Welcome to the party Europe, first major HDTV broadcast

by Richard Lawler posted Oct 26th 2005 at 3:19PM

Take your shoes off though, I just put in new carpet. And the first thing broadcast in HD? Why Tom Cruise of course, while I don't agree with their choice of Minority Report (I'm a Top Gun/Days of Thunder guy), it does make a great show in high definition what with the CG and blowing stuff up.

Germany's ProSiebenSat.1 will be the first to broadcast nationally on Sunday, although a regional cable channel apparently started showing science programs on Tuesday (don't they know? Tom Cruise has done the scientific research). Rival German broadcaster Premier will launch its own HDTV transmissions on December 3. BskyB, CanalSat and Ski Italia have all promised to have their high definition ready for next years World Cup, which will be a showcase for the technology in Europe.

Filed under: OTA

Tags: canalsat, german, germany, hd, hdtv, high definition, HighDefinition, prosieben, tom cruise, TomCruise

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Henrik @ Oct 27th 2005 3:26AM

Canal+ in Sweden premiered their C More HD on Sept. 1, showing movies in HD. Problem is, there is no recievers that can be used yet, but they should be available any day now.

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