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When will we get a product that runs quicker than a snail? It’s 2018. Come on Humax.
deej78 – 29 minutes ago »
When will we get a product that runs quicker than a snail? It’s 2018. Come on Humax.
Regarding Freesat satellite products you are not as they have lost the contract for the G3 boxes. Freeview? Who knows.
With all the talk about Freeview being phased out completely either more quickly or more slowly than various interested parties might like then could well be the Freeview box market remains moribund and what we have got now is all we will ever have.
gomezz – 1 minute ago »
With all the talk about Freeview being phased out completely
What’s that all about? To make room for more bloody mobile phones, I’ll be bound.
gomezz – 2 hours ago »
With all the talk about Freeview being phased out completely either more quickly or more slowly than various interested parties might like then could well be the Freeview box market remains moribund and what we have got now is all we will ever have.
Does anyone know why Freeview would be phased out? I find that baffling as I’ve heard so many complaints about Youview, mainly the fact it seems to cut the ends off recordings a lot and is slow to operate. Hopefully Freeview will stay around for a long time to come.
I agree ‘Freeview’ generally works very well, the problem is that it is very expensive to maintain all those transmitters. To the “bean counters” internet TV is very attractive.
fedman1 – 2 hours ago »
I agree ‘Freeview’ generally works very well, the problem is that it is very expensive to maintain all those transmitters. To the “bean counters” internet TV is very attractive.
Satellite is much, much, cheaper. Internet may be better in coming years but not now.
I certainly agree that satellite long term running costs will be much cheaper than for terrestrial. However the initial cost of getting the satellite into orbit must be far higher than replacing a transmitter / antenna arangement.
I use a combination of both the above, plus internet for ‘catch up’. Being a bit long in the tooth, and given the choice I still prefer RF to landline, but accept that internet / cable will become the norm.
fedman1 – 1 minute ago »
I certainly agree that satellite long term running costs will be much cheaper than for terrestrial. However the initial cost of getting the satellite into orbit must be far higher than replacing a transmitter / antenna arangement.
I use a combination of both the above, plus internet for ‘catch up’. Being a bit long in the tooth, and given the choice I still prefer RF to landline, but accept that internet / cable will become the norm.
One satellite will basically provide cover for the whole UK with just one site to upload the programmes. Add more at the same location allows hundreds of channels to be transmitted.
Compare this to the hundreds of terrestrial sites and the infrastructure to deliver content to your local transmitter and the energy costs involved. The power required to power a communication satellite is essentially free from solar cells. SES Astra own and maintain the fleet at 28.2E. Broadcasters rent transponder space from SES Astra. Even quite small broadcasters can afford to rent transponders. Freesat rent a single transponder to support the two Freesat epg’s.
A failure of a ground based transmitter like the Emley moor transmitter means the loss of it for months. Satellite operators can move satellites to provide back up for a failure at a specific orbital point using the small boosters required to maintain the orbital location and to stop satellites at the same nominal location like 28.2E from hitting each other.
Thanks Graham, your case is well made for satellite transmission compared to terrestrial.
Satellite reception can be affected by some weather conditions as can DTT / Freeview but very unusual for both to be affected at the same time. By a combination of luck and planning I have both plus internet television so got all bases covered.
I’ll be very sad to see Freeview go.
As for new products – the FVP-5000T is a truly wonderful machine.
Every day it faultlessly records 20 or more programs, never missing or messing up a single recording – even when recording four programs simultaneously.
If Humax would only only release an adequately resourced version to cure the FVP-5000T’s extreme sluggishness they could name their own price so far as I’m concerned.
Marius – 7 hours ago »
I’ll be very sad to see Freeview go.
Go where? I believe the news of its demise to be somewhat premature. I expect to see it running for the foreseeable future e.g. the next decade.
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