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  Sky TV’s new, ongoing “online research community” hopefully signals the first steps towards an improved HD service to rival pay-TV subscriptions in the UK and Australia. Sky launched the initiative this week when it invited subscribers to answer a 10-minute online survey about how they “watch TV in the Internet age”. Prizes ranging from […]

Anyone hoping to get Sky HD on the cheap through the satcaster’s new Igloo venture with TVNZ will have to wait until hell freezes over. The flexible new “pre-pay” DTT service, a kind of Freeview|HD Plus, will combine free-to-air content with 11 of Sky’s basic channels for about $25 a month. They are Comedy Central, […]

It was a big surprise to see TV One’s terrific new LA law drama, Southland, was in HD last night given the broadcaster didn’t promote this fact in the billings it sends media. Less surprising were the show’s ratings. It averaged only half of HD lead-in Criminal Minds’ viewership and about a third of SD rival Rookie Blue’s on […]