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4OD and Demand 5 Delayed
derek500
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http://www.joinfreesat.co.uk/4od-and-demand-5-launch-delayed-until-early-2013/
Following recent updates from both Channel 4 and Five, we now know that 4OD and Demand 5 won’t be launching on the service until early 2013. We did hope to launch both On Demand services before Christmas and have been working closely with the teams at Humax and the broadcasters to this end, but unfortunately this hasn’t been possible. Work on the technology that manages the delivery of the programmes via the internet and the software inside the receiver to manage the video play back has taken longer than anticipated. 4OD and Demand 5 also require additional content protection for their programming which is a complex technology that the development teams are still working through.
We know this will be disappointing news, but we have confidence from both broadcasters that all efforts are being made to launch these services as soon as possible in the new year.
As we know more we’ll update you.
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I'm also amazed that it's so hard to get catch-up services onto a box. Especially as Virgin Media has had them for years. Even today, Sky does not have 4OD despite being ahead of the game on many other technological fronts.
How about the studios being A LITTLE LESS PARANOID?!
How to piss off your viewers and push them into the arms of the pirates 101..
In other words, forcing people to work around the issue instead of.. I dunno.. embracing it?
If the security on Youview clients is good enough for the Beeb, why is Channel 4 objecting, for instance?
You don't really get a user guide, it's a small guide basically just covering the G2 guide operation.
Sure. Just wanted to find details on the network settings and whether they are the same as for the Foxsat HDR. I have to give my devices their own IP address instead of using DHCP.
Thanks to Barry at My Humax the guide is downloadable from here.
http://www.freesat.co.uk/help/product-support
It won't help with your query though
No I see it doesn't! I appreciate that probably 99% of people just need to plug in and go.
Thanks for the link though!
A selection frame has appeared today Tuesday 29th January, on SKY+HD On Demand, " Coming Spring 2013 "
In addition to the usual BBC, ITV, Channel 5 and SKY etc
Don't know about Freesat as I don't have that.