Sky HD is the brand name of the HDTV service launched by Sky Italia

Sky Italia

Sky Italia S.r.l. is an Italian digital satellite television platform owned by News Corporation launched on 1 August 2003, when the former platforms TELE+ and Stream TV merged together...

 on 20 April 2006 in Italy

Italy

Italy , officially the Italian Republic languages]] under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages. In each of these, Italy's official name is as follows:;;;;;;;;), is a unitary parliamentary republic in South-Central Europe. To the north it borders France, Switzerland, Austria and...

 - during 2006 FIFA World Cup

2006 FIFA World Cup

The 2006 FIFA World Cup was the 18th FIFA World Cup, the quadrennial international football world championship tournament. It was held from 9 June to 9 July 2006 in Germany, which won the right to host the event in July 2000. Teams representing 198 national football associations from all six...

 - to enable high definition channels on Sky Italia to be viewed. The service requires the user to have a Skybox HD (distributed by Sky Italia), and a HDTV with HDCP enabled.

A HD PVR decoder called My Sky HD was launched on 26 May 2008 (on 20 December 2008 was sold a particular edition designed by Fendi

Fendi

Fendi is an Italian high fashion house best known for its "baguette" handbags. It was launched in 1925 as a fur and leather shop in Rome, but today is a multinational luxury goods brand owned by LVMH...

 in favour of the international organisation Child Priority).

Technical information

The first generation of Sky Box HD were produced by Amstrad

Amstrad

Amstrad is a British electronics company, now wholly owned by BSkyB. As of 2006, Amstrad's main business is manufacturing Sky Digital interactive boxes....

 and Pace.

Channels

The following channels can be found on the given channel numbers. On standard definition SkyBoxes the corresponding SD channels are availabile on the same position of their HD counterpart.

Channel Number	Channel	Owner/parent company	Package
109	Sky Uno HD	Sky Italia Sky Italia Sky Italia S.r.l. is an Italian digital satellite television platform owned by News Corporation launched on 1 August 2003, when the former platforms TELE+ and Stream TV merged together...	Mondo/Entertainment Mix
111	Fox HD Fox (Italy) Fox is an Italian Entertainment TV channel, owned and produced by Fox International Channels Italy and broadcast in Italy by Sky Italia on Channel 111. Timeshifts of the channel are available at channel 112 and 113...	Fox International Channels Italy Fox International Channels Italy Fox International Channels Italy S.r.l. was created in 2004 with headquarters in Rome, Italy, and is the owner of the Italian version of a number of channels broadcast on Sky Italia such as:-Entertainment:* Fox HD* Fox +1* Fox +2* Fox Life* Fox Life +1...	Mondo/Entertainment Mix
117	Fox Crime HD Fox Crime (Italy) Fox Crime is a television channel in Italy owned by Fox International Channels Italy, dedicated to crime series. It is one of the most popular pay television channels in Italy, and was the most viewed pay channel in 2008 and in the first quarter of 2011....		Mondo/Entertainment Mix
120	AXN HD AXN AXN is a Pay television, cable and satellite television channel owned by Sony Pictures Entertainment, which was first launched on May 22, 1997. The network is now spread across several regions in the world, including Japan, Europe, other parts of Asia and Latin America...	Sony Sony , commonly referred to as Sony, is a Japanese multinational conglomerate corporation headquartered in Minato, Tokyo, Japan and the world's fifth largest media conglomerate measured by revenues....	Mondo/Entertainment Mix
200	Sky Sport 24 HD	Sky Italia Sky Italia Sky Italia S.r.l. is an Italian digital satellite television platform owned by News Corporation launched on 1 August 2003, when the former platforms TELE+ and Stream TV merged together...	Sport
201	Sky Sport 1 HD		Sport
202	Sky Sport 2 HD		Sport
203	Sky Sport 3 HD		Sport
204	Sky Sport Extra HD		Sport
205	Sky Supercalcio HD		Sport/Calcio
210	Eurosport HD Eurosport HD On 25 May 2008, a HD simulcast version of the main channel launched - the first event covered in HD being the 2008 French Open at Roland Garros.-Launch:...	TF1 Group TF1 Group TF1 Group is a French media holding company , the owner of channel TF1, the largest European private TV channel, and Eurosport, the largest European sports network.The group was formed after TF1 was privatised in 1987...	Sport
251	Sky Calcio 1 HD	Sky Italia Sky Italia Sky Italia S.r.l. is an Italian digital satellite television platform owned by News Corporation launched on 1 August 2003, when the former platforms TELE+ and Stream TV merged together...	Calcio
252	Sky Calcio 2 HD		Calcio
253	Sky Calcio 3 HD		Calcio
254	Sky Calcio 4 HD		Calcio
255	Sky Calcio 5 HD		Calcio
256	Sky Calcio 6 HD		Calcio
257	Sky Calcio 7 HD		Calcio
258	Sky Calcio 8 HD		Calcio
301	Sky Cinema 1 HD		Cinema
302	Sky Cinema +1 HD		Cinema
303	Sky Cinema +24 HD		Cinema
304	Sky Cinema Hits HD		Cinema
306	Sky Cinema Family HD		Cinema
308	Sky Cinema Passion HD		Cinema
310	Sky Cinema Comedy HD		Cinema
312	Sky Cinema Max HD		Cinema
313	Sky Cinema Max +1 HD		Cinema
315	Sky Cinema Classics HD		Cinema
351	Sky Primafila 1 HD		All (PPV Service)
353	Sky Primafila 3 HD		All (PPV Service)
355	Sky Primafila 5 HD		All (PPV Service)
357	Sky Primafila 7 HD		All (PPV Service)
359	Sky Primafila 9 HD		All (PPV Service)
361	Sky Primafila 11 HD		All (PPV Service)
363	Sky Primafila 13 HD		All (PPV Service)
370	Sky Primafila 20 HD		All (PPV Service)
401	Discovery Channel HD Discovery Channel Discovery Channel is an American satellite and cable specialty channel , founded by John Hendricks and distributed by Discovery Communications. It is a publicly traded company run by CEO David Zaslav...	Discovery Networks Europe Discovery Networks Europe Discovery Networks Europe is a subsidiary of Discovery Networks International. The network was established in 1989 with its headquarters based in London and New York....	Mondo/Knowledge Mix
402	National Geographic Channel HD	Fox International Channels Italy Fox International Channels Italy Fox International Channels Italy S.r.l. was created in 2004 with headquarters in Rome, Italy, and is the owner of the Italian version of a number of channels broadcast on Sky Italia such as:-Entertainment:* Fox HD* Fox +1* Fox +2* Fox Life* Fox Life +1...	Mondo/Knowledge Mix

Unknown dates

• Real Time HD
  Discovery Real Time
  Discovery Real Time is a factual television channel owned by Discovery Networks Europe.It was originally launched in the UK in March 1992 as TLC, a British version of the US channel of the same name...
  
   on channel 124
• MTV Live HD on channel 709

External links

• Sky HD on sky.it
  Sky Italia
  Sky Italia S.r.l. is an Italian digital satellite television platform owned by News Corporation launched on 1 August 2003, when the former platforms TELE+ and Stream TV merged together...
  
  
• Sky HD TV Guide