TV’s with Freeview HD

ITV1 HD Miss England Goal!

ITV1 HD broadcasting the opening England v USA World Cup inadvertently cut to an advert for car marker Hyundai just before Steven Gerrard scored the opening goal for England in the fourth minute. ITV’s incompetence fail us. The standard definition version of ITV1 did not cut to adverts:

Ofcom publishes consultation on Freeview HD content management proposal

Ofcom has published a second consultation on a BBC proposal to control how its and other broadcasters’ high definition content is made available on Freeview.

HD programmes have already begun to be broadcast on Freeview in parts of the country and HD Freeview boxes will be available in the shops shortly.

Ofcom’s consultation asks whether the BBC,

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Freeview HD goes live

Freeview HD completed a successful technical launch today 2nd December 2009 from the Crystal Palace transmitter covering most of London and the Winter Hill transmitter covering the Manchester/Granada television areas.

On launch BBC HD and ITV HD were available, Channel 4 HD is expected to follow in time for the main commercial launch in March/Spring 2010. Five

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