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A satellite minidish This is a list of the free-to-air channels that are currently available via satellite from SES Astra satellites ( Astra 2E / 2F / 2G ) at orbital position 28.2 °E , serving Ireland and the United Kingdom.
Important services from Freeview include its free-to-air channels with an enhanced EPG (electronic program guide) across all channels. Freeview also certifies televisions, set-top boxes and personal video recorders (PVR) which meet its standards. The Freeview brand was launched in November 2008 with teaser commercials promising 15 channels in 2009.
Electra at the time developed an IPTV platform called Trove which brought media services to the TV screen through Tesco-branded Freeview set top boxes. Electra believes that "the proposed vision, shareholder structure and aims of YouView are anti-competitive and significantly damage the UK interactive TV market".
Freeview HD Recorder (formerly Freeview+, originally named Freeview Playback [65]) is the marketing name for Freeview-capable digital video recorders with some enhancements over the original Freeview. All recorders are required to include the following features in addition to standard Freeview: [66] At least eight-day electronic programme guide ...
Freeview will be open to other free-to-air broadcasters if they want to join. According to Kordia there is space for approximately only 20 channels on the two satellite transponders that Freeview leases as of 2011. However at 22.5 MBd with a FEC of 3/4 one 23 MHz frequency can only accommodate either six SD 4:3 H.262 QPSK channels or four HD 16 ...
In the UK, digital video recorders are often referred to as "plus boxes" (such as BSKYB's Sky+ and Virgin Media's V+ which integrates an HD capability, and the subscription free Freesat+ and Freeview+). Freeview+ have been around in the UK since the late 2000s, although the platform's first DVR, the Pace Twin, dates to 2002. [16]
A Viewsat Xtreme FTA receiver. A free-to-air or FTA Receiver is a satellite television receiver designed to receive unencrypted broadcasts. Modern decoders are typically compliant with the MPEG-4/DVB-S2 standard and formerly the MPEG-2/DVB-S standard, while older FTA receivers relied on analog satellite transmissions which have declined rapidly in recent years.
Freeview (UK), a digital terrestrial television platform in the United Kingdom Freeviewing is viewing a stereoscopic image with the eyes without using a viewer Free preview , the limited-term unencrypted distribution of a pay television service's programming to subscribers of a multichannel television provider