New Channels on Freesat

[garrick]

The following channels are confirmed as coming to Freesat:


All ITV regions and additional FTA channels (including but not limited to, ITV2+1, Film Four+1, E4+1 and More4+1, Zone Horror, Zone Reality, Kix and BET as well as digital radio stations including Capital Radio, Virgin Radio and XFM) will be available late July 2008



_http://www.joinfreesat.co.uk/index.php/our-chat-with-freesat

Doe's that include the full bouquet of Capital and Virgin networks ??

 

[Analoguesat]

No idea garrick - you know as much about it as I do.

 

[garrick]

No idea garrick - you know as much about it as I do.

Thanks for letting us know

 

[johnruddock]

Alba have updated the software for their freesat receivers so fta channels can be scanned for.I'm still working out how to save them.:mad:

 

[thumper]

the channels are saved auto when you have scanned them , but you need to switch on the option to display non freesat channels , the manual tuning though does not work 100% i have the grundig hd and when you search for new channels you get the option to change the freq and polarity but not the 27500 and 22000 , as the reciever switches to 27500 automaticly which is a pain when you want 22000 for the itv channels.

 

[johnruddock]

Has anyone got any more news on the addition of new channels ?

 

[cjgall]

The join freesat site has reported a few new channels. _http://www.joinfreesat.co.uk/index.php/ten-more-channels-to-join-freesat

Channels included are:

Gala TV
Gems TV
Inspiration TV
Netplay TV
Pitch World
Russia Today
Shop On TV
TWC Fight
Zone Horror
Zone Reality

 

[PaulR]

Yesterday on Northwest Tonight they announced that 1NW would be available on Freesat as from today.

 

[johnruddock]

Since I got the BBC North West on ch101 I can only switch to it by entering 101 off the keypad buttons on the remote.If I try to use the up/down buttons say from 102 ie BBC2 it jumps down to 3152,one of the fta channels.101 also doesn't show up in the channel guide.Anyone else got this problem and whats the remedy ?

 

[thumper]

The adding of the new services itself does not work , i had bbc 1 london ( my region is bbc1 west ) today so i updated my box by fresh install and bingo the local bbc was there as well as my local itv and itv2+1 as well. so it looks like the best way is to update it yourself as it does not do it on its own, wonder also why cnn and sky news are not included as they are both free to air as well as luxe hd .

 

[thomas]

HiThumper , if you are on freesat, you should be getting all those chans that you mentioned = I recently set up mown system, with a Passion reciever and it loaded all the f t a ch's in - including the ones you mentioned, maybe you might to re-scan, sorry i can't say much more, i'm a bit of a novice myself. cheers Tom

 

[thumper]

the freesat software does not seem to be as good as the sky system for updates it seems to need manually updating to get all the channels , plus the hd hdmi does not work well on the grundig model the picture goes blank every now and then , i hope a bug in the software and not in the box

 

[Analoguesat]

various radio channels including NME radio should launch onto Freesat tomorrow.