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Quote:Digital UK – the body supports the UK’s terrestrial TV service and its viewers – and DTT platform Freeview have announced that Panasonic will be the first manufacturer to launch TVs featuring the Freeview Play connected TV service. The news follows the recent announcement of Freeview Play as the brand for the service as part of a major Freeview rebrand in preparation for the launch of the new TV offer.
Panasonic will make Freeview Play available in its new 2015 line-up of VIERA TVs. Channel 5’s Demand 5 service will also join the platform – completing the launch line-up of catch-up players alongside BBC iPlayer, ITV Player and 4oD.
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Panasonic plans to offer Freeview Play recorders at a later date. Multi-brand manufacturer Vestel will follow with a range of Freeview Play products.
Howling has refuted suggestions that Freeview Play risks losing market advantage to on-demand platform YouView, with which it shares common investors, such as the BBC and ITV, with Sony announcing a summer 2015 launch of YouView on its range of 2015 BRAVIA TVs.
No mention of Freetime.
Am I right to think that Freeview Play is to Freeview as Freetime is to Freesat?
More or less, although the specs for Freeview Play haven’t yet been published so it’s not certain exactly what it’s going to include. The core specification is due to be published this spring.
Any idea how this is going to affect Freetime on Freeview?
I can’t see Arqiva agreeing to share the Freeview tuners in Viera sets with Freetime. Freetime may stay for the satellite tuners. Or not.
I’m not optimistic, personally.
Great, I’ve just bought two Panasonic tellies with Freetime built in. How many more changes are we going to have to suffer.
Edit: I don’t know the politics of all this but as Freetime is delivered via the internet hopefully it will continue to work.
Quite a few, I’d say. Freesat
sackedaccepted the resignation of Emma Scott, who had ideas and ambition for the platform, and replaced her with a beancounter. Not a good sign.Edit: I don’t think there’s any danger of existing Freetime units ceasing to function. I’m only speculating about future implementations.
I was reading an interview with Emma Scott yesterday from 2014, she was saying she expected Freetime on Freeview to be around for quite a while, I didn’t realise she’d been
sackedresigned. Perhaps I won’t scrap my CRT telly after all.Biggles – 1 minute ago »
I was reading an interview with Emma Scott yesterday from 2014, she was saying she expected Freetime on Freeview to be around for quite a while, I didn’t realise she’d been sacked. Perhaps I won’t scrap my CRT telly after all.
Resigned, I should have said. In her leaving statement she said “Creating a successful new TV platform has been an exhilarating journey but it is now time for me to seek new challenges in the digital media industries.” I believe she’s now working for the publishers of the Beano.
What a waste. I hope Freetime continues on Freeview, the second telly hasn’t even been delivered yet.
I’ve just read this >http://www.dtg.org.uk/news/news.php?id=5347
Second paragraph states:
“Freeview’s new look comes ahead of a busy year which will see the publication of the new DTG D-Book 8 core specification for digital terrestrial TV this spring.”
Looks like Freesat with it’s Freetime will be left alone.
And general feeling I have from this news letter, that they (freeview) are responding to Youview’s advance in the market, with their own new look and services, as in here:
“The D-Book8 DTT Interoperability specification will lay the technical bedrock for a robust hybrid service as it evolves beyond traditional broadcast TV.
Quote:Looks like Freesat with it’s Freetime will be left aloneThe question was about whether Freetime would be able to maintain its shaky toehold on Freeview. Which looks doubtful.
Quote:And general feeling I have from this news letter, that they (freeview) are responding to Youview’s advance in the market, with their own new look and services, as in here:
“The D-Book8 DTT Interoperability specification will lay the technical bedrock for a robust hybrid service as it evolves beyond traditional broadcast TV.
The YouView Consortium, which includes the owners of Freeview, nearly imploded last year as it became clear that the YouView project, which was supposed to save PBS broadcasting, was mainly serving the needs of the two ISP shareholders, BT and TalkTalk. The conflict was resolved by the disgruntled partners withdrawing most of their funding from YouView, to put the money behind the development of their own IPTV project – viz., Freeview Connect, now rechristened Freeview Play.
JamesB – 2 hours ago »
Quote:Looks like Freesat with it’s Freetime will be left aloneThe question was about whether Freetime would be able to maintain its shaky toehold on Freeview. Which looks doubtful.
Quote:And general feeling I have from this news letter, that they (freeview) are responding to Youview’s advance in the market, with their own new look and services, as in here:
“The D-Book8 DTT Interoperability specification will lay the technical bedrock for a robust hybrid service as it evolves beyond traditional broadcast TV.
The YouView Consortium, which includes the owners of Freeview, nearly imploded last year as it became clear that the YouView project, which was supposed to save PBS broadcasting, was mainly serving the needs of the two ISP shareholders, BT and TalkTalk. The conflict was resolved by the disgruntled partners withdrawing most of their funding from YouView, to put the money behind the development of their own IPTV project – viz., Freeview Connect, now rechristened Freeview Play.
So basically Youview became the de-facto vehicle for IP subscriber TV models, which I think most people knew but no one wanted to come right out and say so.
Media journalists said so, loud and clear. See for instance http://www.theguardian.com/media/media-blog/2013/may/12/youview-freeview-bbc
Eventually the BBC Trust also said so, though less directly. See http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/bbctrust/assets/files/pdf/review_report_research/vfm/distribution.pdf
Project Canvas/YouView has been a struggle for all concerned, and has turned out very differently from the original ideas. But it’s there, and it works, and without BT’s and TalkTalk’s freebies that just wouldn’t have been the case. Hindsight, of course.
JamesB – 2 hours ago »
Quote:Looks like Freesat with it’s Freetime will be left aloneThe question was about whether Freetime would be able to maintain its shaky toehold on Freeview. Which looks doubtful.
You would think Panasonic would have some influence for keeping Freetime working on Freeview as many of their current Freeview TVs have Freetime built in. Panasonic are going to have a lot of annoyed customers (like me) if the Freetime on TVs just purchased stops working.
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