Antenna Hugária launches high-def packs in Hungary, Olympics are a go
Although Hungarians have tasted HD in their homeland before, we're pretty sure having a full platter is much preferred. National broadcaster Antenna Hugária has just announced that it will be launching HDTV services via its Antenna Digital cable platform at the close of this month. Reportedly, the service will be available initially in Budapest and surrounding locales, though we aren't told if plans are in place to spread it elsewhere. Two new packages are slated to become available, the first of which includes National Geographic HD, Eurosport HD and m2; as for the second, you'll find HBO HD. Better still, those who subscribe to m2 HD will already have a ticket to the televised version of the 2008 Olympics in Beijing (in HD, of course). Prospective consumers will be asked to upgrade to an HD-capable set-top-box as well as hand over HU 990 per month ($6.16) for the first HD tier and HU 799 per month ($5.50) for HBO HD.

















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gabor @ Jul 14th 2008 12:10PM
The service is already working except m2HD which will start at the beginning of August. Tour de France looks amazing in HD on Eurosport.
It's a special broadcast through microwaves so they won't spread it in a larger area in the near future.
Antenna Hungária.
There is also another HD service with the same channels from UPC through cable, so there are some choices already.
m2HD will be available through FTA service from the beginning of the Olympics also. Unfortunately they will use a "modified" version of DVB-T with h264 so most of the tuners are not good for that.