HDTV UK

Artsworld HD has a couple of particularly interesting programmes this weekend (5-6 January). On Friday at 8:30pm is a high definition journey around London with the renowned historian Peter Ackroyd...

Ever wondered what that spare storage capacity on your Sky+ box is for? Well now we know, for today Sky announced a couple of tweaks to its Sky+ service including the option of viewers being able t...

It's an inevitable fact of life that as HD becomes the norm, then the movie offerings that are delivered with higher quality pictures become gradually more pedestrian overall. For every Star Wars o...

The National Geographic channel continues to showcase the best of its extensive high definition programme library with another chance to see this documentary (on 6 January), which follows the uniqu...

Biohazard suits at the ready! If bird flu doesn’t come back and get you, there’s always the chance that another deadly virus spreads from person to person and, before you know it, an entire city ha...

After the Lord of the Rings trilogy it was an inspired choice for Peter Jackson to return to his pet project, a remake of his favourite film, King Kong. Coming in at twice the running time of the o...

The BBC sees out 2006 with another chance to see some the year’s best HDTV programmes, along with simulcast premieres of new drama. The long weekend begins with a rerun of the stunning Planet Earth...

The famed first-person shooter game gets fleshed out in movie form in this futuristic Aliens-style sci-fi action flick starring The Rock. He leads a team of marines whose mission to Mars involves l...

The recent Casino Royale has raised the standard for macho action movies but cult film-maker Luc Besson has been toiling away on his own brand of martial-arts tinged actioners for a few years, pure...

Do you want some more? Viewers certainly haven’t been left lacking when it comes to film or TV versions of this Dickens story. Although the best-remembered movie version remains David Lean’s 1948 c...