A CLIQUE of eager Foxtel subscribers will have access to the pay TV operator's high-definition broadcasts within a fortnight as part of an understated launch of the service.
Since Monday, people who registered their interest in Foxtel HD have been contacted by the company to organise installation of the service from the first week of June.
Customers wanting HD will need to pay $200 for the new iQ2 HD set-top box and recorder, then up to $10 a month for iQ rental and $14.95 a month for all five new channels - BBC HD, Fox Sports HD, ESPN HD, National Geographic HD and Discovery HD.
The latter two documentary channels were to be combined into one, but Foxtel has now decided to broadcast both separately because it has more satellite capacity than it expected.
Foxtel executive director of content, product and delivery innovation, Patrick Delany, said almost 1000 people signed up for HD on the first day Foxtel began selling it.
"Many of the people that were subscribing (on Monday) were taking multiple boxes, so there seems to be a really pent-up demand for it," Mr Delany said.

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