This delay will do that a part of the subscribers of Sky Digital could not receive to tiemp his terminals requested to be able to continue the World cup of Soccer of Germany.

Digital Sky installed this Monday, May 22, the first day of throwing of his offer in HD approximately 2.500 decoders. We have the assertion on the part of Thomson that the terminals production will double in next three weeks, has indicated a spokesman of Sky Digital, according to the electronic edition of the newspaper The Guardian.

Digital Sky has received 40.000 requests from last April 13, dates in that the British operator threw the offer of the option HD, thinking topcoat about the event of the World cup of Soccer.

Sky HD regroups the chains Sky Sports, Sky Movies, Sky One, National Geographic and Discovery in high definition with access to the Cup of the World of Soccer across the channel BBC.

Sky HD will have a cost of 10 £ / month to those that it is necessary to add to the basic fertilizer of Sky (between 15 £ and 42,50 £/month). The subscribers will pay the same way 299 £ for the terminal including a hard disk of 160 GB, what it will allow to record up to 30 hours of contendios in HD or 80 hours of content in SD using the full Sky functionality +.

(24/05/06)