Eurosport HD launches right on time

by Darren Murph posted May 26th 2008 at 12:06PM

Right on cue, Eurosport HD has gone live. The high-definition sports network is currently airing in Poland on Cyfra+, Cyfrowy Polsat and N, Sweden on Com Hem and Denmark on YouSee. It's also slated to show up soon on a smattering of other European cable / satellite providers, though no specifics have been detailed just yet. Hit up the gallery to see a couple of comparison shots between the SD and HD variants -- looks good from here!

[Thanks, Arsenal and AreKK]

Gallery: Eurosport HD launches right on time

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Tags: europe, eurosport hd, EurosportHd, football, global, soccer

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Patrick @ May 26th 2008 2:57PM

Darn it, I was going to comment on that but you guys beat me to it!

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cypherstream @ May 26th 2008 3:33PM

It says full hd in the lower right corner, does that mean they are broadcasting 1080p ???

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DustoMan @ May 26th 2008 3:41PM

Wonder if this weekend's WRC coverage will be in HD?

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Rob Bourne @ May 26th 2008 5:00PM

Can the UK Sky service get this yet?

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Anton Nilsson @ May 27th 2008 2:02AM

Quality is actually pretty poor. Mostly due to poor source materials or so it seems.
And though it says Full HD it's actually 1080i.

Percieved resolution on my 47" 1080p-set is not much greater than the regular Eurosport but at least it's in widescreen and the bitrate isn't piss poor.

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Mike @ May 26th 2008 6:32PM

so when is eurosport going to be coming to directv? i had the privilege to live in germany for 2 years and i swear 80% of what i watched was eurosport. sure do miss watching WRC...

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tuco @ May 27th 2008 2:52AM

On Finnish cable network I've been watching it, quality has looked very nice on my 1080p projector whenever they actually use HD source. It seems that the French Open games shown live are proper 1080i but some (but not all) of the delayed games (e.g. yesterday when it was raining in Paris) were just SD content upscaled to 1080i. Also, the wrap-up studio discussion and the snippets of the games after the last match were just upscaled SD.

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Onesolo @ May 27th 2008 4:51AM

It was also lauch here in Portugal by Meo from Portugal Telecom.
The quality is superb altought I'm still with an old 16:9 CRT

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Achilles @ May 27th 2008 10:21AM

The picture alone already looks MUCH better than what the Tennischannel-HD (Directv) is outputting. I guess it could be worse. It could be stretch-o-vision (TBS/TNT).

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