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Planet Knowledge
Planet Knowledge has gone live today on Freeview channel 245 (for viewers in COM7 coverage area). A placeholder has been on that channel for several weeks.
Planet Knowledge is a video on demand portal that features a range of factual documentaries across categories including history, nature, travel, kids, people and culture, science and technology.
Planet Knowledge is a video on demand portal that features a range of factual documentaries across categories including history, nature, travel, kids, people and culture, science and technology.
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That's the same message as me, the signal is fine though
Not really. I'd have thought that the Achilles Heel was your decision to purchase a non-freeview HD TV. Surely we've known for ages that DVB-T2 is the way to go when buying new equipment.
Works perfectly on my Samsung.
The standard hasn't changed - just Synapse decided to whitelist compatible devices, so things that might work don't get that far. Of course the code is different which would cause some discrepancies, but the standards used are the same ones defined in the D-Book.
And like others, it is fine for some IPTV content, but fails on others.
And as others have pointed out here and on other IPTV-related threads, some channels work, some don't (are "not compatible").. Very different from HD-related or DVB-T2 related broadcast content (which do work in all case). Hardly a ringing endorsement of the IPTV "standard" or its implementation on Freeview (whether that be from the "broadcast" end, or the firmware end).
Channel 238 says the same.
In cases such as this or the lack of support on nearly new tv's for new online services, is there a case for the affected units to be returned under the term "fault". In the old days if you had a 8month old video recorder that lost the ability to record but in every other way worked normally, we would have returned it. Is there any difference with this new situation.
Sadly not. The primary function of a blu-ray player is to play blu-rays, as long as it still does that then it can't be described as faulty. I-player, Demand 5 and the like are simply external services and Sony can't be held responsible for the service provider(s) making changes that render said services incompatible with a particular Sony product. Equally the service provider (BBC, etc) is not legally obliged to ensure the service will continue to function on a particular product. I posted the gist of the above in the other thread on iplayer being removed from some Sony devices, and a few weeks later, having lost iplayer, someone wrote to Computeractive magazine asking if he had any case against Sony and/or the BBC, and was given pretty much the same answer.
Maybe we should go back to renting a tv, so when bits of it stop working we can get it swapped for a newer model at the same rental fee.
I did originally predict this sort of thing happening.
Otherwise, you wait until you want to replace or have to replace.
And thus it has always been so, more or less. Manufacturers cut corners/don't adhere to standards in order to produce to a price point. Manufacturers drop support for models after a few years. Technological standards change and new services launch on the back of that new standard.
It's far cheaper to replace a PVR, roku box or chromecast stick than it is to replace a TV who's operating system is obsolete within a year.
Exactly. The manufacturers should be producing monitors only. Monitors which excel in giving the best pictures possible.
This way, the consumer can upgrade the tuner / internet connectivity as and when they see fit to do so.
Same here - it's far too hit and miss.
I removed the ethernet cable from my Icecrypt FreeviewHD box last year, since it was incompatible with any of the iptv channels available.
With the advent of Planet Knowledge, I thought I would give it another try.
After reconnecting the cable to the router I got the following message
"Unfortunately your Freeview TV does not currently support Planet Knowledge"
I tried some of the other channels in the EPG. The only fully working one was TVplayer, but it took about a minute to initially load up. A couple of other channels were just showing a test card and the rest failed.
I disconnected the ethernet cable again.
Some people think the future of TV is via the internet. Judging by the current fiasco that is iptv, I don't think so.
I rarely use the Icecrypt box for watching in HD, but it is useful for recording tv programmes to an external USB hard drive in PVR mode.
The future of TV is via the Internet, that is indisputable. The flawed IPTV implementation on Freeview has nothing to do with it.
Yep, a stand alone monitor with a load of connections is the best way to go, never get out of date as you can add what you want to it.
If i could get a 42inch one at a good price, I would do once my Plasma decides to give up.