It’s been a while since I last wrote about the HDTV channels I had. I recently changed subscription at Get, from Family to Family HD. The change of channel package only costed 10 NOK extra per month and gave me the following HD channels: MTV HD, SVT HD and Eurosport HD. Recently also BBC HD got added. I am also paying a bit extra for getting Discovery HD. In an earlier article written a few months ago, I criticized Get for their lack of HDTV channels compared to Canal Digital. Canal […] Continue reading →
Just as the last counties in Norway got digital TV signals, I upgraded my digital cabletv tuner to a HD PVR. The two most read blog entries I have written are What does HD Ready mean? and DVB-T with H.264 (MPEG-4), so I thought about writing about HDTV content available in Norway. There are two big companies providing HDTV on cable TV, Canal Digital and Get (both links in Norwegian). I have Get. […] Continue reading →
Our first satelite channel, TV Norge (TVN), is today going HD. TVNorge HD will open with the world’s most expensive TV-series, Rome. Sadly the channel is a corporation between TVNorge og Canal Digital, and will therefor only be available for Canal Digital subscribers, via cabel and satelite. To receive the channel, you must also have an HD decoder, but the channel itself is free. Great TV-series as CSI, Rome, The Closer, Nigel Marven’s Arctic Exposure, Big Bang Theory and […] Continue reading →
Tonight I watched the best HD DVD that I have purchased so far. We all know it a great movie, but on HD DVD the picture is just breath taking on my 720p LCD TV! Black levels are solid and colors are vibrant. There’s no artifacting, noise, or problematic crush and there’s only a slight bit of grain that gives the picture dimension and depth. I can’t wait to see this on 1080p (Full HD). Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire is a U.K. release. It means that this is a PAL […] Continue reading →
This week I bought my HDTV Ready (720p) 32″ Samsung TV, and the first thing I read is that Nippon Hoso Kyokai (NHK – the Japanese govermental broadcaster) has started developing something they have called Super Hi-Vision. NHK already started with HDTV broadcasts back in mid-1990s. Regular HDTV sendings started in 2000! Quite a few years before Europe. So what differs Super Hi-Vision from HDTV? Full HDTV can have the resolution 1920 x 1080 piksler (1080p), Super Hi-Vision will […] Continue reading →
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