British commercial broadcaster ITV has completed the upgrade to all-HD on satellite for ITV1.
As a result, ITV will switch off SD satellite distribution from October 2024.
Households with an SD-only satellite set-top box will need to upgrade to a High Definition (HD) satellite receiver to continue to watch ITV1. ITV1 and ITV2 nationally will no longer be available in SD on satellite.
With all Sky customers being moved to HD boxes, this potentially affects a very small number of people – non-Sky customers with older SD-only set-top boxes (at most c1% of all satellite homes). ITV’s closure of SD services on satellite follows the BBC’s closure of all satellite SD services earlier this year.
There are no changes on Freeview and Virgin Media and satellite viewers with HD boxes are unaffected.
