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To all our readers and rss subscribers, just want to take the opportunity to wish you all a very Merry Christmas and Happy New Year 
Will be back in 2010 with news on some forward advances in the Freesat platform including full scale launch of BBC iPlayer, ITV Player, more products and more channels…including HD!!! 
For now, enjoy the festive season and thank you for reading joinfreesat.co.uk
December 23rd, 2009 at 5:36 pm
Many thanks for a very informative site. I have been released from the clutches of PayTV with Freesat. Merry Christmas
tinca tincaQuote
December 23rd, 2009 at 5:51 pm
“Will be back in 2010 with news on … more channels…including HD!!! ” – could this be the long awaited Channel 4 HD??? What a tease!!!
DavidQuote
December 23rd, 2009 at 5:53 pm
Really appreciate the work put into this site over the past year. It helped me make my decision to move to Freesat and kept me informed about products and Freesat changes. Lets hope we see some more interesting channels join Freesat in 2010, keeping my fingers crossed that some will move over after their current contract with Sky is up for renewal (SciFi would be best!).
Richard HayesQuote
December 23rd, 2009 at 5:54 pm
Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to all at Joinfreesat !
lizQuote
December 23rd, 2009 at 6:30 pm
Merry Xmas
This really is a very informative site and been very helpful over the past year.
Thanks
JonQuote
December 23rd, 2009 at 6:32 pm
been great following this site this year,looking forwards to 2010 .thanx for the good work
darnall42Quote
December 23rd, 2009 at 6:33 pm
More channels…..including HD! Whoop, whoop!! Bring it on.
Brian PQuote
December 23rd, 2009 at 6:36 pm
…and a Merry Christmas to you. Thanks for all the good work over the last 12 months (and before)
Bryan SpinkQuote
December 23rd, 2009 at 6:47 pm
Hi! Also want to say thanks for all the useful info you’ve detailed for the 8 months I’ve been reading.
Merry Christmas!
John KingQuote
December 23rd, 2009 at 7:04 pm
Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to all at Joinfreesat, Freesat and the BBC iPlayer Team for the very nice pressy “code #” Thank You, all. Pay TV Free now!!!!!
Christopher RobinQuote
December 23rd, 2009 at 7:09 pm
All the channels are going HD? That’s nice.
Ian TindaleQuote
December 23rd, 2009 at 7:12 pm
Merry Xmas, thanks for all the info and let’s hope for good freesat news in 2010!
Lee bQuote
December 23rd, 2009 at 7:23 pm
Well done Admin and your team – thanks for all the info in 2009 and looking forward to more in 2010.
Happy (free!) Christmas to all fellow Freesatters!
Al CatrazQuote
December 23rd, 2009 at 7:27 pm
You’re a tease as ever Join Freesat!
KevinQuote
December 23rd, 2009 at 7:37 pm
Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to all at Joinfreesat, and THANK YOU.
Robert
Robert HudsonQuote
December 23rd, 2009 at 8:11 pm
Merry Christmas to you and all the people who post here.
Thanks for a great informative website I look at it daily for all the info I need.
Have a good one and look forward to 2010 news here
Paul
Paul CooperQuote
December 23rd, 2009 at 9:27 pm
Merry Xmas to all you hard working lot at joinfreesat. Keep up the great work
ZubeirQuote
December 23rd, 2009 at 9:57 pm
please santa.
can i have more channels on freesat in 2010.
id like,
a sport channel and a documentry channel ,in hd will be nice but if you cant make it happen ,sd will do.
ps c4 hd will be great on freesat.
thanks santa thats all i want…..(for now)..
stuartAQuote
December 23rd, 2009 at 11:16 pm
Thanks a lot Admin – keep up the good work!
JoelQuote
December 24th, 2009 at 7:22 am
Merry Christmas all.
I wonder if we get a surprise on Christmas morning from freesat…..one can hope
AshQuote
December 24th, 2009 at 7:33 am
Thanks to everyone at admin for a very informative and helpful site.
Merry Christmas to you all!
jonboy1959Quote
December 24th, 2009 at 7:50 am
Admin – Your post suggests there will be no new threads until next year. Is this the case, as I regularly check for new threads, so will not bother if it is correct. Thanks too!
Glyn SmithQuote
December 24th, 2009 at 8:12 am
Thanks for a really informative site – Merry Christmas and A Happy New Year.
