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[nickc]

Looking through the on-line Foxtel guide for this month's cycling on Eurosports I noticed the Tour of Flanders (Sunday 1 April 11.15pm) had a HD logo next to it?
(Don't worry it is there for other days as well, so hopefully no April Fools joke ha!)
The Paris-Roubaix cycling also has the logo.
(Once again the on-line and printed guides have totally different information)
Does that mean recorded in HD and down-converted?
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[peterca]

Wouldn't take too much notice of the guide, it says a lot of today's programmes are HD as well and they definitely are not. Would like to see Eurosport in HD though, hopefully will happen some day.

[BamBBBam]

If some spare transponder capacity becomes available after the Olympics, you might get lucky.

[nickc]

peterca, on 31 March 2012 - 08:52 AM, said:

Wouldn't take too much notice of the guide, it says a lot of today's programmes are HD as well and they definitely are not. Would like to see Eurosport in HD though, hopefully will happen some day.

Thanks gents, we can always live in hope!
Cheers
NIck

[davmel]

BamBBBam, on 31 March 2012 - 08:57 AM, said:

If some spare transponder capacity becomes available after the Olympics, you might get lucky.

There is still one spare HD channel on each of two horizontal HD transponders sucking up bandwidth for no good reason from the other channels. Bandwidth and available space isn't the issue. Foxtel is just too stingy to sign and pay for the rights to the HD version.

The two vertical transponder Olympics transponders are only temporary and will be deactivated after the games. Foxtel would rather use the two completely unused horizontal transponders for their own channels if they needed the capacity.