FREESAT OPENING SOON.

FREESAT OPENING SOON.

If our jungle drums are to be believed then Freesat will be rolling out properly this incoming
week starting as of the 18th of May.
This was the original date passed to us from our source many weeks ago and reported both here and in our multimedia forum so we shall soon see.
The guessing games have surfaced on many forums with reports of the 1st of may up until a few days ago when it seemed everybody gave up and although Freesat gave the 6th May it got started as a damp squib.
The rumour factory has been working overtime with Freesat but nothing could be more crazy with intelligent posters making suggestions a recall has been made on something that has never been made public, but like all good urban rumours no proof can be found so one assumes dirty tricks at play here. The new Freesat boxes have come under fire for being different in the sense that these new Freesat digital boxes have the nerve to be totally capable of looking after themselves with respect to auto updating and set up and forget features. We believe that Freesat digital boxes are designed for the viewer who has more to do than watch TV all day. We are delighted that nobody can complain about the truly excellent Freesat digital picture quality on boxes like the Grundig Gufsat or the Goodmans SD digital box or the excellent EPG's on Freesat digital boxes on the whole.
BBC reports suggest a shortage on boxes but some retailers will accept advanced orders but we believe this week may well see an upsurge in Freesat box availabilty.
Prices we think will stay quite stable for a while as promises of multimedia projects are thick on the ground and with knowledge of other European countries jumping on the Freesat bandwagon for their own countries we maybe a step closer to multi lingual programming, not forgetting the new Freesat digital boxes can get an over the air update at any time with the special architecture of the Freesat metadata.
Is it news to you ? then you read it here first!

UFO's IN WALES

SNIPPET;
Secret Ministry of Defence (MoD) files detailing sightings of Unidentified Flying Objects (UFOs) in Wales have been made public for the first time.
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ITALIAN FREESAT.

As we reported some months ago on this blog we suggested at that time
other European broadcasters may follow the lead of BBC/ITV with the
Freesat platform model, it looks as if we may have been correct.

Italian commercial network Mediaset has begun talks with public broadcaster RAI over plans to run a free digital satellite offer that would complement the existing DTT packages.

The Italian ‘freesat’ would use the Eutelsat Hot Bird neighbourhood at 13 degrees East where the two broadcasters channels have been relayed for many years. Both sets of channels, including RAI Uno, RAI Due, Rete 4 and Canale 5 are broadcast in the clear.

News of the talks follows the collapse of negotiations between Mediaset and Sky Italia over the sale of movie rights.

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Speaking at the Czech Association of Competitive Communications (CACC) conference in Prague last week, Martin Kubacki, MD, Astra CEE, said it was looking increasingly likely that the Polish public broadcaster TVP would launch a ‘Freesat-style’ DTH platform in Poland later this year.

Story courtesy of;

Julian Clover.

GOODMANS GFSAT100SD REMOTE DETAILS.

GOODMANS GFSAT 100HD REMOTE DETAILS.
Click on the graphic to get a clearer view.

GOODMANS GFSAT100SD TV LISTINGS.

Another possible view of the Goodmans GFsat 100SD EPG which we feel is well beyond the test for user friendly status.

GOODMANS GFSAT 100SD CHANNEL SELECTION.

Goodmans GFsat 100SD Freesat EPG showing the channel selection.
We especially like the way to check out the week ahead using the "yellow button" and the "blue button". Press yellow for the following 24 hours press it again for the following day and so on. Press blue to reverse this and again so intuitive.

GOODMANS GFSAT 100SD POSTAL CODE.

This graphic shows the postal code set up screen.
If any of these boxes could be faulted it is the postal code settings choice. The less dexterous will have problems.
The argument is there for those unable to use the postal code set up an engineer will set it for them but we feel although this menu is needed to check TV licence holders it is a worthless exercise as anybody wanting a Freesat box will give out false information anyway and simply pay cash in exactly the same way as they do at present for any item that requires personal information.

GOODMANS GFSAT 100SD MAIN MENU.

This graphic shows the Goodmans GFsat100SD main menu selection screen. Simple and intuitive.

GOODMANS GFSAT100SD REAR.

Goodmans GFSAT 100SD rear view which shows the LNB in and the LNB out feature which is very important to those who wish loop through for other satellite receivers.
Yes it works, we tested it with three different receivers. on loop through with out any problems and like the Grundig Gufsat the GOODMANS GFSAT 100SD took over as the master.

GOODMANS GFSAT100SD FREESAT RECEIVER.

This graphic shows the Goodmans GFsat100SD in all it's glory.
Sleak and silver with only one single control at the right. The switch controls; on and off, channel up and down, and volume control.