[London Lite]

I think France still use the older DVB-T system for HD, but I can't disagree that French DTT (TNT) is a lot better than in the UK thanks to a real proper conversion to HD along with tighter regulation over mux & LCN slots. (There are still some SD slots, LCI being the major channel still to use SD, along with some regional channels depending on mux space)

While the UK allows for more competition and less regulation over the PQ of channels, it's led to a lot of compressed low bitrate 544x576 SD streams being the norm for commercial multi-channels while there's only one HD mux that is shared between the BBC, ITV, C4 and C5.