More Freesat details emerge
We’re just weeks away from the launch of a new free-to-air service that promises a new way to get FTA channels - including new and existing HD channels. Receiver boxes should start appearing in retail outlets sometime next week and the service should start broadcasting soon after that on the same Astra 28E satellite that Sky uses (you can use your existing dish!).
This week some interesting news about the service has leaked out. The first pictures of the EPG and box of the Humax Freesat box were leaked on the Digital Spy forum and are believed to be genuine. The website also claims to have some technical specs on the box itself.
In other Freesat news; it is not beleived that five HD will be available at launch and even five itself is in doubt. This could be a major blow to both five and the freesat launch, but will no doubt be sorted within a few weeks.
I’ll keep you updated with any news I hear on Freesat and my review when I get my own Freesat setup.