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

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

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/

I cant see why they cant put it on old freesat boxes , just looks like a new epg to me

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.

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

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

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.

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.)