Press release from freesat 27/07/09:
ON YOUR MARKS… GET SET… GO!
Introducing IAAF World Athletics Championship in HD on Freesat
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Reach for your running shoes and sprint to the sofa, because this year’s World Championships in Athletics is coming to Freesat in high definition and subscription free. From Saturday 15th to Sunday 23rd August, the 12th IAAF World [...]
Press release from freesat 27/07/09:
HIT THE RIGHT NOTES WITH THE PROMS ON BBC HD ON FREESAT
The symphonies, concertos, overtures and fugues of this year’s Proms will be better than ever this year with Freesat bringing viewers this unique summer event in glorious high definition on BBC HD. From the First Night of the Proms on [...]
Goodmans and Sagem have both announced freesat high definition digital TV recorders which will be available for Autumn this year, this will provide competition to Humax with their outstanding Humax PVR.
Goodmans have announced two PVR’s:
The Goodmans GFSDTR320HD is a 320GB hard drive PVR with twin freesat HD tuners which Argos have at £299.99 (hopefully this [...]
Sagem the French Set top box manufacture has added to its product line a High Definition freesat receiver. The new box DSI86HD has made its first appearance in the latest Argos catalogue which was released today Saturday 25th July.
Known Specifications:
Digitally interactive.
Digital text.
Digital Video Broadcasting (DVB) subtitles available.
Auto setup.
User controlled auto detection of new channels.
User controlled [...]
The recently released LG 32LF7700 32†Widescreen TV with freesat HD and Freeview built have now dropped below £500. With Dixons selling for £449.99 delivered.
When you consider an equivalent full HD 1080P TV with only Freeview built in would cost around this price the LG 32LF7700 with freesat HD represents outstanding value and you do [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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
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 [...]