QUOTE (chumbawumba @ Oct 8 2008, 12:56 pm)

Quick question, how old is your HD ready TV, I had this the other day a friend also wanted to use his HDTV to watch HD unfortunatly it is an old set without HDMI (only composite). It's worth noting as Sky will be stopping produciton of HD boxes with composite due to the lack of HDCP content protection.
For the freetards:
Humax are releasing a Freesat HD box with PVR in November, so if you are not wanting to pay for Sky services this should be a good option.
Else you can get a Freesat box without PVR for under 150GBP from the UK.
I'm assuming you mean component here, as composite will not carry an HD signal. I believe Premiere also uses HDCP.
Only HD Free-to-air German channel on 19,2°E is Anixe, which is not so great in terms of what programms are shown. As has already been said, both pro7 and sat1 stopped transmitting HD in February, although ARD and another channel(I forget which) is due to start transmitting HD sometime in 2010.
BBC-HD is the current Free-To-Air offering on the 28,2°E although you can also get ITV-HD on some HD Receiver with some fidling (so far not managed it on my skyplus 2000HD though, but is possible through manually setting the transponder and PIDs apparently). On the freesat boxes, it is accessed via a red button service whilst on normal ITV...
HD programms are gorgeous though. Can't wait for more channels