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Sky TV giveth and Sky TV taketh away. The satcaster has confirmed it’s been able to launch more HD channels by reducing their bandwidth. It’s understood Sky’s sports channels and its upgraded Action and Classics movie channels are beaming out in 1440x1080i rather than the 1920x1080i standard. “Yes, some of our channels have this compression,” […]

Sky TV’s reluctance to add HD channels in the short term seems at odds with its latest profit results. In a shareholders statement, chief executive John Fellet attributes a 19% jump in net profit,  to $50.8 million, for the six months ending December 31, to uptake of its MySky HDi. He also reported churn of 13.8%, with Sky […]

It turns out Sky TV boss John Fellet does have a “friggin’ idea” of when the satcaster may launch a 3D service here, at least according to today’s NZ Herald. In his column, media commentator John Drinnan reports the possibility of Sky using spectrum from the four analogue channels it will shut down next month […]