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Freesat Free time
Balb0wa
04-09-2012
Looks good, is the smart new TV guide from freesat. It's available on the latest freesat+ boxes later this month. £279 from Humax

<free time> comes with BBC iPlayer and ITV Player as standard, with 4OD and Demand5 coming later this year. Movies on demand to follow.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rt3lM...=youtu.be&hd=1
walmesdan
04-09-2012
I've just bought a Humax Freesat+ box about 4 weeks ago. I did e-mail 'Freesat' asking when the new G2 boxes would be out (before buying)...their reply was still in the planning stage!!!!..looking like sometime next year 2013!!!..this was only 4 weeks ago.

Anybody want to buy a 4 week old Humax Freesat+ box ?? lol
Night Watchman
04-09-2012
See these articles from Freesat and JoinFreesat on this new facility for the G2 boxes:
(it will be available on selected new freesat+ boxes)

http://www.freesat.co.uk/freetime/

http://www.joinfreesat.co.uk/freesat...led-free-time/
Balb0wa
04-09-2012
I cant see why they cant put it on old freesat boxes , just looks like a new epg to me
Night Watchman
04-09-2012
And I don't see why they can't incorporate the catch-up facility (in a modified version of <freetime>) into normal G2 Freesat HD boxes either - even without the recording facility it would be an added extra.
Badvok
04-09-2012
Originally Posted by walmesdan:
“ I've just bought a Humax Freesat+ box about 4 weeks ago. I did e-mail 'Freesat' asking when the new G2 boxes would be out (before buying)...their reply was still in the planning stage!!!!..looking like sometime next year 2013!!!..this was only 4 weeks ago.

Anybody want to buy a 4 week old Humax Freesat+ box ?? lol ”

Don't worry, the first box is also made by Humax, and based on past experience with this company it will be at least a year until that box is stable and usable - probably about the same time as other manufacturers introduce their boxes
flemmo
04-09-2012
Shame. I was hoping it would be rolled out to all Freesat boxes, not just select new ones
grahamlthompson
04-09-2012
Originally Posted by flemmo:
“Shame. I was hoping it would be rolled out to all Freesat boxes, not just select new ones ”

Needs more processing power and probably uses this new broadcom chip,

http://www.broadcom.com/products/Sat...utions/BCM7346
flemmo
04-09-2012
I expected that to be the issue. Though it's odd that the original boxes can whizz around 1080i video and the iPlayer interface but not the new epg.
But I understand they have to concentrate on selling new products.
Can't complain. My Humax Foxsat HDR has been very solid. I'll be sticking with it for a good while yet.
grahamlthompson
04-09-2012
Originally Posted by flemmo:
“I expected that to be the issue. Though it's odd that the original boxes can whizz around 1080i video and the iPlayer interface but not the new epg.
But I understand they have to concentrate on selling new products.
Can't complain. My Humax Foxsat HDR has been very solid. I'll be sticking with it for a good while yet.”

I doubt very much you will see any difference in a 1280 x 720 epg overlay when much of the screen is displaying a small version of the current channel. What's the point of a full 1920 x 1080 if you have to downscale it to view the live content ?

As you say if you don't wan't the VOD services the Foxsat-hdr still has a lot going for it especially with the custom firmware. Give it a few weeks valid comparisons based on real world experience, not speculation will be possible.
Badvok
05-09-2012
Originally Posted by grahamlthompson:
“Needs more processing power and probably uses this new broadcom chip,

http://www.broadcom.com/products/Sat...utions/BCM7346”

I doubt it is about processing power, more about ROI. They'd get nothing back rolling this stuff out to existing hardware and it would cost them a fair bit to do so.
Although the HDR is a bit long-in-the-tooth technologically I suspect it could handle the new guide format.
I think the Foxsat-HDR has a 400Mhz ARM CPU based SoC (which considering I started out on 1Mhz processors seems quite powerful to me), this is slower than a RaspberryPi and slower than even the cheapest smartphones - amazing how quickly things move eh?
(Note: the main processor is not used for video decoding, that is all done in discrete logic.)
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