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Freesat getting left behind...
spacepostman
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What a shame Freesat is starting to turnout a bit of a disappointment.
Despite having superior technology to YouView and still no sight of any onDemand except BBC iplayer lite* for most viewers despite years of promise, tons of decent channels hidden as they aren't tempted onto the FreeSat EPG and now talk of it being abandoned except for a few high-spec boxes and their new Freetime venture. Their advertising seems to have stopped all together after Christmas too.
Virgin Media's onDemand even without a Tivo box is probably the best I've seen and YouView's has got pretty much everything they could get on time for launch which shocked me. http://www.youview.com/features/on-demand/
Have they all fallen asleep at FreeSat HQ?
Will 4OD and Demand 5 ever be added? and http://forums.digitalspy.co.uk/showthread.php?t=1660276 < nothing is moving. Freesat is going to get left behind.
Despite having superior technology to YouView and still no sight of any onDemand except BBC iplayer lite* for most viewers despite years of promise, tons of decent channels hidden as they aren't tempted onto the FreeSat EPG and now talk of it being abandoned except for a few high-spec boxes and their new Freetime venture. Their advertising seems to have stopped all together after Christmas too.
Virgin Media's onDemand even without a Tivo box is probably the best I've seen and YouView's has got pretty much everything they could get on time for launch which shocked me. http://www.youview.com/features/on-demand/
Have they all fallen asleep at FreeSat HQ?
Will 4OD and Demand 5 ever be added? and http://forums.digitalspy.co.uk/showthread.php?t=1660276 < nothing is moving. Freesat is going to get left behind.
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With a PVR, Freesat is a superb platform. Masses of material to watch and the PVR functionality means that you can keep a buffer in case there is the odd period with nothing in which you are interested. And there are always DVD's if there is the something you desperately want to see and doesn't come up in transmissions.
It's as if every time some new source comes up people suddenly become dissatisfied with something with which they were perfectly happy, before.
I got the impression that 4OD and Demand 5 was coming to all freesat HD TVs/boxes. (not just <freetime>)
http://www.freesat.co.uk/files/7713/3346/3548/Freesat_Olympics_announcement_FINAL.pdf
thus purchased my Samsung TV, only to find that BBC iplayer was the only On Demand service.
Then Desiree advert sugested that freesat was getting a new EPG called <freetime> with no mention of a new box needed - Now the advert has in the small text near the end of the advert that a <freetime> freesat+ box is required.
Luckily, with my Samsung TV - it has ITV player app (including a much improved BBC iplayer app, compared to 901) and many more On demand features.
It's doing exactly what it was supposed to - if you want something else, then get something else?.
Is it? I hadn't noticed.
I think all the people who think freesat a disappointment are trying to compare it to $ky !! You cannot do this, $ky is a premium subscription service. Yes its better but you have to pay to watch it.
To be honest all the catch up services on PVRs are a little limited. We do all out catch up TV via a PS3 console if you have one (and our love film too) as the clients are a little more advanced. There you already have 4OD too, its just Demand 5 you are missing and that's no great loss is it.
However at the end of the day, you've got a Freesat PVR just record the shows you want and you won't need catchup TV.
Ditto. As it is now I don't have time to watch all that might be of interest to me.
You can watch Freesat+ online?!
Who wants to watch an epg online
Not much to confuse really, as Freesat was set up as an alternative for those that cannot get Freeview, so FV from space with in theory, a few less channels, but it does have more minor/low interest / shopping channels, Why are they surprised? Freeview is not subscription either, and they are similar
You clearly know very little about the platform and how success is measured. Comparing with Sky and Virgin Media is just laughable, and even the comparison with YouView isn't fair given the massive financial differences between them. If you want more, than you are just going to have to pay for it!
The premium service is the BBC & ITV, and with the other 3 channels they make better viewing than all the sky second rate viewing put together. When I had sky it took up less than 5% of my viewing.
Horses for courses, whilst we do watch the BBC, and even ITV sometimes, most of our viewing seems to be the Documentary channels that are part of the EE package on Sky, sadly Freesat has nothing to challenge Sky with on this front, the rest of FS, much like FV is just the main BBC/ITV/C5/C4 offerings and some shopping channels thrown in
Other than that we are reliant on encrypted channels changing their established business model to get anything else decent.
i dont see Freesat as a fall back service for those in Freeview Lite zones or with just plain poor Freeview reception. I think Freesat is now the better service to have, regardless. I would hate to go back to just having Freeview and all that means, reception wise - thats if we wanted to get all the channels, or make do with FreeviewLite.
If you know how to hack the Freesat box using the Tuning Menu then you can add other channels to your list that are FTV (Free-To-View) such as Pick TV+, etc, etc
Do you mean by using the any other sat manual tuner for 28,2