DenisQuote
December 24th, 2009 at 8:27 am
@Glyn Smith
It isn’t likely that there will be more new posts in the next week as the major players in the industry are all on holiday so news will be limited. Naturally if anything comes up that can’t wait, we’ll publish, but we need a break too
adminQuote
December 24th, 2009 at 9:04 am
I purchased the Humax PVR this time last year and have never looked back. Thanks for the free service it has satisfied all our needs. We were with virgin and and by switching to freesat have almost paid back all of costs for the box and installation.
PeterQuote
December 24th, 2009 at 9:26 am
Thanks Admin, all the best to you all. Merry Xmas and a Happy New Year
MarkQuote
December 24th, 2009 at 9:30 am
Thank you very much for all the information you provide on JoinFreesat plus all the comments & tips from posters.
Some seem very quick to moan & don’t seem to realise Freesat is exactly that, FREE, so should not expect everthing pay TV provides. I
think the service is excellent, especially now with BBC iplayer. I’m really looking forward to future enhancements such as ITV player & more HD if & when they arrive.
Merry Christmas & Happy New Year to you all!
DipperQuote
December 24th, 2009 at 9:42 am
Merry Christmas! Very helpful site: thanks to all concerned and the clever people at BBC for bringing us iplayer. Watched Spooks last night and was very impressed with quality (albeit on a 20in screen). Have 3 Humax boxes so this is great news!
Have Sky HD too – the picture’s great, content average to poor, hardware rubbish. If Freesat improves content (quality not quantity) just a bit it will be a real winner.
JockQuote
December 24th, 2009 at 9:45 am
Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to all at Joinfreesat from david
davidQuote
December 24th, 2009 at 9:50 am
Glyn (22) – have you tried using the RSS feed? It saves having to check the site for new threads.
Al CatrazQuote
December 24th, 2009 at 10:40 am
Merry Christmas to JoinFreesat and to all you contributors!
Steve
Steve LQuote
December 24th, 2009 at 10:44 am
Merry Chrismas to all on JoinFreesat.
Lets all wait with baited breath for the big release next year for the HD …. QVHD, ReligionHD & CookeryHD …. can’t wait!
Happy New Year
Pete
Pete WoodsQuote
December 24th, 2009 at 11:05 am
@11 Ian Tindale.
That would logical since all new large screen televisions are HD capable. All channels should be HD. Don’t see any broadcasters still using 405 lines or black and white!!!!!
Richard CrichtonQuote
December 24th, 2009 at 11:12 am
Joyeux Noel tous le monde, bonne annee 2010. Freesat est tres bon en France. Merci pour tout l’ information.
DenisQuote
December 24th, 2009 at 5:32 pm
Thanks for all the tips and information on FreeSat and a merry Christmas ‘JoinFreesat’.
PS. I took home a ten metre cat5 patch lead to try out BBC iPlayer last night and it was very good, particularly in High Quality, standard was a little soft on my 42 inch screen. I’ll have to run this cable under the floor next year for a full time fix. It ran very well I’m on 2 to 3MB broadband, but I share that with two daughters on wirless and my son with his Xbox 360 wireless, oh and my wife and I are hardwired to the router from our PC.
Derek BQuote
December 24th, 2009 at 5:43 pm
Thank you for your continued running and support of this forum.
Wishing you all a Happy Holiday and best wishes 2010. Dan & Jim.
SussexdanQuote
December 24th, 2009 at 5:48 pm
Well done to the guy that keeps the website up to date with all the latest info.. I look forward to all the news and updates that are sure to come in the new year…. Best wishes
james guyQuote
December 24th, 2009 at 6:13 pm
If your going to guess the next free HD channel on freesat my moneys on
QVC HD. It makes so much money and in HD, what a way to display your goods. Sky news is going HD in 2010, but will they scramble their HD feed.
This is a great site, look at it every day to see what every ones moaning about
or not. Had my humax hdr for a year now.and its fine. every night theres something in HD from either ITV HD or BBC HD.
PS is your hard disk all ways full.
happy christmas every one.
TerenceQuote
December 24th, 2009 at 6:31 pm
Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to all at Join Freesat and to everyone else who visit this site.
RonWQuote
December 24th, 2009 at 6:36 pm
Happy Christmas to one and all – and let’s just hope that the next HD channel ISN’T a shopping channel. Then again, if QVC could launch a channel in HD, it doesn’t say much for certain other channels…
Brian DamageQuote
December 24th, 2009 at 6:44 pm
Merry Christmas and a happy New Year to everyone at joinfreesat, and all who use this site. Does admin know something we don’t ? Maybe we have more goodies to look forward to in the near future. As it’s christmas, and not april 1st, I must say I am rather optimistic after reading admins comments.
