International HD news roundup

Here at Engadget HD, we'd prefer not to just focus on high-def happenings in the US of A. Thus, we round up the best of the best from the international front each week and present it here, bundled together in a single, easy to digest list. If something went down in your corner of the globe over the past seven days, let the rest of the world know it in comments. 'Til next week, Auf Wiedersehen!

Read - Five to launch HD TV on Freeview
Read - Bell TV Adds New Channels to HD service
Read - Canadian over-the-air TV following U.S. down digital path
Read - Rogers SportsNet Now Offers More High Definition Programming With 4 HD Channels
Read - Astra wins kudos for HD plan
Read - Canal+ brings HD channels to CI Plus receivers
Read - Pace to launch new HD set-top box to Viasat across Scandinavia

[(Unverified) Posted Jun 15th 2009 9:26PM]

Realistically Bell offers about 40 HD channels to english subscribers - the rest are ppv and french. these new channels are pretty useless.. yippie now i can "time shift" in in mountain time zone (Calgary) or watch local calgary news in HD now? we want more specialty stations, at least I do.. and not the crappy canadian versions of US cable stations...

[(Unverified) Posted Jun 16th 2009 11:48AM]

those are pretty useless channels. I'm not even with Bell TV and I'm unimpressed.
I have Rogers HD, that isn't so great either.