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Australia: Foxtel clarifies its AFL broadcast in HD

By  |  September 24, 2012

The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission welcomes the steps taken by Foxtel Management Pty Ltd to improve the level of information provided to consumers about the picture quality and resolution of its broadcasts of AFL games on the Fox Footy HD and Fox Sports 1 HD channels. Foxtel broadcasts nine games of AFL on these channels in high definition in each round. Of those nine games, five are filmed using high definition cameras and then broadcast in high definition while four games are filmed in standard definition and then up-converted to high definition before they are broadcast.

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