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The freesat receiver manufacturers are beleived to be Alba, Sagem, Panasonic and Humax. Alba and Sagem were look after the SD receiver market, Panasonic the in-built receiver market (see previous post) and Humax the high end HD PVR unit, however, it would seem that Sagem might not be involved after all. Details are still unclear, but suggestions are that it might be down to costing issues, i.e. freesat wanting to sell the boxes cheaper than Sagems production will allow to gain a profit.
Information has come to light that Goodman might be in the frame for some of the freesat cake, whether the two are linked, who knows!
Do you get the feeling things are going more backwards than forwards! 
March 16th, 2008 at 10:24 am
Yes, but I hope not.
March 18th, 2008 at 12:20 am
haveing humax onboard for the HD reciever is very important, i would like to see also Pace and nokia to produce recievers as well
March 24th, 2008 at 2:13 pm
thanks much, guy
May 9th, 2008 at 8:04 pm
We have known that Freesat will launch in May since January. Yet, when I go onto the large electrical goods suppliers websites, there are few, if any Freesat recievers for sale. Seems that someone either not got their acts together or there is no profit in it. Probably the later.
May 9th, 2008 at 8:45 pm
Pete – Its nothing like that, don’t worry, its just that the Humax box has not been produced to a sufficient volume to meet demand, and the other manufacturers (all alba group) are experiencing problems with the software installed on the boxes. Give it a month, the full range will be available.