HD-Freeview.co.uk » terrestrial broadcasters http://www.hd-freeview.co.uk Independent news & advice on Freeview HD subscription free through your aerial Sat, 24 Dec 2011 20:57:21 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 When can I get it? http://www.hd-freeview.co.uk/when-can-i-get-it/ http://www.hd-freeview.co.uk/when-can-i-get-it/#comments Wed, 27 Jan 2010 21:33:57 +0000 admin http://www.hd-freeview.co.uk/when-can-i-get-it/ In order to bring the benefits of HD on Freeview to as many people as quickly as possible, the Freeview HD rollout has been accelerated with an advance network so that viewers in London, Glasgow, Newcastle, Leeds, Bradford and Birmingham receive signals by the end of March 2010.

The majority of viewers will come into coverage

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]]> In order to bring the benefits of HD on Freeview to as many people as quickly as possible, the Freeview HD rollout has been accelerated with an advance network so that viewers in London, Glasgow, Newcastle, Leeds, Bradford and Birmingham receive signals by the end of March 2010.

The majority of viewers will come into coverage at the same time that they go through digital switchover – including viewers in Manchester covering Preston, Blackburn, Bolton, Manchester and Liverpool in December 2009 and those in Cardiff, who will get Freeview HD by the end of March 2010. For the 7% of the UK population who switched before December 2009, a retrofit programme will bring them into coverage before the end of November 2010. 

 

   

      

Region / Area Transmitter Freeview HD Date
Manchester / Granada region Winter Hill Freeview HD available now!
London area Crystal Palace Freeview HD available now!
Newcastle and Tyneside Pontop Pike Freeview HD available now!
Glasgow, central Scotland Black Hill Freeview HD available now!
Leeds and Bradford Emley Moor Freeview HD available now!
Birmingham Lichfield Freeview HD available now!
Liverpool, central Lancashire, Cheshire, North Staffordshire Winter Hill Relays Freeview HD available now!
Cardiff and Newport Wenvoe Freeview HD available now!
Swansea Kilvey Hill Freeview HD available now!
West and central Wales Blaenplwyf Freeview HD available now!
Carmarthenshire Carmel Freeview HD available now!
Exeter, parts of Devon, Somerset and Dorset Stockland Hill Freeview HD available now!
Bristol, Somerset, Dorset, Wiltshire, Gloucestershire Mendip Freeview HD available now!
Shetland Bressay Freeview HD available now!
Orkney Keelylang Hill Freeview HD available now!
Caithness, North Sutherland Rumster Forest Freeview HD available now!
Rest of Wales Long Mountain, Moel y Parc, Presely Freeview HD available now!
Anglesey Llanddona Freeview HD available now!
Lewis, Wester Ross, North West Sutherland, Western Isles Eitshal Skriaig Freeview HD available now!
Angus, Dundee, Perth, and parts of Fife Angus Freeview HD available now!
Devon, Cornwall, and the Isles of Scilly Beacon Hill, Caradon Hill, Huntshaw Cross, Redruth Freeview HD available now!
Aberdeenshire Durris Freeview HD available now!
Morayshire, Strathspey, and parts of Easter Ross Knockmore Freeview HD available now!
South West Scotland Caldbeck Scotland Freeview HD available now!
Inverness and the Great Glen Rosemarkie Freeview HD available now!
South West Highlands and Islands Torosay Freeview HD available now!
Cumbria and the Lake District Caldbeck Freeview HD available now!
Isle of Man Douglas Freeview HD available now!
Scottish Borders Selkirk Freeview HD available now!
Channel Islands Fremont Point Freeview HD available now!
Bedfordshire, Berkshire (parts), Buckinghamshire, Cambridgeshire, East Anglia, East Midlands, East Yorkshire, Gloucestershire, Herefordshire, Humberside, Lincolnshire, Northamptonshire, Oxfordshire, Shropshire, South Yorkshire, Staffordshire (parts), Stoke-on-Trent, West Midlands (remainder), and West Yorkshire (remainder) Various From April 2011 check digital.co.uk
Berkshire (remainder), County Durham, Greater London (remainder), Hampshire, Isle of Wight, Kent, Northumberland, North Yorkshire, Surrey, Sussex, Teesside, Tyneside Various 2012 More precise dates will be released nearer the time check digital.co.uk
Northern Ireland Various 2012 More precise dates will be released nearer the time check digital.co.uk

Remember: To receive Freeview HD you must wait until Freeview HD has been enabled in your area this could happen before your official digital switchover date as the Freesat HD rollout has been accelerated.

Please check your post code with the Freeview HD free tool
before purchasing any Freeview HD product just to be sure!

]]> http://www.hd-freeview.co.uk/when-can-i-get-it/feed/ 0 What is Freeview HD? http://www.hd-freeview.co.uk/what-is-freeview-hd/ http://www.hd-freeview.co.uk/what-is-freeview-hd/#comments Wed, 27 Jan 2010 21:06:42 +0000 admin http://www.hd-freeview.co.uk/what-is-freeview-hd/ Freeview HD allows you to watch High Definition programmes via your normal TV aerial.

Freeview HD is being switched on in advance and in parallel with the digital switchover rollout which is currently well under way and will be fully completed by 2012 across the whole of the UK.

See our When Can I get it? section

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]]> Freeview HD allows you to watch High Definition programmes via your normal TV aerial.

Freeview HD is being switched on in advance and in parallel with the digital switchover rollout which is currently well under way and will be fully completed by 2012 across the whole of the UK.

See our When Can I get it? section to see when Freeview HD will be available in your area it might be sooner than you think and might be before digital switchover is complete.

Thousands of homes in the UK currently have HD ready televisions and still only watch television in standard definition. With Freeview HD you will be able to watch your favorite programmes in High Definition for free with no contract and no subscription costs through your normal TV aerial.

Freeview HD has already started. London covering Preston, Blackburn, Bolton, Manchester and Liverpool, Glasgow, Newcastle, Leeds, Bradford and Birmingham will receive Freeview HD by the end of March 2010. A full commercial Freeview HD launch is planned for Spring 2010.

Manchester, Cardiff and Swansea will receive Freeview HD by March 2010 as they go through digital switchover.

If you have already been through switchover, you’ll be able to get Freeview HD before the end of November 2010.

It has already been announced that the five terrestrial broadcasters will provide High Definition channels:

  • BBC HD
  • ITV HD (early 2010)
  • Channel 4 HD (early 2010)
  • S4C (early 2010 – Wales only)
  • Five HD – to be added by late 2010

Remember: To receive Freeview HD you must wait until Freeview HD has been enabled in your area this could happen before your official digital switchover date as the Freesat HD rollout has been accelerated. See our when can I get it? section to see when your area is due to to be enabled.

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