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Many already have a HD-ready TV set, but have to pay their monthly subscription to actually enjoy high-definition. BBC and ITV have launched a new channel, Freesat, a digital satellite TV service that's totally free. Besides being free the channel offers high-definition programming and will be available to 98% of UK's homes.
Freesat will feature more than 80 TV and radio channels, but it's expected to rise to 200 by the end of this year. To watch Freesat you only have to do a one time payment for a digital box, satellite dish and installation. ITV's and BBC's chairmen will come with more news about the service later, but for now we can expect BBC1, BBC2, BBC3, ITV1, ITV2, ITV3 and ITV4. Other interactive channels, children channels and important news channels (BBC News, Al-Jazeera English) will follow soon.
For now we can only hope that this will be a growing trend, although we should understand that these channels will probably be overloaded with commercials.
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It is usually worse than paying for commercial free channels. Not to mention who wants to see news channels in HD, sure I don't. Also children channels are very important to be HD, kids cannot live with SD as far as I know.
HD hype, there are several parts of life where HD is not needed. These two fields I mentioned above are such places, but well good to see some more adverts in HD are coming. 
I think I speak for the majority when I say porn should be on that list. I don't think I need to see the clarity of a pimple on some guy's hairy ass. But maybe that's just me.
Discuss.
Oh my bad, yeah porn was forgotten, hehehe...
As you know Al-Jazeera and alike channels could air their low res DivX quality interviews with idiot politicans in HD...
Plus a HD porn channel, oh my god I cannot live without that anymore.
Let me see, all in all do I need HD at all ?
Won't BluRay and a PS3 be enough for me ??? j/kThis message was edited at: 07-05-2008 01:19
