When will HDTV arrive in Europe?

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Maff Mace @ Jul 27th 2006 3:57AM

I have HD in the UK, but I can see why most people don't. (I'm basing this on DSat - SkyHD, not cable - Telewest as Telewest is only available to a small percent of the population and has even less channels than DSat)
1) it was only released in May with a very expensive box and subscription increase (meaning a LOT of people paying over £50 a month which is around $90-100US)
2) the box is still very "buggy" and wasn't really tested very well, recordings get lost, the box freezes and turns off quite often
3) There's a huge demand for boxes but not enough around so there's a large waiting time for installation
4) I think this is the main point: Content!
while the US has plenty of channels in HD, the BBC don't have any "main" channels in HD (channels 1-5) and all the shows imported from the US are spread over 10 smaller channels over here, some of which don't even broadcast in widescreen, let alone HD (we've had widescreen digital TV since the late 90's)

The original story says "Surely having pubs, sporting arenas, and friends' homes to watch the small amount of HDTV on will help spur growth as it has in other countries"
There's around 30 pubs in the whole country with HDTV (there's about that many pubs just in my village), I know of no sporting arena's that show HD on their TV's, myself and my brother have HDTV in our homes but there's so little content that there's nothing to show people, it's not like there's ANY prime time shows on, just movies and sport

@ poster #1, why do you think we're not part of Europe?
if it's the figures, then remember there's a lot less than 100,000 HDTV viewers in the UK alone.

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