Freeview HD has now reached 50% of its target UK coverage according to Ofcom. The coverage has risen by 43% in the last 6 months.As of the June 10th, Freeview HD is available to homes in Birmingham, Manchester, London, Leeds, Newcastle, Liverpool and the majority of Wales. Households in these areas will be able to watch the World Cup via ITV1 HD and BBC HD. However going by ITV's catastrophic HD coverage of the first England game maybe this isn't such a great thing. Those watching England vs USA on Friday 11th June via ITV1 HD missed the England goal following technical issues, I being one of them!
Following the World Cup, Freeview HD will continue to roll out in-line with the digital switchover towards the target of 98.5% availability throughout Britain by the end of 2012.
roll on the digital switch over !
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