Last month, Foxtel announced that they were launching 30 new channels on the back of the Optus D3 satellite. What they didn’t mention was price. Now they have, and if you were crossing your fingers that they were going to just give you those bonus channels for free, you’re going to be a bit disappointed. Although it’s not all bad… More »
That Optus D3 satellite launched without a hitch over the weekend. Fingers are crossed everywhere (at Giz HQ, at least) that it won’t be too long before we get bonus Foxtel channels. [Img: Optus]
So when that Optus D3 Satellite goes up this month, Foxtel will get a chunk of the extra bandwidth to launch some new channels. How many channels you ask? 30 new channels, according to the Courier Mail. More »
Optus this morning confirmed that their D3 satellite, which will give Foxtel subscribers a heap of new HD channels (among other things) is set to launch on August 22 between 8:09 and 9:09 am Sydney time. It’ll be launching from French Guiana, which is where they launched both the D1 and D2 satellites. [Optus]
That Optus D3 satellite, which should be bringing a whole heap of new HD channels to Foxtel, among other things, is all set to launch in the middle of August. Here’s hoping everything goes smoothly – as good as all those HD sports channels and nature documentaries are, I’m really just waiting for Sci-Fi to go HD…
[Arianespace via @jendudley]
