It's affiliated with FOX and ESPN. These games are the nationally televised games in the US.

Sweet, more NFL on free to air than mens basketball.

This is awesome, thank god I just bought a big screen.

If have no interest in the NFL, but this is good news - Ten using their other channel for something different, and could bring about the NBA returning to FTA TV which would be great.

Channel 7 have five different channels. If the NBL could pay/produce the broadcast, and the government eased restrictions, I don't see why these stations wouldn't provide new opportunities for all sorts of less-popular sports and niche interests.

If they're worried about tainting their brand with lower quality production values, just call 73 "Seven Underground" and 72 "Sports Nation", and it'd be fine.

So Foxtel has dropped NFL??? Or will they both run NFL?

Not bagging NFL - but if the former is the case, it means that NBA sells subs and NFL doesn`t so why keep it... We won`t be seeing NBA on FTA in the near future me thinks for that reason... Ten HD might as well be showing professional Lacrosse (which I actually like - but is probably just as minority (interest-wise) as Gridiron in OZ)...

There is no doubt that NFL rights in Australia are far cheaper than what the NBA would request.

But who knows - if the NFL on 10 proves fairly popular it could see 10 import more sports. They already show live Nascar, the PGA tour, and now the NFL.

Whether a sport is a minority in Australia sometimes seems to be the last consideration of programming executives at commercial networks. However in this case 10 must be applauded for not only offering alternate content on their HD channel, but also live sport from the US.

Ok, I know these might be silly questions but I really do not know and there might be other people thinking the same things?

1. What do you need to watch the HD channels?

2. Does it cost money?

3. How do i know if my TV is HD compatible?

http://ten.com.au/hd-faq.html

Hope they show some Raiders games!!

'JR to D-Mac'

To receive the HD channels you need either a HD set top box, a HD TV tuner in your PC or a HDTV with integrated HD tuner.

You can connect a HD set top box to a non-HD TV, provided it has at least the very basic of connections - composite (yellow, white, red RCA). This will enable you to view the HD channels, but in standard definition resolution. Essentially you would be scaling a HD image to the lower native resolution of your display.

Nash2Stoudamire, so I gather you're a Raiders fan too. JR to DMC = Touchdown Raiders!

If you're interested, I suggest signing up on www.raiderfans.net

It's a great forum and I have met many of the members myself when I went over to the US to see a Raider game last year. My username on Rf.net is Chewy316.

Seems Ch 10 - or 10HD in particular are going hard with the Sports theme (which is great).

Sports the have/will be showing LIVE on 10HD

Formula 1
Golf (Not a big fan so wouldn't know which tournaments they do and don't show, just know they show a damn lot of it live)
Moto GP
IPL
Nascar
NFL

Add NBA and it would be the perfect package!

Contiue to slap CH7 with their waste of space 4 channels.

I'm quite a big fan of the Eagles, this is good to see. As a foxtel subscriber, I hope they do more than simply show the same games Foxtel already cover, although i can see how it is good for those people who don't have foxtel.

Anyone know why Ch 10 and ABC can show alternatives on their digital/HD channels, but it's cited as a government problem for Seven not to do it during the Olympics?

I keep reading the same things here about the channels and their (lack of) use of their extra channels.

Channel 7 might have several LCNs (71, 72, 73 etc) but they are not all broadcasting the same content separately - they are are just redirecting back to 70.

The channels are restricted by the anti-siphoning laws about what they are allowed to show on the extra channels. They are not allowed to move things like Olympic events to the HD channel because that limits it to only people with HD receivers. They are allowed to show 'bonus' things like the NFL which wouldn't normally be shown on the regular SD channel anyway. (The ABC is allowed to get away with anything though).

The channels have a limited digital bandwidth until the analogue system is closed down (hurry up already!) so if they were to broadcast on 71 and 72 for instance, the bitrate on the other channels would have to drop and it would look crappy, especially on a big screen.

The anti-siphoning laws are also very much in use in the US - where they were created to protect the lower economic classes who could not afford Pay-TV. The idea being that PayTV could outbid commercial FTA networks and lock out alot of the population from seeing important events.

Here in Australia, as clown dog mentioned, the Aust Government has deeemed that events like AFL, Cricket (but not Indian PL), Olympics etc are protected and must be available to all the public, not just those that can afford HD set top boxes, or even SD. This is also why Foxtel under current laws cannot monopolise a protected event.

Informative ClownDog - thanks.

Would just rather have the option of watching Seinfeld re-runs on a second or third channel rather than all the current material that I have no interest in (crime/law dramas).

I'd prefer it if Ten picked up the NCAA games instead of the NBA, but it would eb a bonus if they showed both!

College ball is so much more entertaining than the NBA.