Sky HD
Published June 14th, 2006 in TV's, Technology
My Dad decided to jump at the chance of getting Sky HD (the first available HD in the UK - comes over satellite), and well we don’t have it yet. We should of had it on May 27th, but sadly due to Sky HD’s overwhelming popularity they haven’t been able to make enough boxes. Thompson, who I believe is maing the Sky HD’s digital receiver box, is behind on schedule for some people, as they didn’t think it would be this popular. Fingers crossed we should be watching high def goodness by Saturday afternoon, as Sky should be coming to install it Saturday morning.
At the moment there are quite few channels offering HD content but some of them are quite enjoyable (I hope). The channels are; Sky One HD, Sky Box Office HD (pay-per-view), Discovery HD, Sky Sports HD, BBC HD, Artsworld HD and National Geographic HD. I am quite keep on Discovery Channel and BBC as they host some quite popular programs such as the World Cup on BBC and MythBusters on Discovery HD. My exams end in about a week and half, so I probably will do a lengthy if not full review of the services and feeds.
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What, if anything, made your dad go for Sky over the Telewest/NTL offering? Reputation, choice of programming, not being in a TW area, not wanting cable, price? I’m just curious. Shame you didn’t get in time for the start of the World Cup.
We had normal Sky anyway as a service, and I don’t think he’d heard about Telewest/NTL’s HDTV service (I was surprised too, as I only found out when reading a link from your blog). My dad had previously wanted NTL’s cable TV but we don’t get it in our area. We’ve had Sky for a while now, ~ 6 years and we really didn’t consider switching as it was fine for us. Mostly my dad had heard of Sky’s offering through adverts and the Sky website, so that’s why we knew nothing about NTL/Telewest’s offering.