Last year I made fun of the SCMP for somehow implying that an HD TV set would enable viewers to watch the BBC series Planet Earth in HD even though (1) digital TV had not been launched at the time, and (2) it was on TVB Pearl, which was not planned to be (and is not now) available in HD.
However, it seemed inevitable that TVB would eventually get around to broadcasting it on their HD service, and that is what they are currently doing on Sunday mornings.
Not that readers of the SCMP will know about this, since there are no listings for any of the digital-only channels in that fine newspaper. Going to the TVB website isn’t much help either, because it’s all in Chinese (apart from TVB Pearl). You could visit http://schedule.tvb.com/hdjade but there’s no English listings even for the English language programmes!
Thankfully, the electronic programme guide (EPG) is available in English.
Ordinary Gweilo 
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