Starting 12 Dec 2019:

Channel name	HD	SD
Phoenix Chinese Channel	318	312
Star Chinese Channel	315*	X
TVB Xing He	319	314
CNBC Asia	538	518

All channels are in HD simulcast, except Star Chinese Channel, which will upgrade to a HD only channel, and SD version will cease.

Of course, these info are not from those vandalised Wikipedia pages.
PLEASE, don't go and ask Astro customer service on questions like:

"Is it true that Animal Planet, BBC World News, Discovery Channel...... will be available in HD starting next week?"
"Someone from Lowyat forum say <this channel> <that channel> will have HD on <this date>, is that true?"
"My friend told me that <this channel> <that channel> will have HD. If it's true, when ah?"

They will tell you no shit cuz they know nothing about it
and very likely they're not being informed on such matters by relevant department,
and they'll give you the reply of "We will announce any upcoming channels on our social media platforms...." and all those copy paste answers.


You can see that even Astro has started to inform their advertisers already, unless they want to lie to their advertisers la, which is so unlikely.
From what I see, they rather lie to customers also don't want to lie to current and existing advertisers.

Also, there's no mention on when CCM channel will be available in HD and which channel number will it be. It might be similar like Star Chinese Channel, which might be upgraded to a HD only channel, and SD version may cease. My best guess for this CCM is, the HD simulcast are likely to happen on the same date as other new HD simulcast Mandarin channels, which is 12 Dec 2019.

Tip: As you can see on the photo attached above, Discovery Asia (ch571) channel will be the "NEW ADDITION to advertising", meaning it will start to air some product placement commercials soon.
So you can get prepared to see those annoying and repetitive ads like those Colgate, Ajax Fabuloso, Ambi Pur on Discovery Asia channel starting 15 Oct 2019 where its newly revised advertising rate card goes into effect.
*Disclaimer: I am not opposing nor affiliated to those brands mentioned.

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