Sci Fi HD is the first channel of science fiction of the 31 that it offers in high definition Sky Digital
HD.
Sci Fi HD turns into the first one of Global Universal
NBC Networks in the United Kingdom that offers itself under this format of high definition along with the already existing ones of
Hallmark, Prima donna TV and Movies24.
The chain occupies the internal dial number 214 of Sky Digital and lands in France after having already done it in other European countries as for example in France, where it is distributed across
CanalSat.
The British satellite platform was, in fact, the pioneer in Europe on having thrown in May, 2006 his first nine chains in
HD. A number, which little by little it has been increasing before the enormous acceptance of his subscribers up to reaching the current quantity of 31.
The last channels in
HD that have incorporated sound The Biography
Channel and
Crime and
Investigation, both of the
grupoo A&E Television
Network, the same one that there produces The History
Channel HD in the same platform of Sky Digital
UK and Ireland.
According to semiofficial information of Sky Digital, 434.000 hearths subscribed to the platform there are signed to
Sky +
HD, the recipient that allows to receive the emission in Alta Definición of the television of payment property of News Corp.
Digital
Sky offers his wide offer of channels of television codified with the conditional access
Videoguard across the orbital position of 28,2nd East of the satellites of
SES Astra.

Sci Fi
(SatCesc, 28/01/09)