Freeview HD Digital Terrestrial  (DTT) is a HD Service.

The Freeview HD supports broadcasting in high-definition, programmes including many of  TV ONE's, TV2's and TV3's popular programmes are already broadcast in HD. The popular TV3 show Boston Legal was the first television programme to be screened in native HD on Tuesday, April 1. Subsequent shows to broadcast in HD include Back to You, Bones, City Homicide, CSI : Maimi, CSI: New York, Home and Away, McLeod's Daughters, Medium, My Name Is Earl, NCIS, Prison Break, Private Practice, Rove, So You Think You Can Dance Australia, The Jaquie Brown Dairies, The Librarians, The Young and the Restless, Underbelly, Women's Murder Club,  and many more.

What is HD?

HD stands for high definition, it uses a higher resolution to display video than traditional SD (standard definition).

The Freeview HD platform supports both 720P and 1080i HD video,  the video can be displayed with upto 5 times as many pixels as SD resulting in outstandingly sharp images.

MPEG-4 / H.264 AVC

The Freeview HD platform uses the latest MPEG-4 video compression technology.

MPEG4 is more efficient at compressing video than MPEG2, this is why it has been chosen for the Freeview HD platform. It allows higher quality video to be broadcast using the same amount of bandwidth as with MPEG2. The example below shows how use of better compression technology reduces the compression artifacts allowing video of higher quality to be received. The use of high performance compression technology is particularly important where there is large amount of data to compress i.e. HD signals.