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<title>Engadget HD - Comments for Netherlands' SBS seeking nominal yearly fees to pay for HD broadcasts</title>
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<generator>Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/</generator><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Netherlands' SBS seeking nominal yearly fees to pay for HD broadcasts]]></title><link>http://hd.engadget.com/2009/01/15/netherlands-sbs-seeking-nominal-yearly-fees-to-pay-for-hd-broad/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://hd.engadget.com/2009/01/15/netherlands-sbs-seeking-nominal-yearly-fees-to-pay-for-hd-broad/</guid><description><![CDATA[I am from the Netherlands, but i do pay a subscription fee to watch analog cable. Its 15 euros. To watch digital cable i have to pay for a seperate package. To watch digital cable HDTV theres is an additional package. So if SBS decides that they also need money than i think i pay about 40euros total to watch their programming in HD.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[DirtyDutch]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Jan 15th 2009 10:33AM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Netherlands' SBS seeking nominal yearly fees to pay for HD broadcasts]]></title><link>http://hd.engadget.com/2009/01/15/netherlands-sbs-seeking-nominal-yearly-fees-to-pay-for-hd-broad/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://hd.engadget.com/2009/01/15/netherlands-sbs-seeking-nominal-yearly-fees-to-pay-for-hd-broad/</guid><description><![CDATA[Belgium here :) My carrier (telenet) charges €12.73 ($16.64) for analog tv. If you want HD you need to pay €6 ($7.84)/month extra for a standard HD settop-box  and €8 ($10.54)/month for a settopbox with harddisk for recording. Then you can recieve 6 HD channels wich in my case aren't even interresting (1 is in another language, 2 are just boring local stuff, 1 kidz channel, 1 boring culture channel and national geographic wich is ok but that exciting). There are 2 extra HD channels that are good (sports and movie channel) but they come for another €5 ($6.54) extra. About the settopboxes: they are pure proprietary crap (slow and not stable firmware) full of vendor locks and you have no other choise of hardware.<br><br>So in short: the reason why we are behind in the HD race is probably that it's to expensive for to few channels.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[MaT]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Jan 15th 2009 1:58PM</pubDate></item></channel></rss>