Comments on: TechniSat HDFS Freesat Group Winner

By: Richard Crichton

Richard Crichton — Fri, 01 Apr 2011 11:41:12 +0000

New firmware 28th Feb 2011 Digital UK Ltd Technisat HDFS Version Number 1666 Patch 7 N 28-02-2011

By: Iain

Iain — Sat, 20 Mar 2010 18:07:29 +0000

@ProfZarkov, David – I get this message too, tried factory reset but no difference, which tech support did you email ? I’m wondering if its my firewall or a networking problem. We did get iplayer before Christmas in the beta testing…

By: David

David — Sat, 13 Mar 2010 19:41:45 +0000

I have had a number of issues like programmes not recording

Currently If I hit red button I get “Due to technical problem, we are unable to carry out your request at this time.” too

Also only way I could ever see ITV red button HD was do a factory reset on the day of a HD prog being broadcast – I cured this by Staying in Technisat mode and adding ITV HD stream (which makes it recordable) – Sweet

Add it 11.427 H 27.5 Fec 2/3 chan 10510 (sadly it cannot be renamed but hey it works)

Picture Quality is still the Best out there – Roll on the Updates

By: ProfZarkov

ProfZarkov — Sun, 07 Mar 2010 18:07:55 +0000

Still getting no teletext . . could this be a pre-iPlayer issue?

On pressing the red button, I now get “connecting…” in place of the old “wait”

and then this message:

Due to technical problem, we are unable to carry out your request at this time.

We apologise for any convenience.

Curious. And NO text services on any other channels . . I’ve rest the box back to factory reset but no difference . . .I’ll have to email tech support.

By: Richard Crichton

Richard Crichton — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 13:29:51 +0000

Read on another forum that a firmware update is expected around the 13th of March.

By: ProfZarkov

ProfZarkov — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 10:13:43 +0000

Any news on the iPlayer update?

By: Prof Zarkov

Prof Zarkov — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 18:04:36 +0000

Seems it may have been the handset (;-}
Replaced the batteries & it’s working now!

By: Steve

Steve — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 17:09:08 +0000

@ProfZarkov

Is this loss of text on MHEG or Teletext services?

By: ProfZarkov

ProfZarkov — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 08:45:53 +0000

Overall quite pleased with this box but it is still a bit flaky. I’ve been thru most of the problems above . . the 10 min shutdown . . . the loss of radio channels . . loss of most of the epg . . .a factory reset cured all of these. I now have a problem where I can not get any text service & the box brings up an error – is this a real satellite service problem or this box? Factory reset didn’t cure it so I’m hoping it’s the former! I’m guessing that with another software update due in the not too distant future, with the iPlayer included, most of these niggles will be ironed out. (or cynically, knowing software developers/testers . . more bugs brought in!)

By: Rozzo

Rozzo — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 15:12:06 +0000

From my research Technisat make several variants of the same box for different market sectors, a generic version, a HD+ german version etc plus versions that are a little larger that contain twin tuners as generic receivers. They definitiely have the technology to make everything work perfectly. The other single tuner boxes also have pvr functions and the most recent of those have the functionality from build and include a pvr style remote. The UK freesat version appears to have had several items (hard & soft) omitted presumably to get it down to a UK mass market acceptable price. The story going around is that plan A was to develop a twin tuner freesat model but that too many obstacles from freesat approval delayed or cancelled that plan and so plan B was to “re-enable” the HDFS with pvr functions. They almost all work very well for me except as per my list in post 30.