A few similar posts cropping up, so I've merged them together.
ITV-HD is fine for me, so it doesn't look like a national fault. What parts of the country are people in - perhaps this is a regional issue?
You should be able to disable AD by pressing "info", scrolling down to the audio tab and pressing "OK" to toggle it off perhaps twice for good measure.
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