Humax has joined Pace in showing off a Freeview HD receiver prototype at the IBC broadcast industry Expo in Amsterdam. The box, which supports both MPEG-2 and MPEG-4 H.264 decoding, will be able to record TV shows to an external drive via USB as well as stream content from other networked DLNA-compliant devices.
Humax's Graham North told What Satellite and Digital TV magazine that the receiver would launch in the UK early 2010, adding that it would be followed in the Summer by a PVR edition. Pricing will be comparable to Humax’s FreeSat receiver products.
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Nice idea but without a
Alan Smithee (not verified) - 14 September 2009 - 2:24pmNice idea but without a built in hard disk and not being a PVR (so no Pause or Rewind TV I imagine) it will have limited appeal.
Bring on the Freeview HD PVRs! That's what we all really want. Summer 2010 seems like a long time to wait but it will probably take that long (at least) before a decent amount of people can actually pick it up.
Nice idea but without a
Billyboy (not verified) - 8 November 2009 - 4:12pmObviously Smithee does not live in the Granada area where we will have Freeview HD from December .......... he may be willing to wait till the rest of the country are linked up but what do we, who could receive it, do in the meantime. The timing of go live and hardware to support it seems badly out of line.
From this armchair the whole freesat, freeview, freeview HD, Sky freesat, et al, looks just like a disorganised, expensive mess.