Sky News HD

Looks like we are getting a few new hd channels from sky.......sky news from the summer,itv1hd april 2nd.......sky sports hd4,hallmark hd,film4 hd.all from the summer.sky want 50 hd channels before the end of 2010.

"Spring 2010" or "In the coming month's" depending which of Sky's press releases you read.

Though not sure in the point of Sky News HD,personally.

All we have so far from Sky is "spring 2010", as you can read here. I'll try and get a more precise date when I next speak to their press office.

Andy Clough:

All we have so far from Sky is "spring 2010", as you can read here. I'll try and get a more precise date when I next speak to their press office.

Would appreciate that Andy. Being quite a newsaholic, I'm kinda looking forward to seeing the the new presentation.

I had heard 22nd March, but think things may have slipped a little. I'm betting it will be before the election though!

Thanks

LL   

Sky News HD is now listed as broadcasting from txp 39 on Astra 2B(and has been since monday). It's obviously still testing,but i would expect it's launch to be imminent.

http://en.kingofsat.net/detail-skynews-hd.php

There's quite a bit of speculation on the web that Sky News HD will launch this Tuesday. If that was the case, I would have thought they'd have been advertising the fact by now. Does anybody have any inside info?

Cheers

LL

According to KingOfSat (http://en.kingofsat.net/find.php?question=sky+news) Sky News HD is currently broadcasting. Presumably they are testing the system.

It seems they are using a Symbol Rate (Mbaud) of 29500 which, as far as I'm aware, can't be accessed using a Sky+ HD box. Can anyone confirm please?

Thanks

LL 

LittleLouie:

According to KingOfSat (http://en.kingofsat.net/find.php?question=sky+news) Sky News HD is currently broadcasting. Presumably they are testing the system.

It seems they are using a Symbol Rate (Mbaud) of 29500 which, as far as I'm aware, can't be accessed using a Sky+ HD box. Can anyone confirm please?

Thanks

LL 

Incorrect-All most all HD channels on Sky use a Symbol Rate of 29500.

It's just they cant be manually tuned/added and viewed via other channels if they do as there's no option in the "Add Channels" menu to select that Symbol Rate..

daveh75:

Err,yes i posted the same info a fortnight ago in my above post.

No intentention of raining on your parade!

I merely wanted to let people know that they are currently broadcasting again having stopped on the day of your original posting.

Sky have confirmed that SKY News HD will be broadcast on Channel 517.

It will broadcast the party leaders' debate on 22nd April and also results programme on election polling day. It's currently unclear whether a full daily schedule will be broadcast on or before these dates.

Cheers

LL

I see Sky are now broadcasting on Channel 517. Albeit only a countdown to the election debate which currently stands at 9 days: 13 hours: 13 minutes: 41 seconds....make that 40 seconds.....39....,,

Yes, confirmed in our News story yesterday.

5 days: 21 hours: 50 minutes: 29 seconds....28 seconds.....27......

Sky News HD will launch with the next election debate next week...on sky news!!!

The three party leaders in high definition. A real treat for the viewers...