Ofcom states HD services could be on Freeview by late 2009

In Ofcom's Annual Lecture delivered at the beginning of the week, Chief Executive Ed Richards defended the regulator's views on high definition TV via Freeview.

He said that Ofcom was "platform neutral and pro-competition," and added that, "we have not been persuaded of the argument that the best way to maximise the social and economic benefit of the released spectrum is simply to gift some or all of the released spectrum to broadcasters."

Moving to propositions and timescales, he said that, “For some time now Ofcom has been developing a proposal which would enable us to clear an entire multiplex and convert this to an improved compression and transmission standard.”

This could see limited high definition services coming onto Freeview as early as the end of 2009, regardless of the state of digital switchover happening around the country.

(Via Broadband TV News)

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