Flemish cable operator Interkabel announced it will introduce its first HD bouquet on the iN-Di digital service including an HD version of commercial broadcaster VTM. In Germany, Unity Media has announced it will launch the Premiere HD channels before the summer. The introduction of HD on the Interkabel networks is a first for Belgium. The […]
More VOD and HD for Poland
The Polish cable operator Multimedia Polska has announced that it will launch VOD and HDTV services in the first half of this year. It will then go on to also offer telecom services, employing the incumbent TPSA’s infrastructure, in the second half of 2007. Multimedia Polska is the country’s third largest MSO after UPC and […]
French lead Euro HD
France has pulled ahead of other European countries by setting aside terrestrial capacity for high definition television. Strategy Analytics new research piece “Digital TV Transition: Europe Watches France’s Mandates As Terrestrial HDTV Arrives” says the country has taken an important step towards HDTV on the ‘TNT’ platform by allocating capacity for HD channels and mandating […]
Dutch public broadcaster prepares for HD
Dutch public broadcaster NOS is to transmit the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games in HD. Coverage of the Euro 2008 football championship taking place in Austria and Switzerland will also be televised in high def, said NOS director Gerard Dielissen. Last year the broadcaster decided to transmit the 2006 World Cup games only in SD, eschewing […]
SES Astra passes 2,000 channels
More than 2,000 channels can now be received from SES satellite positions over Europe. In the last year the number of broadcast channels broadcast from the 19.2 degrees East, 28.2 degrees East and 23.5 degrees East orbital slots increased from 1,648 to 1,864. The figure includes video, audio and interactive channels. When combined with the […]