Freesat to have Iplayer.

insane200 · 8 Dec 2009 at 13:27

bbc have anounced that iplayer will be trialed on freesat from yesterday to a select few , and will hopefully have an open beta near xmas :cool:

itv player should also be availible.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/8378394.stm

Django x2 · 8 Dec 2009 at 13:28

nice

makes my Panny G10 an even better purchase. although I do have a HTPC with iplayer on it already

insane200 · 8 Dec 2009 at 13:30

Lucero said:
nice makes my Panny G10 an even better purchase. although I do have a HTPC with iplayer on it already

thats where i think its great as i dont have Broadband

JAMAL · 8 Dec 2009 at 18:43

insane200 said:
i dont have Broadband

No iplayer on freesat for you then, you need a broadband connection for it to work.

Django x2 · 8 Dec 2009 at 23:07

How? Most TVs have freesat built in to them. How would this work in such a situation if you had to have broadband

[TW]Fox · 8 Dec 2009 at 23:46

Lucero said:
How? Most TVs have freesat built in to them. How would this work in such a situation if you had to have broadband

Most TV's dont have freesat built into them at all, its comparatively rare to have a freesat receiver built into a television though its becoming more common. Are you confusing it with freeview?

Nymins · 9 Dec 2009 at 00:24

Lucero said:
How? Most TVs have freesat built in to them. How would this work in such a situation if you had to have broadband

iPlayer isn't streamed out of the sky from satellite, its downloaded over ethernet from the back of the TV connected to your router. Hence why there is an ethernet port on the back of all Freesat enabled TV's and set top boxes. Same reason why the Sky HD boxes have an ethernet port too. So that in the future when Sky do VOD, it will all be done through that rather than satellite.

Sky Anytime is a kind of on demand thing, but you can see if you have ever used it how bog standard it is due to the lack of bandwidth available to stream over satellite.

There isn't enough space for Freesat to be able to do it that way, unlike Virgin Media where its all done through the fibre optic.

Ev0 · 9 Dec 2009 at 00:35

Lucero said:
How? Most TVs have freesat built in to them. How would this work in such a situation if you had to have broadband

iirc the freesat part acts as the gui/client but it pulls the data over the data connection. I think.

[TW]Fox;15488491 said:
Most TV's dont have freesat built into them at all, its comparatively rare to have a freesat receiver built into a television though its becoming more common. Are you confusing it with freeview?

True but he does have a panasonic that's got both tuners built in, not all tvs are as good

yoyo50 · 9 Dec 2009 at 01:36

The sky vod should launch in early 2010, maybe then they have option to remove the anytime and more space for youself?

scooby555t · 9 Dec 2009 at 12:06

looking forward to this

insane200 · 9 Dec 2009 at 12:46

JAMAL said:
No iplayer on freesat for you then, you need a broadband connection for it to work.

pee'd on my fire then

Nymins · 9 Dec 2009 at 13:11

yoyo50 said:
The sky vod should launch in early 2010, maybe then they have option to remove the anytime and more space for youself?

Hopefully. Don't see why they don't give you the option now cause you can actually disable Anytime, but it still reserves the space for it even though its disabled!

Django x2 · 9 Dec 2009 at 13:16

[TW]Fox;15488491 said:
Most TV's dont have freesat built into them at all, its comparatively rare to have a freesat receiver built into a television though its becoming more common. Are you confusing it with freeview?

Eh? Virtually most Panasonic (read, good

) TVs have freesat ability and have done since 2006

Surely Panasonic and others will have to firmware update as the LAN port on the back of mine is purely for Service use

BennyC · 9 Dec 2009 at 13:24

I looked into Freesat shortly before it was launched and decided to wait a bit. Quite a few channels on there now it seems.

Could somebody tell me if channel reception is affected by signal? With Freeview at home there are certain channels I can't recieve. Would this be the same with Freesat?

Sorry for going OT.

Nymins · 9 Dec 2009 at 13:26

Freeview is done via aerial and Freesat is done via satellite. So in theory you should be able to get all channels via Freesat.

I can't get Freeview at all in my house, but can pick up every channel on Sky HD perfectly.

Darryn · 23 Dec 2009 at 01:12

Open Beta for this is now running. Im pretty impressed with it, picture when you select HQ is very watchable.

details in a few threads here

Caged · 23 Dec 2009 at 01:21

Lucero said:
Eh? Virtually most Panasonic (read, good ) TVs have freesat ability and have done since 2006

And there's a lot more TV brands than just Panasonic. Freesat integrated into TVs is very much the exception rather than the rule.

insane200 · 23 Dec 2009 at 14:11

il try this tonite on my dads humax box then

FrankJH · 23 Dec 2009 at 14:39

Lucero said:
Eh? Virtually most Panasonic (read, good ) TVs have freesat ability and have done since 2006

Surely Panasonic and others will have to firmware update as the LAN port on the back of mine is purely for Service use

Im getting really confusede, I could have sworn Freesat only launched last year!!

I know Panasonic have had sat tuners inbuilt for years, and maybe only the "branding" has changed in the last 12 months or so which is causing the confusion

On another note Pioneer Kuro's are (much) better than Pansonic and dont come with sat tuners of any kind

chipperhead · 24 Dec 2009 at 10:16

Just tried iplayer through my Humax pvr, picture quality on HQ is more than acceptable.
To access it go to a bbc channel, press the red button and type in 5483.