RussQuote
December 24th, 2009 at 7:11 pm
Happy Christmas to Everyone here.
BrenQuote
December 24th, 2009 at 7:35 pm
Merry Christmas to you all, and I wonder if santa will bring Scuzz back next year??…
LloydQuote
December 24th, 2009 at 9:13 pm
Happy Christmas to you to – it’s been a really useful site to subscribe to. Will you be covering developments in Project Canvas?
Rob HQuote
December 24th, 2009 at 11:18 pm
Happy Christmas to you too.
MJQuote
December 24th, 2009 at 11:34 pm
All the best to everyone at joinfreesat, I purchased a Panasonic Bluray PVR with Freesat before the Digital Switchover in the North West of England back in November and haven’t looked back. I’m to purchase two new Panasonic Freesat enabled HD TV’s over the next week too to replace my existing, now defunct, analogue sets. Freesat offers better bitrates than equivalent Freeview channels so SD picture quality looks better which is what is important for me. Reviews of Freesat enabled TV’s seem to agree with this too.
Lets hope C4HD makes it on to the platform in the coming year, I have a fair amount of confidence that they will dependant on when SES can free up some space on 2D at 28.2E. I’m also confident that the platform will grow further in the coming year as it’s now getting more and more commercial exposure.
This site is great for keeping up with news on EPG additions + new channels and features for the platform, I have the RSS feed bookmarked!
Keep up the good work.
NeilQuote
December 25th, 2009 at 10:03 am
Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to all.
Here’s wishing for more Freesat Channels and more HD New Year
JimQuote
December 27th, 2009 at 12:48 pm
Happy Christmas to all Freesaters. Anyone out there wishing to share with me the BBC iplayer code so that i can have a preview of what to expect.
grahamQuote
December 27th, 2009 at 12:52 pm
5483
Only works on Humax receivers though
peter piperQuote
December 27th, 2009 at 8:58 pm
ok thank you for the code what do we do with that code
nickyQuote
December 28th, 2009 at 1:22 am
Go to any BBC channel. Press RED BUTTON. Now type in the code as a page number… Press enter.. there you have it BBC iplayer…
Just make sure before you start.
You have a HUMAX FOXSAT BOX
You have the Ethernet cable connected to your Humax.
TomQuote
December 28th, 2009 at 7:12 am
Nicky @ 50.
Call up your normal teletext screen and type the code in the page number box, press enter, and you’ll get the i-Player menu.
Happy viewing!
jonboy1959Quote
December 28th, 2009 at 10:35 am
thanks for the code. Just tried BBC iplayer and it works. excellent definition in both SD and HD. Well done Freesat. I hope ITV Player works as well. I am so pleased I decided to gor Freesat instead of Sky. I get excellent reception and fantastic picture quality in All modes. Keep up the good work.
grahamQuote
December 28th, 2009 at 1:32 pm
ok thank you it works
nickyQuote
December 30th, 2009 at 3:43 pm
Terrence; QVC in HD? I doubt it they don’t even transmit in HD on Sky and Virgin. My guess would be CH4 HD or maybe ITV will finally launch a dedicated HD channel. I would say any new HD channel would be a channel that already transmit in SD on Freesat, unless they launch in SD and HD on Freesat at the same time in which case Lux TV would be a candidate.
As for any other new channels in 2010, Fiver, Five USA, Virgin 1 and Dave would all be welcome.
RjayQuote
December 30th, 2009 at 11:32 pm
Great site with some very useful info. Have a great New Year and keep up the good work!
Duncan WalkerQuote
January 6th, 2010 at 5:02 pm
Happy New Year! Thank you for an excellent and informative website, I’m sure I speak for alot of people when I say your work is really appreciated. I’m a very happy Freesat + customer!
Andy HayesQuote
January 7th, 2010 at 6:40 pm
Hi and all the best for your new year!
Just joined ‘Freesat crew’ with my Humax HD. Finding the picture quality fantastic – no problems what so ever.
However I have been shocked that Five, FiveUS, Dave, not available right now.
Is there anything I can do to so as to get channel information\details in the display bar at the bottom of screen when the ‘i’ button is pressed?
HansenQuote
January 7th, 2010 at 6:41 pm
FANTASTIC SITE! THANKS ALOT!
HansenQuote
January 8th, 2010 at 5:55 pm
wots the chances of eurosport player on freesat that would be a very nice addition
cidQuote