Cinemax Poland just like HBO Poland(soon in N, I hope)and AXN(distributed by HBO Central Europe) is in SD only. These channels uplink is in Hungary via Amos sat. (PowerVu). They have some problems with picture quality.
Anyway there's a big hype in Poland about HDTV right now. In 2007 there can be about 10 channels in HD. Nsport, MGM, Discovery, NationalGeographic, Canal+HDSport, Canal+HDFilm, PolsatSport, EurosportHD, etc.
When N started in october it was like PS3 premiere in US
Only less gun violence
they have problems with amount of STB to sell. ADB is working right now 24/7 so that everyone can get nBox HDTV or Recorder by the end of 2006. Rigt now 45000 STB are sold.
When nBoxRecorder will come out it will be a Total Mayhem