BBC HD will be coming to Freeview HD next year, it has today been confirmed.
Lucky viewers in London's Crystal Palace area and Winter Hill in Manchester will be receiving Auntie's HD transmissions on Freeview HD from as early as December of this year.
By March 2010, Freeview viewers in Greater London and Manchester, Glasgow, Leeds, Newcastle, Bradford and Birmingham will all be capable of receiving HD content. The majority of the rest of the country should be able to watch free HD channels by the winter of 2010.
Freeview HD will use the new DVB-T2 standard, which the BBC themselves have helped develop over the past few years. It also uses MPEG-4 compression, a great advancement over the MPEG-2 compression currently used in standard definition Freeview.
However, viewers will have to purchase a new set-top box or compatible TV to view the new content.
For more details on when your region will be receiving HD content, click here.
Wow a new post? Is this right? I take it shiny won't be letting me take this one over after all then? Last question I heard only shinyshiny and techdigest were being updated now?
I know, it has been a long time coming! We're going to start off slowly with a few posts a day, but hopefully we'll have HDTV UK fighting-fit in a week or so.
Where can I buy a new settop box from in time for Christmas do you think? Even on import?
Don't bother buying a new settop box. Wait until the DVB-T2 compatible ones come out next year. No current ones will work with Freeview HD.