Thursday, October 01, 2009

New sports channels from Ten Sports and ESPN Star in the offing

Ten Sports is planning to launch a Golf channel in Asia in partnership with Comcast the operators of "Golf Channel" in the US.

In addition Ten Sports is to launch Ten Sports 2 in the future.

There are also reports of ESPN Star Sports planning to launch a Sports News channel in the future.

HBO Asia to go HD from Oct 2nd

From tomorrow (Oct 2nd) HBO Asia will be going HD in Singapore, Phillipines and Hong Kong making it the first regional movie channel to go HD. This is the same HBO that is available on Dialog TV, LBN & PEO TV in Sri Lanka. Initially there will be no difference in Sri Lanka but we can expect the local pay television operators to upgrade HBO to HD status in the future.

We can expect an increase in the broadcast quality of HBO from tomorrow over the local pay television networks but the change may not be too visible over our standard definitions broadcasts and televisions.