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Folks -

Having just spent some futile time on this, I thought I'd share it in case it saves anyone else from ploughing the same pointless furrow.

I noticed that I had the new HD stations on satellite, but not terrestrial. It didn't bother me over Xmas, but I thought I'd now dig into why they weren't showing up.

It seems that not all of the new BBC HD channels are available everywhere. CBBC/BBC Three are, since they ride on existing capacity - but CBeebies/BBC Four and BBC News are using new mux capacity (com7/com8) which isn't available everywhere. At launch, they're targeting 50% of the population, rising to 70% "by Wimbledon" (April/May timeframe).

ukfree.tv lists where they will land (channel/frequency) but they're not necessarily broadcasting yet, so no end of config tweaking, TSID sleuthing or Guard Interval twiddling will make them show up. Trust me on that one ... :-)