional-bbc-one-hd-roll-out

You may be in a region where not all the studio &/or TX equipment is fully-HD. Where are you, and which BBC region are you covered by?

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nicktooley wrote:

BBC News, particularly regional news can't be HD, the quality of the picture is too poor. Is it just me or are Virgin just not transmitting it in HD?

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Virgin is retransmitting what the BBC gives them. All regions are now transmitted in HD on all TV platforms, but if the source material or studio is not equipped for HD, then what you see will be upscaled SD.

Certain news clips may be from domestic video formats or mobile device cameras so may look compressed when shown. Similarly for any SD content that gets upscaled because it was not originally shot in HD.

For regional news, as others stated, the BBC has not yet completed it's upgrade of some regional studios (like BBC South East). You know if you are affected, because, for example, on end credits (near the end slate) of a programme just before the 10 o'clock news, BBC1 HD suddenly looks "mushy" or compressed on the credits and following programme adverts where local regional centre opts into network feed and reverts to SD and gets upscaled. At the end of the local opt-in when regional programme has finished, the picture returns to native HD again.

In short, Virgin Media not to blame, it's just a migration phase of the BBC's project. Most regional sites have been upgraded and those are native HD all the time on BBC1 HD for their output.

Surely the migration of BBC regional to HD was completed over a year ago?

It's as HD as it is news... In name only. 

Crikey, it's taken years to get regional news in HD.