Telenor Satellite Broadcasting (TSB) is currently undertaking the first-ever live HD broadcast in Bulgaria. It is being demonstrated at the Mediamixx show in Albena on the Black Sea coast, offering attendees the chance to view Discovery HD on a Samsung full HD 48-inch screen. The signal is encoded in MPEG-4 and transferred to Sofia from [...]
Sky adds new HD sports
June 5, 2007 15.05 Europe/London By
Sky Sports has confirmed plans to cover additional events in the HD format during 2007. Included are coverage of the US Open and USPGA Championship, as the broadcaster attempts to bolster its golf coverage following the loss of some PGA events to rival Setanta. The US Open from Oakmont (June 14 – 17) and USPGA [...]
Estonia to trial HD over DTT
June 5, 2007 11.03 Europe/London By
The Estonian public broadcaster ETV and the country’s national transmission company Levira have signed a MoU to start a pilot HD transmission of ETV’s first channel over Levira’s DTT network. It will begin next month in Tallinn and Valgjärve in the south of Estonia, with subscribers, most of who already own HD-enabled set-top boxes, also [...]
NatGeo HD on Freebox
June 4, 2007 07.18 Europe/London By
In France National Geographic Channel HD is now available on the IPTV service from Free. The channel transmits in HD 16:9 with Dolby Digital 5.1 sound for 18 hours a day. During the month of June the channel is free of charge to all Freebox owners, from July 1st a monthly subscription fee of €3.99 [...]
Full-time HD on Swedish DTT
May 30, 2007 08.35 Europe/London By
Regular high definition transmissions have begun on the Swedish digital terrestrial television network. Transmission company Teracom began broadcasts in the Mälaren Valley on Saturday and will eventually extend to over one million households in Stockholm, Västerås, Uppsala and Södertälje. This represents about 27% of households, and although Teracom would like to extend this further, any [...]
Digital+ to launch HD DVR
May 29, 2007 18.01 Europe/London By
UPDATE 10.41am Sogecable’s Spanish DTH platform Digital+ is to launch a digital video recorder. Known as iPlus, the quad-tuner set-top box features twin satellite and DTT tuners and a 160GB hard drive that equates to around 80 hours of stored programming. iPlus will use the NDS MediaHighway middleware and will be integrated with the existing [...]
Voom HD appoints David Alworth
May 29, 2007 07.27 Europe/London By
Voom HD Networks today announced the appointment of David Alworth to vice president of operations and program administration. Alworth was most recently vice president of operations for Rainbow Sports Networks. In his new role, Alworth will be responsible for operational and business affairs related activities for Voom HD Networks’ 15 HD channels, Voom’s global channel, [...]
Casema selects S-A HD set-tops
May 22, 2007 11.05 Europe/London By
ANGA CABLE – Cologne. Dutch cablenet Casema is to introduce an HD compatible digital video recorder from Scientific-Atlanta. Casema has chosen the Explorer 8455 DVB unit, as part of the latest phase in a project between the two companies, which also includes the use of S-A digital headends and associated control systems and Cisco 7600 [...]
BBC Trust launches HD Public Value Test
May 22, 2007 10.42 Europe/London By
UPDATE. The BBC Trust has formally launched the Public Value Test on the BBC’s proposal for a high definition television channel. A four-week consultation period has now begun as part of a timetable that has been set out for the next six months. The BBC’s proposal is for a high definition channel that would be [...]
Twin carriage for TV4 HD
May 22, 2007 08.29 Europe/London By
TV4 Sweden will launch its new high definition channel next Monday (May 28) with distribution on the Canal Digital DTH platform and Com Hem on cable. The channel will commence broadcasting at 21.00 with the series premier of the new series of the Kiefer Sutherland’s spy hokum 24. The broadcaster will also be showing series [...]
