Technisat freesat HD HDFS72 Set Top Box

Details have emerged of the Technisat HD freesat receiver on the blog of What Satellite and Digital TV website.

The full review will be published in the What Satellite and Digital TV magazine on sale May 14, but they have released the following information from the full review:

“The casing is almost identical to Technisat’s Digicorder HD [...]

Project Canvas possible investigation?

According to the Guardian today Ofcom are reportedly considering setting up a competition investigation into Project Canvas which was set up to be an open technological platform for all content owners to bring catch up and on demand TV services for example BBC iPlayer via broadband to network equipped devices such as freesat which as part [...]

NHK World TV to join Freesat

Freesat have today announced that NHK World TV will be joining freesat Tuesday 21st April. NHK World TV provides English language news, analysis and culture from a Japanese and Asian perspective to over 80 countries around the globe. NHK World TV is the international channel of Japan’s national broadcaster NHK.

Emma Scott, Managing Director of Freesat [...]

BBC relaxes DRM on HD Broadcasts

With the forthcoming release of the new Panasonic PVR’s with additional Blu-ray drives the BBC has made changes to the way it enforces DRM (Digital Rights Management) on its High Definition broadcasts.

The new DRM which is encoded with the programme will now allow consumers to make one personal copy of a HD programme (after recording [...]

Shortage of freesat SD Digital Set Top Boxes

There is currently a shortage of freesat SD (Standard Definition) set top boxes at the moment, the only manufacture of SD boxes is by Harvard International plc (formerly the Alba Group plc) who badge the set top boxes as Goodmans, Bush and Grundig. There is no shortage of HD (High Definition) set top boxes or [...]

Panasonic PVR with Blu-ray freesat HD

Panasonic have this week officially announced the forthcoming DMR freesat+ HD recorders which will be available to buy from the 20th June this year.

The three models are:

DMR-BS850 High Definition Twin freesat Tuner 500 GB Hard Disc Drive and Blu-ray Disc Recorders
DMR-BS750 High Definition Twin freesat Tuner 250 GB Hard Disc Drive and Blu-ray Disc Recorders
DMR-XS350 [...]

Humax PVR £260.42

Just a quick note for anyone looking for the superb Humax HDR / PVR freesat+ HD recorder, Dixons have lowered the price to £260.42 delivered, this is the lowest price we have seen the Humax so far.

To go to the Dixons product page

To compare all Humax HDR prices

Panasonic and Toshiba Pick Up Awards

Panasonic and Toshiba Pick Up Awards

At the 2009 Home Cinema Choice Awards event held last week the Panasonic TX-37LZD81 picked up the award for best TV under 37 inches the TX-37LZD81 was up against the Hitachi UT32MH70, Panasonic TH-37PX80B, Philips 32PFL9603D.

The acclaimed Humax Foxsat-HDR picked up the award for Best Digital Recorder the Humax was [...]

Win a home cinema system

Voting is now open for “Viewers Choice: Freesat Channel or Service of the Year” for the new freesat Awards (see earlier post) 

All voters in this category will be entered into a prize draw to win a top of the range home cinema sound system.

Click here to vote and entry into the prize draw.

LG freesat HDTV LF770 Details

More details have been announced today by LG of their LF7700 series TV’s with freesat HD built in which is due to be available from April 2009.. This is LG’s first venture into the freesat market and brings competition to the established Panasonic freesat HDTV’s which launched in June 2008, the LF7700 series also contains [...]

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