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.
So in short: the reason why we are behind in the HD race is probably that it's to expensive for to few channels.
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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.
So in short: the reason why we are behind in the HD race is probably that it's to expensive for to few channels.