BBC to broadcast the World Cup in HDTV
The BBC have announced that they will broadcast this year's world cup in HDTV, but only as a trial in London to a limited number of households.
They plan to braodcast this year's world cup and wimbledon during june and july to a few lucky people in London. As yet there are no plans to broadcast HDTV on freeview due to bandwith issues and given the current on going priority to get people switched over to digital from normal analogue services, and there are no details yet of how the trial will work and who will get it.
The very fact that the BBC are planning to broadcast this year's world cup is a massive boost to those people hoping Sky and the BBC can do some sort of deal to get the world cup on Sky's new HDTV service which is due to launch in mid may. We are sure news of the broadcast will be a massive incentive to Sky to broker some sort of deal as the initial take up of Sky HDTV boxes will get a huge boost if customers are able to watch the summers's premiere sporting event in glorious HDTV.
Meanwhile Sky is set to release pricing details of its HDTV service any day now and you will be able to read all about it here first.
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