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Artsworld is to offered in HDTV to the UK in the Autumn - no mention of price yet mind you...
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Discovery HD Theatre
http://www.ofcom.org.uk/static/tvlicensing/cs/1094.htm
Sky Sports HD
http://www.ofcom.org.uk/static/tvlicensing/cs/1114.htm
And getting a licence in itself isn't news, even if it has just happened - Ofcom are hardly going to say no.
Paddy
Paddy
Nah, Sky's HD service won't launch in 2006 - I'm pretty sure it'll launch by the end of this year (2005).
Various reasons for and against that idea, but I think it'll happen.
Soft launch in some cases , a major retailer (currys) took out large adverts in todays major nationals promoting HD ready (the official HD ready sticker) TV's gearing up for Skys launch giving Sky a good promotion , surprised they didn't include the fact X-Box 360 takes advantage of the technolgoy as will the PS3 with HD games and blu-ray discs.
I don't think enough people know what Blu-ray is for them to put it in the ad. Those who do don't need to be reminded. The others might be a good idea.
Anyway, this is great news. Yet more evidence for a september launch
Just hope it's part of a bundled package, could be pricey if it's only standalone.
Check it out for yourself.
http://www.discovery.com
Expect the PR build up to begin at the end of August.
The BBC are also planning a launch and I would be very surprised if that didn't come before Christmas too to allow Sky users to access it- after all, they have the back catalogue sitting ready right now.
The only thing which could mess it all up is a shortage of boxes...
Comet (here in Edinburgh) have a plethora of HiDef and HiDef ready sets in stock, on the shelves.
Sagem, Hitachi and Pioneer. I was in there yesterday and boy did I get the hard sell.
Very nice they are too and in some cases Cheaper than plasma panel sets.
If you are thinking of buying one, go for the LCD set, they last longer and are more reliable.:)
BBC ? How do you know this ?
the picture is amazing
No , wait for the new Sky+HD box , it's HD will be big enough to store a good amount of HD and SD content.
Andy, How big a HDisk do you think will be needed? It is relatively easy to fit a 250Gb disk into existing boxes but will that be enough? and will existing boxes allow recording of HD? (data rate must be higher!)
The 160 included USB connections - could this be to allow extra HDisk modules?
Bill
All the channels so far will be broadcasting in MPEG-4. Current Sky+ boxes do not support this decoding format.
Number of GB for such a Sky+HD box have been around the 200GB-500GB region , but still that's a large difference in order to try and work out what the final capacity might be.
As for exsisting boxes the problem is they don't support MPEG-4, the signal is recieved and decoded with the MPEG2 chipset , I've never heard of a work around using a USB port or similar add on to re-route the signal. You would need to look at the finer points of the Sky160 box to see if any feasible work around is provided.
Thanks Andy!
That seems to be the killer for current Sky+ box sales.
As soon as that is realised by the general public (or publicised by the press) that will almost certainly reduce current sales to such a level that Sky will be forced to bring out the new box very quickly.
Bill
I don't need to check it out. What I'm saying is my perception of what Discovery US show is a lot higher than my perception of what Discovery UK show. Going to the US site is only going to tell me what I already know.
Sky will only bring out the new boxes when HD is launched. I guess that they could bring them out early. I wonder if Sky will broadcast SD channels in H.264? That'll save them some bandwidth if they make channels HD owners only, it'll also drive more people over to HD