Comments on: TechniSat Launches Freesat HD Digital Box

By: Steve

Steve — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 10:03:38 +0000

Craig Says:

July 1st, 2009 at 7:48 pm
Technisat have launched a HD box, but without a PVR, and that the Humax HD PVR box has been out for a while now, I was wondering if any had heard whispers of Topfield entering the FreeSat market with a PVR?

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Only if they have signed a Trade Mark License with Freesat and the product passes DTG testing for Freesat compliance. Freesat are being much stronger than Freeview in the regulation of the products available for market. It is interesting to know that 50% of Freeview products have been retrospectively tested by the DTG and FAILED compliance. These are of course nearly all Far Eastern cheap imports.

By: Craig

Craig — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 18:48:22 +0000

Technisat have launched a HD box, but without a PVR, and that the Humax HD PVR box has been out for a while now, I was wondering if any had heard whispers of Topfield entering the FreeSat market with a PVR?

By: Peter

Peter — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 09:57:02 +0000

Just bought this TechniSat HD and have found it to be very user friendly and equal to my Humax HD, actually installed it myself (after paying £65 last time) with the help of a guide from freesatsetup.com, and did it in a couple of hours without any meters or special tools.

By: Scott

Scott — Sat, 27 Jun 2009 17:22:48 +0000

Does anyone know if Technisat will be launching the twin Hard Drive version, and if this receiver still supports the Technisat EPG Service from Astra 1 when in non Freesat mode?

By: Pete

Pete — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 08:36:23 +0000

i fail to see why everyone is moaning about the state of freesat.
As mentioned it is a “credit crunch” and most companies in the world are struggling. freesat as mentioned before is not competing with sky, as much as we would maybe like it to. We can record things for free- sky cant do that. we have cheap affordable HD (ok only 3 channels but it is what it is) Lets face it HD is not as exciting as many people wish it tobe. And we have a wealth of channels which will please most people. Ok i dont like zone reality for instance but my missus does. im very pleased with both the service and the quality of the whole thing. i have 3 different models of freesat boxes (the HDR included) and i cant complain about any of them.
We would all like more channels more this more that, but lets face it, its a free service. Yeah we want Dave and 4music and fiver etc but its ups and downs i know lots of freeview watchers that want channels we have they dont have.
im very happy with it and i would just wish people would be a little more realistic with what they want the service to be.

plus back on subject again, it looks like a cool if somewhat awkward player.

By: Lee B

Lee B — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 13:37:51 +0000

I think Sky could learn a thing or 2 about standby power from Technisat!

More choice is good, though the freesat zapper market is rather flooded, Technisat need some good functions which the other boxes don’t have (USB recording, H264 playback from Usb HDD ??), especially at this price level as it’s not too far off the Humax HDR, which has been dropping in price recently.

I’d also like to see a new/improved Humax HDR model, maybe with a 1 gig HDD now the drives can be had for £45 retail. The standard HDR drive can fill up too quickly with HD material that you want to keep.

By: zag

zag — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 12:34:40 +0000

Good looking box, nice to see it uses very little power as in standby as well.

I’d be interested to see how it compares to the Humax boxes on power consumption.

By: Steve

Steve — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 11:15:45 +0000

Great news with another product,more choice etc,and hopefully more competitive prices,but can anybody tell me what happened to Simply Movies? As a film fan this is a great loss to me!

By: pete w

pete w — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 11:00:38 +0000

hopefully freesat can do a deal with ESPN and get Football.
I’ll Pay £50 a year for season ticket

By: wezo

wezo — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 08:47:03 +0000

Tony Hales- true what you are saying and i never suggested it was in direct competition with Sky+HD. In freesats advertising stratedgy though HD does feature quite heavily. Basicly im trying to say that this years progression in comparison to last year is poor.All these new hardware stories are getting boring in my opinion which im entitled to likewise other peoples opinions. Its all good and well having all singing all dancing kit but when there isnt much in the way of HD/quality channels to showcase it whats the point in flooding the market with all this hardware. Recession = Excuses and not just in the world of Freesat.