Freeview Category

Freeview HD launched in December 2009, but there was one big problem – you couldn’t buy a receiver. Fortunately, that changed this weekend, when the first Humax Freeview HD boxes started to appear in the wild. Yes, it’s now possible to get your hands on a Freeview HD set-top box – although HD is only [...]

Happy New Year to all of our FrequencyCast listeners! Show 47, the first show of 2010, has just been released for your listening pleasure. In this show, we discuss all that’s new with digital TV and technology. Here’s what we cover in this show: News Updates: Project Canvas, Tesco iPhone, iPlayer on Freesat, Freeview HD [...]

FrequencyCast UK Show 47 [ 30:40 ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

A new podcast update has just been released, keeping our listeners up-to-date with some hot TV news, including: Freeview HD lauches – where are the boxes? BT Vision releases a new PVR Two new HD channels join Sky’s lineup Freesat gets 4 new channels Plus your emails on WiFi Hotspots, TiVo and TV listings The [...]

FrequencyCast Update 16 Dec 2009 [ 14:29 ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

It’s the first of December and Show 46 of FrequencyCast, the UK’s TV and Tech podcast, has just been released for your listening pleasure. In this show, we discuss all that’s new with digital TV and technology. Here’s what we cover in this show: News Updates: Freeview HD about to launch, o2 Joggler changes, iPlayer [...]

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Freeview is celebrating its seventh birthday today. The service launched on the 30th of October 2002 as a joint venture between the BBC, Crown Castle and BSkyB. Freeview offered free-to-view TV after the collapse of ITVDigital, and OnDigital before that. Greg Dyke, then Director-General of the BBC, said: “Today is an important day in the [...]

iPhone users – you can now watch 11 Freeview channels live on your phone. The service from TVCatchup.com allows you to watch the following channels: BBC1, BBC2, BBC3, ITV1, ITV2, Channe 4, Five, Film 4, e4, More 4 and 4 Music. To watch, point your iPhone web browser to http://iphone.tvcatchup.com/ – No subscription, no sign-up, [...]

If you’re reading this on Wednesday the 30th of September 2009, today is Freeview Retune Day. If you get your digital TV from Freeview, you will need to get your Freeview box or TV set to re-scan its Freeview channel lineup, to make sure you get all of your channels. The changes that are being [...]

We’ve just released an audio update. Here’s what we cover: Quest Take 2, Freeview retune, ESPN latest, iTunes Chart, a Welsh apology and the best deals for your old mobile. Links from the show: ESPN help: http://www.radioandtelly.co.uk/espn.html Best deal for your old mobile: http://www.sellyouroldphone.co.uk iTunes Review: https://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZFinance.woa/wa/addUserReview?type=Podcast&id=142899029 Today’s update is a 10 minute mp3 file. [...]

FrequencyCast Update 12 August 2009 [ 10:43 ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

As we discussed in today’s podcast update, it’s now possible to get ESPN on a Freeview box or TV that has a suitable card slot (known as a CI slot). The CI slot accepts a CAM, which accepts a subscription card. If you were previously able to get Setanta Sports on Freeview, then you should [...]

FrequencyCast Update 12 August 2009 [ 10:43 ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

After spectacularly failing to launch on 14th of May 2009, it seems that Quest TV is to have another go at launching their free-to-view documentary channel on Freeview. According to a report in Broadcast Magazine, Quest TV will launch on Freeview on the 30th of September. More details on Quest TV and the failed launch [...]

This evening, ESPN America has started broadcastoing on Freeview channel 34, the slot taken by Setanta Sports until its collapse yesterday. It seems that ESPN America is being transmitted by Top Up TV, and anyone with a Top Up TV subscription can view ESPN for free though it’s not clear how long for). Users with [...]

This month, Ofcom announced details of the fourth service to be offering free-to-view HD content, when the new Freeview HD service goes live. Bids are in and the fourth slot has provisionally been awarded to Five. That makes the lineup unsurprisingly BBC, ITV, Channel 4 and Five. Five will be offering some of their fdaytime [...]

In 2008, a number of national DAB radio stations vanished, due to cost cutting measures. To fill the void left by speech station Oneword, a 20 minute loop of birdsong took to the air, delighting many and being a welcome and relaxing breath of fresh air. Yesterday, the 1st of June – Radio Birdsong was [...]

Show 40 of FrequencyCast, the UK’s TV and Tech podcast, has just been released. In our regular online radio show, we discuss all that’s new with digital TV and technology. Here’s what we cover in this show: News Updates: Plans for Freeview HD in doubt, all change for the charts, new content for Top Up, [...]

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As we’re hoping you know, FrequencyCast produces regular online radio shows (a.k.a. podcasts). Now and then, we release special audio “updates” to cover breaking stories, and so far there’s been a bunch of stories this month already. So, we’re just out of the studio with a 16 minute audio update looking at Quest‘s failure to launch, [...]

FrequencyCast Update 14 May 09 [ 16:41 ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

Show 39 of FrequencyCast, the UK’s TV and Tech podcast, has just been released. In our regular online radio show, we discuss all that’s new with digital TV and technology. Here’s what we cover in this show: News Updates: HD on iPlayer, concerns for canvass, plus 1 billion apps on iPhones Focus: Get more from [...]

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On the 20th of May 2009, there’ll be a couple of changes to Virgin 1′s service on Freeview. Firstly, Virgin 1 will go 24 hours a day (currently it’s only 12) And secondly, there’ll be a timeshifted “+1″ service – although Virgin 1 + 1 has an odd ring about it (1 and 1 makes [...]

We’ve been releasing FrequencyCast, the UK TV and Tech podcast, since 2006, and we’ve been hoping to make it into the list of Top Ten shows since we started. For the top ten, we rely on iTunes, which is the leading podcast distribution method. We’re listed in the ‘Tech News’ category, and we see our [...]

Regular listeners to our podcast will be well aware of the story featured on tonight’s Watchdog. In July and August, Freeview boxes around the UK started packing up. The reason? Older Freeview boxes can’t cope with the increasing number of channels, and when the boxes scan for new channels, they lock up, effectively trashing the [...]

The company behind the Discovery Channel has secured a slot on Freeview. Using content from the existing Discovery-branded channels, the new channel on Freeview apparently won’t carry the Discovery name, and will be free-to-view from early 2009. The slot on the Freeview network was put up for auction by SDN (owned by ITV) in June [...]