4hd and three HD not identified as HD (UK)

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hook_menu_alter
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4hd and three HD not identified as HD (UK)

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I recently bought a quatro and use it with channels DVR. Great device and software!

However, I've found that when scanning UK channels via antenna, BBC FOUR HD and BBC THREE HD are not identified as HD channels.

There are SD equivalents in the listing also, so I don't think it's the case that these are hybrid SD/HD channels, as someone on the channels forum suggested they may be.

Re-scanning does not help.

Can anyone shed some light on this?

Thanks.

jasonl
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Re: 4hd and three HD not identified as HD (UK)

Post by jasonl »

The HD flag relies on the actual resolution of the video at the time of the scan. Since BBC Three HD is timeshared with CBBC HD and BBC Four HD with CBeebies HD, video is only available during the active period, so if you scan between 19:00 and 05:30, they should show in HD (and CBBC HD and CBeebies HD won't), while if you scan from 05:30-19:00, it will be reversed. There has been a feature request for engineering to figure out some way to handle this better for a while, but other priorities always seem to end up ahead of it.

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