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Dobe7777 · 25-03-08, 07:03 PM

UPC Austria and ORF bring Euro HD football

UPC Austria will offer it’s digital HD subscribers a special HD feed of the Euro 2008 Football championship with ORF. Dutch cable operators plan a similar offer with public broadcaster NOS.

UPC Austria will supply the HD set-top boxes and public broadcaster ORF plans to simulcast a special HD version of its first channel ORF1 to be called ORF1 HD. The plan is to also broadcast other programmes in HD quality on the channel. ORF has chosen to transmit in 720p/50 MPEG4/AVC. In The Netherlands public broadcaster NOS is also likely to offer an HD version of the games to cable operators including UPC and the Zesko companies. The total number of HD cable tuners is thought to be around 20,000.

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Dobe7777 Junior Member Join Date: Mar 2008 Posts: 23 Thanks: 0 Thanked 3 Times in 2 Posts	UPC Austria and ORF bring Euro HD football UPC Austria and ORF bring Euro HD football UPC Austria will offer it’s digital HD subscribers a special HD feed of the Euro 2008 Football championship with ORF. Dutch cable operators plan a similar offer with public broadcaster NOS. UPC Austria will supply the HD set-top boxes and public broadcaster ORF plans to simulcast a special HD version of its first channel ORF1 to be called ORF1 HD. The plan is to also broadcast other programmes in HD quality on the channel. ORF has chosen to transmit in 720p/50 MPEG4/AVC. In The Netherlands public broadcaster NOS is also likely to offer an HD version of the games to cable operators including UPC and the Zesko companies. The total number of HD cable tuners is thought to be around 20,000.