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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. [8]
These boxes also allow access to digital terrestrial television (DTT) signals using an additional aerial to watch Freeview channels. Originally all its channels and content were available on the TalkTalk Player without any EPG channel numbers. On 7 August 2013, the channels became available on the YouView EPG, and were re-numbered in 2015.
In June 2018 it was announced that Amazon Prime Video would be available through BT TV, [34] followed by Now TV in April 2020. [35] In 2022, BT TV kicked off the transition of going fully IPTV with its aerial-based Freeview channels starting to be offered via broadband, which is called "Internet Mode" on the new set-top boxes.
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 ...
The Now TV Smart Box ("Smart Box with Freeview"), coloured black with a blue logo, was launched exclusively in the UK in July 2016. It includes access to Freeview channels through an aerial, via an internal DTT tuner that allows the user to pause (for up to 30 minutes) and rewind live TV.
Freeview is the only DTT service since Top Up TV closed in 2013. The digital broadcasting technology adopted in the UK is the DVB-T system (Digital Video Broadcasting – Terrestrial) carrying compressed digital audio, video and other data in a combined transport stream, using COFDM Tooltip Orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing modulation ...
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