November 8th, 2005
BBC to Offer HD soon?
HDTV UK Blog says that the Beeb are going to start offering HD channels (over sat/cable to start.)
No link to any hard source – but hopefully Auntie Beeb will put out official detail later today… (edit: and here it is)
The most interesting part is the idea that they might start to transmit HD over DVB-T (Freeview).
Currently there’s not enough bandwidth in the UK for this – we (the UK) decided to allocate the bandwidth so that we got many channels, rather than a fewer higher-def channels (We’ve got about 30 standard def. channels and some audio-only channels too.) However, after digital switchover, there could be extra space for some HD channels (which take up relatively huge chunks of the available bandwidth.)
