SKY HD is the name with which it has been baptized to the first television offer in high definition in Italy. The throwing of this service in HD will be possible thanks to the agreement reached with the operator Eutelsat to arrange of a new transpondedor of the satellite Hot Bird (13th East). Thus the platform Sky Italy will happen to have from 17 to 18 transpondedores in this orbital position.

The programs of SKY HD arrancararán on May 17 making use of the live transmission and in high definition of the final of the Cup of the Champions League between the teams of the Soccer Club Barcelona and the Arsenal. To this event he will be followed in June by the integral coverage of the Cup of the World of soccer of Germany, allowing to the subscribers of SKY HD, equipped with TV sets HD Ready, of living through 64 parties of the competition in panoramic vision.

Using the standard of diffusion DVB S2 and the format of compression MPEG-4, Sky Italy reckons of throwing initially up to five channels in HD across the same transpondedor of Hot Bird once finish the Cup of the World of soccer. In particular the channels that it will start will be monothematic dedicated to the movies, to the sport and to the entertainment.

The cost of access to these programs will be 7 supplementary euros per month for the subscribers of the offer of Sky Italy. The fertilizer to this service will be activated on May 8.


(03/05/06)