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The YouView service was developed as an open platform to combine free-to-air digital terrestrial television (DTT) channels from Freeview using an aerial connection, with TV on demand ("catch-up TV") services using a broadband internet connection, without any subscription.
Most Freeview services make use of the DVB-T standard, which dates back to 1997, and only a few high-definition channels broadcast using the more efficient and newer DVB-T2 standard. [ 6 ] [ 7 ] Despite the creation of Freely, the government has stated that it is committed to the Freeview digital terrestrial platform until at least 2034.
The free-to-view system contrasts with free-to-air (FTA), in which signals are transmitted in the clear, without encryption, and can be received by anyone with a suitable receiving dish antenna and DVB-compliant receiver (although these services can include proprietary encrypted data services such as an EPG that is only available to reception equipment made for, or authorised by, the FTA ...
Xumo: Watch other streaming services. I had been using SmartTV (and before that, Amazon Fire Stick; and before that, Roku) to watch streaming services, but with Xumo, you won’t need those.
The Freeview service underwent a major upgrade on 30 September 2009, which required 18 million households to retune their Freeview receiving equipment. [9] The changes, meant to ensure proper reception of Channel 5, led to several thousand complaints from people who lost channels (notably ITV3 and ITV4) as a result of retuning their equipment.
Freeview uses the DVB-S and DVB-T standards on government-provided spectrum. Additionally, an IPTV service is provided via the Freeview Streaming TV app, available on a range of smart TVs and Android TV devices. Freeview was launched in May 2007, preparing for analogue switch-off, which began on 30 September 2012 and was completed on 1 December ...
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
Freeview high viewership nationwide channels Channel number DVB name(s) Owner/parent company Launch H.222. Transport Availability Terrestrial Satellite DVB IPTV; Freeview [2] Sky [3] DVB 64-QAM Freeview Sky; 1 1 TVNZ 1: TVNZ (govt.) 1 June 1960 TVNZ 1080i: 576i: 1080i: Live stream and on-demand HD New Zealand's first television channel.