Telewest's HD service was provided exclusively through their TV Drive box.

* On Demand: On Demand ( Formerly known as Teleport ) was the brand name for Telewest's video on demand ( VOD ) service.

Telewest's HDTV service launched several months earlier than that of their chief competitor, Sky Digital.

Telewest's fees however included the TV Drive recording service, equivalent to the recording features of the Sky + service.

* TV Drive was the name of Telewest's Digital Video Recorder ( PVR ) service.

Similarly, Telewest's product incorporated three tuners while Sky's incorporated only two, meaning that Telewest's service could record two channels at the same time while watching a third.

Telewest's internet service called Blueyonder, formerly branded as Cable Internet, ran on the cable internet architecture and offered speeds of 2 Mbit / s, 4 Mbit / s and 10 Mbit / s downstream.

On 10 December 2004 it was launched on Telewest's digital cable service, and soon afterwards on the NTL digital cable service.

The merger agreement as structured would have left NTL having to negotiate with BBC Worldwide, the BBC's commercial arm, due to a change-of-ownership clause written into the agreement for UKTV, a joint venture with Telewest's Flextech content division.

The majority of Telewest's television was digital.

NTL On Demand uses the Teleport system on Telewest's network.

Not long before this, however, the television-camera gantry, which was originally erected on the West Stand, was moved to the East Stand, somewhat negating the effectiveness of Telewest's advert.

The News Multiscreen was removed from the digital service in October 2009, to make room for future Freeview HD broadcasts.

Previously, network programming from the United States was received on cable via affiliates from Spokane, Washington, but local viewers now have more choice, given the advances with cable or satellite television that are now being offered as digital or HD ( high definition ) service.

In January 2006 Telewest started to broadcast HD documentaries such as The Blue Planet, Planet Earth and Pride, through their Teleport service, and later broadcast some movies in HD.

Sky launched their HD service in May 2006, initially charging a £ 300 setup fee and an additional £ 10 / month for several subscription HD channels, including HD versions of Sky One, Sky Movies and Sky Sports.

With two channels ( BBC HD and ITV1 HD ) Freeview HD completed a " technical launch " on 2 December 2009 from Winter Hill ( as a full power service ) and Crystal Palace ( as a reduced power temporary service ) and operates on multiplex BBC B ( aka Multiplex B or PSB3 ) from that date in regions that switched-over on or after that date, with the service coming to all regions by the end of 2012.

Until 17 October 2011, the Commercial Public Service Broadcasters had the opportunity to apply to Ofcom to provide an additional HD service from between 28 November 2011 and 1 April 2012.

Freeview HD is the first operational TV service in the world using the DVB-T2 standard.

The BBC proposed to ensure compliance with copy-protection standards on the upgraded Freeview HD multiplex by compressing the service information ( SI ) data, which receivers need to understand the TV services in the data stream.

The VoD service also provides HD content that will work in conjunction with the TV Drive PVR.

Michael Jackson's memorial service was also presented in HD, with Kay Burley presenting.

Although Ten HD was initially expected to be the first new commercial television channel in metropolitan areas of Australia since 1988, it was instead beaten to the punch by Seven HD.

The HD channels were initially offered for as a separate package, but starting on 1 April 2008 this package was dropped in Sweden and the HD channels were included in the " Family " package.

It initially broadcast a completely separate schedule from the standard definition channel, with only HD content and without ads.

Although not initially included in the change, KWCH added HD weather forecast segments in March 2009.

The new HD DVR Set top box initially provided 8 HD channels, but this has been increased to 18 from the first week of March 2012.

The debris disks around the stars HD 139664 and HD 53143.

90 % of the ice in the latter was found crystalline at temperature around 50 K. HST demonstrated that relatively old circumstellar disks, as the one around the 5 million year old B9. 5Ve Herbig Ae / Be star HD 141569A, are dusty.

Recording sizes for Freeview HD television transmissions average around 3 GB per hour.

These planets may have vast differences in temperature between their day and night sides which produce supersonic winds, although the day and night sides of HD 189733b appear to have very similar temperatures, indicating that planet's atmosphere effectively redistributes the star's energy around the planet.

Planet HD 209458b is a gas giant with a close orbit around a star in the constellation Pegasus.

In the build-up to this launch, they have been upgrading their studios and several bureax both in the UK and around the world to be able to broadcast in HD.

HD Radio testing has been authorized in Canada, as well as other countries around the world.

* HD 155358 has two planets around the lowest metallicity planet-harboring star ( 21 % Sun ).

Replacing an earlier version made of various pieces of baseball equipment, the new bottle features a HD display around the label, as well as LED lighting.

Testcards now only appear during the annual RBS Test Transmissions ( part of engineering works taking place around January ) and during the BBC HD preview loop, which uses the BBC HD Test Card.

Spectroscopic studies first revealed the presence of a planet around HD 209458 on November 5, 1999.

Since legitimately licensed noncommercial LPFM stations cannot do any of these things ( have multiple stations, operate commercially, use higher powers and unlimited heights, or afford to rent an " HD " channel or AM station ) despite being in the same FCC class D, no community radio stations have gone on-air in or immediately around the city since the 1980s, and two have been forced off-air in the 2000s.

To get around FCC rules which require these stations to relay another station, it technically carries the HD Radio channel 2 signal from WNNX FM 100. 5 according to FCC records, although " 99X on 97. 9 " is its branding and is clearly its primary outlet.

In the UK, around 70 free-to-air television channels and 25 free-to-air radio channels are available terrestrially via the Freeview DVB-T service, including up-to four HD channels ( via DVB-T2 ).

There were reworked HD sideline graphics, a descendant of the " Rundown " used in overnight versions of SportsCenter on ESPN, which wrapped around the top left and bottom of the HD screen.

Spectroscopic studies first revealed the presence of a planet around HD 209458 on November 5, 1999.

Mu Arae ( μ Ara, μ Arae ), often referred to by its designation in the Henry Draper catalogue HD 160691, is a main sequence G-type star around 50 light-years away from Earth in the constellation of Ara.

However, as streaming HD video takes around 1. 5 gb of data per hour of video the BBC has had to invest a lot of money collected from License Fee payers to implement this on such a large scale.