High Definition television is everywhere - Martin Stanford from Sky News guides you through the different High Definition services on offer and shows you how to get the best out of your service.
The new Sky HD EPG is shown in video on the following sky news link. (Near the end of the video).
Sky has confirmed rumours that it will launch an advanced on-screen guide for Sky HD in 2008. Sky employees are currently testing the beta version of the new epg. The key elements will be new top-level and genre menus, a “mini TV” viewer and an advanced programme search engine. The news was announced to broadcasters this week, and may pave the way for Sky to beat the current limit on the number of channels its guide can hold. It’s the first change the Sky Guide’s basic structure since it was launched in 1999.
The “mini-tv viewer:
Here are two more (larger) images of the new epg:
Sky’s latest advertisement for high definition pieces together existing footage from films, documentaries, and dramas, to expose the reality of watching TV in HD.
Still frames from the likes of Blood Diamond, Déjà Vu and the documentary Hunter Hunted are used, including scenes of tigers fighting in the snow, and Leonardo DiCaprio ducking out of danger in Blood Diamond.
They were created by “Brothers and Sisters” using After Effects technology.
Sky HD advert:
Setanta has accused Sky of effectively preventing it from launching a high definition service on digital satellite, it was revealed by Ofcom today.
The allegation was made in a submission to the media regulator in July, when BT, Setanta, Top Up TV and Virgin Media called for a market investigation into Britain’s pay television industry.
In its submission, Setanta said: “Much of the content (particularly the US sports content) broadcast by Setanta is filmed in high definition. When Setanta starts broadcasting live FA Premier League matches in the UK from August this year, it would like to provide viewers with the option of watching that coverage in HD.”
It said that Setanta HD would need access to the satellite platform to be viable because “the satellite platform is by far the biggest pay TV platform in the UK.”
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