Archive for April, 2007

More freeview articles in today’s Weekend Herald

April 28th, 2007

Three articles on freeview from this weekend’s Herald are available on their website ‘Future TV’ angers viewers The Freeview revolution Set-top box firms launch price war for Freeview dollar It would appear that the switch to wide-screen by TV3 and C4 has provoked a negative reaction from a number of consumers. Time will tell if [...]

TV 3 and C4 arrive early on freeview

April 24th, 2007

Its a week before the official launch and we are very pleased to announce that TV 3 and C4 have just started transmitting on the second freeview satellite transponder of 12456 H. As well as a reasonably high bit rate 16:9 picture they are using a higher audio bit rate of 256K compared with 192K for [...]

freeview website launched

April 23rd, 2007

We finally get to see some official information on the pending freeview launch on May 2nd thanks to the arrival of the official website. As well as service details it includes information on the separate terrestrial launch in 2008. Until then there will be a DTH (satellite) service that will cover the whole of New [...]