Dutch commercial broadcaster RTL Nederland and Chellomedia’s Sport1 have signed a sublicensing agreement to bring matches from the Wimbledon tennis championships live in HD on Dutch cable. RTL owns the live rights to Wimbledon and will air a selection of the matches on RTL7. Sport 1 will show selected games in HD quality to subscribers [...]

According to local reports, Peter Dvorak, the general director of TV Nova, has said that the Czech national commercial station could eventually launch up to five HDTV channels. Although there is still no end in sight to the dispute about digital TV licences awarded to six lesser-known companies last year and their subsequent withdrawal following [...]

The Belgian digital In-Di service will launch its HD-PVR in May, the company said. The new HD service launched just a few weeks ago and already attracted over 1,000 customers (see earlier story) Customers can now register their orders with the operator’s retail partners and delivery will take place sometime in May. The cabler has [...]

Belgian cable operator Interkabel said it now has over 1,000 HD subscribers to the service it launched just a week ago. The group is the first to offer HD channels to the 777,000 homes it serves in Flanders. The current offer consists of VTM HD, HD1, Exqui HD and National Geographic HD and two Kinepolis [...]

European sales of high definition television displays and video devices are expected to climb this year by a massive 158%, according to new research from Strategy Analytics. By the end of 2007 there are expected to be 28.1 million installed units, and by 2012 some 70% of European homes are expected to own at least [...]

NonStop Television is to launch its film channel Silver on the Canal Digital platform in Scandinavia. A standard definition version will launch on May 1 to be followed by an high definition version on September 1, 2007. Silver has established itself as a showcase for independent cinema from the United States, Asia, Europe and Scandinavia. [...]

Canal Digital is extending its high definition TV service to Denmark. The cable, satellite and IPTV operator is launching a nationwide campaign on April 16. Danish viewers will initially have a five channel service available, comprising the premium channels Canal+ Film HD and Canal+ Sport HD; and basic channels Discovery, National Geographic and Voom. It [...]

The Polish DTH platform n is to transmit its first-ever local football match in HD this Tuesday (April 3). A Polish cup tie between Lech Poznan and Korona Kielce, it will appear on the proprietary channel Nsport and will be followed by a further transmission a week later. N, which is owned by ITI Group, [...]