YouTube coming to Freesat in March - Article in the Telegraph
Just read this, hopefully it works out
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/newsbysector/mediatechnologyandtelecoms/media/9860880/Google-to-launch-YouTube-on-TV.html
Bit more info here
http://www.engadget.com/2013/02/11/youtube-channel-coming-to-on-demand-freesat-party-in-march/#continued
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/newsbysector/mediatechnologyandtelecoms/media/9860880/Google-to-launch-YouTube-on-TV.html
Bit more info here
http://www.engadget.com/2013/02/11/youtube-channel-coming-to-on-demand-freesat-party-in-march/#continued
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Welcome to DS, To the layperson, how does it work, plus do you work in the trade
As it's YouTube obviously over the Internet, you will need to connect your Humax G2 box (NOT your TV) to the Internet to access it.
Assuming your TV is a (so called) 'SMART' TV, then it may already do YouTube.
However, it hardly seems very big news?.
Personally I'm not too worried about all the 'catch-up and other internet services myself, although that's just as well with my G1 box.
So you have to add your usual pointless dig at Sky - why don't you just get a life?.
Now then, children, play nicely.
'coming soon' I guess.
Also, if you're going to stylise Freesat, at least stylise it correctly as all lower case freesat. They never use all capitals.
Youtube has been available on my Panasonic Freesat PVR/disc player for 4 years.
Only the integration with Freesat as such is new (and limited, it seems, to recent boxes).
Freesat today announced it has sold its 3 millionth product, taking gross retail sales to well over £1bn; four years after the service first launched in 2008. Internet phenomenon YouTube are joining the Freesat celebrations and will soon be available on the platform, in a first for free British TV.
Freesat added 55,000 new households in the third quarter of 2012. This is more than Sky (25,000 households) and BT Vision (20,000) combined in the same period.
Emma Scott, Freesat’s Managing Director said: “In just four years we have established ourselves as a real challenger and genuine alternative to pay-TV. In that time we’ve delivered choice and quality, subscription free. Customer choice has driven every stage of our development; not least the launch of our second generation service, in Q3 of last year. We’re now delighted to add to our already fantastic customer offering with YouTube. They join Freesat at a time of rapid growth for our business and will offer our viewers an exclusive, first view of their latest version – previously unseen on free to air TV in the UK.”
YouTube is the world's most popular online video community allowing millions of people to discover, watch and share originally-created videos. Access to the YouTube app will soon be possible from the Freesat platform - the first time the service will be available from a free to air provider in the UK. The version of YouTube that will be launched is built on HTML 5 and will be its very latest iteration offering a TV-optimised, visually stunning and fully interactive viewing experience.
Peter Sherman, Product Marketing Manager for YouTube said, "We’re happy to be working with Freesat so that Freesat users can now access YouTube from the platform. Our creator community is developing quality content that will delight and inspire viewers and we’re pleased to be able to bring it to people in new ways.”
Emma Scott added: “Today’s great news is a testament to our ongoing commitment to delivering genuine viewer choice.”
What you can't see is the graphic that indicates it will be exclusively available on the Freesat <Freetime> platform.
Perhaps they are hoping that non <freetime> owners will purchase a new <freetime> box - increasing the number of units sold.
I wonder just how much a home movie of someones cat having a dump is going to be "a TV-optimised, visually stunning and fully interactive viewing experience."
Not great news for the the owners of the 2,990,000 odd devices that can't get it!!!
doesn't the viewer want more HD Channels, On Demand from ITV, 40D and Demand 5 ?
ongoing - that's the only word that appears to be true, as many items regarding freesat are 'ongoing'/coming soon.
Looks like the G1 boxes are left in the cold.
It was kind of inevitable that the G1 boxes would be left out in the cold with on demand content due to pretty much every video streaming service moving over to HTML5.
not so much of being as future proof
*does anyone have any more precise figures?
My old Freeview box can't get iPlayer, but my newer one does; but even that can't connect to the latest IPTV channels being offered. My tv doesn't play mkv files but the latest ones do.
My G1 spec freesat box can't do <freetime>, but like everything else, that's progress for you and I'm not going to cry about it. The important thing is it still gets all the freesat satellite channels and records them as it should. :cool:
Not great news for the the owners of the 10,000,000 owners of sky boxes that can't get it either derek500:D
I'm OK, my both my LG Smart TV and smart Blu-Ray have YouTube.
Thats good for you derek 500:), may be you will be able to post on a sky forum for change, and tell them what they will be missing when You Tube really gets going, I know You Tube has been going for a while but I think it will get better in the next year:)
Zero according to joinfreesat.
http://www.joinfreesat.co.uk/freesat-celebrates-3-million-sales/
So this quote from The Guardian is total nonsense!!
http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2013/feb/11/youtube-launch-tv-channel-freesat
55,000 give or take a few if the following statement is correct
See the post above. None of the Q3 55,000 were <free time>, as it wasn't on sale until Q4.