Saturday, 29 July, 2006
Sky HD reaches 90,000 bookings
BSkyB has taken 90,000 orders for its high definition services, it has announced.
The satellite broadcaster said that 38,000 people had HD installed by the end of June, and that it expects to have the 90,000 bookings equipped by this coming September.
Sky currently claims to have the broadest range of HD programming, including high definition versions of Sky Sports, Sky One, Sky Box Office, Sky Movies, National Geographic, Discovery and Artsworld.
Programmes have included 50 days of live cricket on Sky Sports HD and five England one-day internationals, as well as domestic matches. The company promises to screen all future Premiership, Carling Cup and UEFA Champions League games in HD.
In addition, the BBC have also been running free-to-air tests on the service, operating a single channel of high definition services.
Currently Sky’s only HD competitor is cable company ntl:Telewest, which offers high definition services through its personal video recorder platform TVDrive. Freeview will be unable to offer HD services until analogue switch-off.
Comments
| 31 July, 2006 - 12:48
Sky HD is a rip-off; £10 extra a month to revieve what in effect is less than 10 extra channels (which you would already get the same programming but in SD format) plus the cost of a new box…
Murdoch is having a laugh (so are Hannibal, Face and BA).
| 27 August, 2006 - 16:21
Sky HD is a rip off I agree!! I’ve spent £2000 on a Plasma & sound system, but won’t get sky HD due to the £10 monthly cost ontop of my normal package. There’s not many channels in HD either. I don’t mind paying one or the other, £10 per month or the £299 for the new HD box but not both. I think Sky try’s it on & wins most of the time as their the only satilite broadcaster, what ever happened to fair competion? How long are sky going to be allowed to get away with this type of pricing?