[The News Bot]

They might usually be the greatest of rivals, but the BBC is announcing today that it's embarking on a joint TV venture with ITV aimed at launching a nationally available free-to-view satellite proposition. Apparently the proposition - currently dubbed Freesat - has received approval from the BBC Trust, and is set to...

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[Robbie Razzler]

So does this mean that there may be an ITV HD on sky as well next year?

[dazzer123]

Sounds like extremely good news to me just the sort of news we all need in my opinion

[Jonstone]

For me, this is a much more important development than hd over terrestrial freeview.

At last someone will be able to offer a comprehensive service that is truely capable of delivering an alternative to sky.

For people like myself who live in areas where freeview reception is not good there has only been one choice which is sky, especially if you wanted a pvr such as sky+

Sky will have to respond to this in some way as I am sure there are many people who would swap back to a free service if it offered all the functionality of sky but with just the free to view channels.

[Banksie]

I took part in the survey referenced in this link,it was pointed mostly at HD transmissions ,talking about having a recorder for HD progrmmes over night for you to playback at your leisure,
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/6599599.stm
do you think we will need a 2nd decoder alongside sky hd or will they put the programmes on all platforms?