The French public broadcaster France Televisions is to push ahead with an expansion of high definition and digital terrestrial services following the approval of a new five-year budget. €21 million […]
HD for Dutch regional broadcaster RNN7
Dutch regional commercial broadcaster RNN7 in the city of Rotterdam plans to launch an HD version of its on May 1. An investment of €700,000 has been made to make […]
Eurosport and Panasonic to promote HD
CeBIT – HANOVER. Eurosport and Panasonic will jointly promote HD by placing large HD screens in over 1,000 retail outlets across Europe. From April Panasonic will install the full HD […]
HD first for Poland’s TVP
The Polish public broadcaster TVP has become the first station in Poland to broadcast a programme in HD over the Internet. Known as Oficerowie, it is being shown by its […]
More HD for platform n
The Polish DTH platform n is to make movies and popular local series available on a VOD basis in HD and Dolby Digital 5.1 from later this month. It will […]
UPC to offer HD before the summer
UPC Netherlands will start to offer an HD bouquet to its Dutch digital subscribers before the summer, a company spokesperson said. Last year the operator ‘soft launched’ a service just […]
Swiss to launch ‘shared’ HD channel in 2007
Swiss public broadcaster SRG SSR will launch a ‘shared’ HD channel before the end of this year to be in time for HD coverage of the Euro 2008 championship to […]
Premiere, arena both aim for football exclusivity
In separate interviews,Thursday, both Premiere CEO Georg Kofler and cable backed football channel arena’s CEO Dejan Jocic said they would try to gain exclusivity in broadcasting the German Bundesliga the […]
Clover’s Week: Piling on the pressure
Broadcasters and manufacturers are pressing the case for terrestrial HD spectrum. Julian Clover reports from the DTG Summit Almost every television set on sale in the major high street stores […]
German WDR to begin HD pilot in 2007
German regional public broadcaster WDR from Cologne plans to test HD transmissions on satellite later this year, according to Rainer Hesels, responsible for television strategy and online, in an article […]