Comments on: Freesat comment on Freeview announcement

By: dog

dog — Wed, 30 Dec 2009 21:36:40 +0000

jb, as far as I’am aware you can not record the freesat programs from an intergrated freesat tv, but instead you will need a freesat recorder!

By: JB

JB — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 19:00:50 +0000

Freesat is great , I have a Panasonic Freesat Television ….how can I record from this to a hard disc recorder ????

By: joe farrow

joe farrow — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 19:11:06 +0000

my freeview box isn’t getting any signal what shall i do?

By: Nick

Nick — Wed, 22 Oct 2008 08:28:36 +0000

Shouldn’t the title of this thread be ‘HD on Freeview’ rather than ‘Freesat on Freeview’?!

By: Steven

Steven — Mon, 20 Oct 2008 21:28:06 +0000

Quite right Davei . . Unfortunately I’ll possibly be dead in 40 years .. I might not be around to enjoy the benefit of another 2,000 channels, of what?

During this digital era let’s hope we don’t continue with this trend of un-Hi-Fi-ness (audio and visual) and the steadily lowering standards of media distribution and the compromise of real purity.

Turn off everything else and leave me to enjoy BBC Radio and TV, absolute bargain at £12.00 a month . .

By: Glen McFarlane

Glen McFarlane — Mon, 20 Oct 2008 21:17:05 +0000

‘Not be able to record it is a joke’…

Freesat PVRs will be able to record it. Non Freesat satellite recorders can also record it….what was the punchline again?

By: andy

andy — Mon, 20 Oct 2008 20:30:51 +0000

Will ITV HD ever get its own channel on freesat? Not be able to record it is a joke. Cheers

By: Hillary Martin

Hillary Martin — Mon, 20 Oct 2008 15:33:05 +0000

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By: Davei

Davei — Mon, 20 Oct 2008 11:55:33 +0000

Of course, the whole Freeview problem could be solved if the entire platform went over to MPEG4… However, that would render all currently existing Freeview receivers useless! Mind you, as HD rolls out on Freeview, more and more people will be getting MPEG4-capable receivers (and if new SD receivers could be made MPEG4-capable too), MPEG2 could *eventually* be dropped (after about 20 years, maybe!).

Needless to say, much the same could be said of Freesat and Sky – but but with rather less urgency (let’s allow them 40 years!).

By: Steven

Steven — Sun, 19 Oct 2008 23:14:54 +0000

I’m sure there’s confusion between screen resolution and actual source material resolution/bandwidth . . My TV, and most I’m sure, runs at 1080i regardless of channel, HD or not. Certainly ITV1 doesn’t look HD at 1080i! It actually looks better on Freeview.

You could spend £10,000 on a Hi-Fi but if you havn’t got any well recorded music to play it’s still gonna sound cr%p.

The point I’m trying to make is, you might think you’re watching at 1080i or 720p but the actual resolution is down to the broadcaster and source material resolution. The figure simply represents the maximum resolution available, simple.