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BBC HD began broadcasting on 15 May 2006 as a trial station to test the possibility and technical practicality of broadcasting programmes in HD. [2] [3] The first programme to be broadcast that was specifically made for HD was natural history programme Planet Earth, which was shown on 27 May 2006.
BBC HD is also available on Virgin Media and Freeview. BBC One HD was launched on 3 November 2010 on Sky, Virgin, Freesat and Freeview. During 2006, ITV trialled its high-definition service ITV HD. This trial was a Digital Terrestrial trial which broadcast only from the Crystal Palace transmitting station in London. The channel was transitioned ...
The user interface of the BBC Integrated Media Player (iMP) in 2006. The original iPlayer service was launched in October 2005, undergoing a five-month trial by five thousand broadband users until 28 February 2006. iPlayer was heavily criticised for the delay in its launch, rebranding and cost to BBC licence-fee payers because no finished product had been released after four years of ...
BBC Radio 5 Live: News, current affairs, discussion and sport. Yes BBC Radio 5 Sports Extra: Additional sports coverage. No Yes BBC Radio 6 Music: Alternative music, rock, reggae and other minor genres. BBC Asian Network: Station for the British Asian community. In some areas BBC World Service: International radio station for current affairs. No
On 28 May 2010, the BBC announced that they would launch a simulcast of BBC One in HD to accompany the BBC HD channel, which aimed to show the best BBC programming in high-definition, whereas the new channel was aimed purely at being a HD version of BBC One. BBC One HD launched at 19:00 on 3 November 2010. In July 2011, rumours began to surface ...
The Now TV boxes and dongles have extra downloadable apps that provide access to free catch-up or streaming services such as BBC iPlayer, ITVX, and UKTV Play, as well as access to Sky Store, Netflix (added in late 2018), Peacock (added in November 2021), Sky Sports Box Office, Disney+ (added in April 2020) [31] and YouTube. [32]
Freely is a British free-to-air IPTV service launched in 2024 by Everyone TV, a joint venture between the country's public broadcasters BBC, ITV, Channel 4 and Channel 5. [1] The service offers the ability to watch live television and on demand media from the main broadcasters while seamlessly switching between them in a unified electronic ...
This is a list of the current channels available on digital terrestrial television (DTT) in the United Kingdom, and those that have been removed.. Almost all channels broadcast on DTT are free-to-air, with a limited number of subscription channels (requiring a subscription to a pay-TV package) and pay-per-view channels (requiring a one-off payment to view an event) also available.