BBC HD had dijado like term to be expressing in tests until the next June, but the hearing and the interest that has reached between the viewers has provoked that his persons in charge have decided to advance the official date of commencement of the emission.

Nevertheless, the BBC needs the authorization of the authority of the sector of telecommunications of the United Kingdom, the Ofcom, to start the commercialization of the new chain in high definition.

The person in charge of the BBC, Seetha Kumar, confirmed in his moment that BBC HD will have in his beginnings necessary a programming and a few limited contents, given that it is a question of an experimental chain that applies a new technology therefore the production in HDTV is still scarce.

BBC HD

BBC HD expresses openly across the satellite Astra 2D (28,2nd East) in the frequency 10.847-V MHz (MR. 22000, FEC 5/6). The chain also is integrated to the offer of the platform of payment BSkyB (Sky Digital).


(22/02/07)