"You don't need to pay a ‘premium' to get high definition (HD) television", Free TV CEO, Julie Flynn, said today.
"In fact you don't have to pay anything at all because the best HD television content is already
available in Australia - and it's free!"
Foxtel today announced the introduction of a new HD set-top box called iQ2 and a new service called Foxtel HD+ which, when launched in the second half of 2008, will offer subscribers over 100 different TV channels including four HD stations – BBC HD, Discovery HD, National Geographic HD and ESPN HD.
Though pricing for the box and the service has yet to be confirmed by Foxtel, the company did reveal today that consumers would pay more for the HD service than the current SD service offered today.
The Free TV consortium however is attempting to keep its customer numbers up by marketing new free-to-air HD services such as 7HD and Ten-HD.
