It started with General's de Gaulle, who have made us eat some 50Hz for 50 years, and while in the principle it did make some sense, in practice it was totally --- up by the fact that the whole planet opted for 60Hz (a bit like english/americans with their totally random units systems like "miles" and such), which mean I passed my childhood playing videogames in "crashed' mode (like a forced 16/9 over a 4/3 image, it made every charaters looks like a very fat guy...) AND 20% slowed down animation... So then I passed my teenage buying only import consoles and games, which was economically painfull as hell.
Anyway sorry for the OT, but I suddently had to share my distress over the 50Hz story...
Back to your question, the only HD streams there come from a few modern channels like NRJ12 (it has futurama, but the rest is crap) and a few other broadcasts in 720p, but this is just from the relatively recent internet TV deal (freeboxes etc). Believe it or not, but up to 2000 or something like that, french TV had only 6 channels, which were incredibly lame btw!
And while the whole world had 300+ channels, we upgraded to 7, with the adddition of the intellectual brain destructor franco-german channel "Arte" LOL.
