Why doesn’t virgin tivo broadcast HD as standard?

[Killy88]

Posting on behalf of my grandma, her virgin media tv broadcast is SD as standard, you have to press the blue button to get a HD feed. Is this normal or is there a way to get the HD broadcast as standard? I am a sky Q subscriber and all our channels bar BBC1 the HD is the standard broadcast. Can I change the virgin box?

[japitts]

It depends what you mean by having HD "as standard". In many cases, the HD variant of channels now occupies the EPG position previously occupied by SD.

ITV-HD is on 103, whereas ITV-SD is 113. 105 is C5-HD, and in London 104 is C4-HD.

BBC1-HD is on 108, largely because the BBC1 regions don't have HD yet.

Pressing blue works on most SD channels where there's an HD equivalent.

[LittleMick73]

Hi an alternative is to setup a favourites list whereby you can set all the HD channels you want. Regards Micky