Five and Sky today announced the launch this Summer of Five HD, a high definition version (HD) of Five which will show programming that has been made in HD. Five HD will start broadcasting to more than 2 million Sky+HD homes in July.
Five becomes the 42nd channel to join Sky's HD ranks following news that ITV 1HD, Sky News HD, Sky Sports 4 HD and the Hallmark channel in High Definition will be launching in the next few months.
Sky are hoping to have 50 HD channels by the end of 2010.
Sky has recently started offering the Sky+ HD box as the standard box to all new customers who sign up to their service. This, we believe, is not only to support the ever growing list of HD channels available but will also cater for the next big thing in TV.. 3D TV!
Sky intends to launch 3D TV to pubs and clubs in April before rolling out the service to residential homes later this year. As mentioned before, subscribers with a 3D ready TV and a Sky+ HD box will be able to view 3D content without having to update their set-top-box.
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