UK: “No HD on DTT”
The UK’s television regulator has said there will be no HDTV broadcasts on digital terrestrial network television before 2013 at the earliest. Andrew Sterling, OFCOM’s strategy development manager, speaking at a Sony-organised HDTV event in London on Dec 2, said satellite (and cable) could move much faster and he praised BSkyB’s satellite initiative, but “until the analogue to digital switch-over has happened, there’s too little space to offer HD services. There can be no HDTV.”

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HD1 adds TurkSat
NTL’s $2.4bn windfall
VOOM still a Go Go
Eutelsat’s 26% share-swap
Berlin abandons analogue
PVR+Mobile will drive TV
Intelsat regains control
Pirates grab AsiaSat
NSS merger pending?
Sky Italia hits 3m
Al Manar ban threat
MONITOR
Romania’s surprise package
COMMENT HDTV’s dilemma