New Zealand doesn't have to be jealous of Australia much longer, as
Freeview OTA HD service is on track to launch in April. Call Auckland, Hamilton, Tauranga, Napier, Hastings, Palmerston North, Wellington, Christchurch or Dunedin your 'hood? Then you'll probably be able catch
Lord of the Rings next time its broadcast in HD and marvel at the beautiful scener...oh, nevermind. Still, we're sure you'll find a good reason to check out TV1, TV2 and TV3, with appropriate digital set-top box and antenna.
Read - Freeview readies for main event
Read - Freeview - What's New?
Ugh, just what Freeview needs in New Zealand. The warmly anticipated new Mediaworks channel, Plus 1, will actually bring nothing new to the platform. Instead, it'll simply be a one-hour delayed broadcast of TV3, and worse still, the stale content won't even be beamed out in high-definition. Yeah -- that's despite TV3's original content being available in HD. We'd bother with telling you that it's coming out sometime within next year or so, but you've probably already stopped reading in disgust.
