Freeview Playback

"Freeview Playback products from Humax, Sony and TVonics will be available
from retailers including Comet, John Lewis, Argos and Tesco.
Alba, LG and Sharp, amongst others, will also introduce Freeview Playback
digital TV recorders later this year."


http://tinyurl.com/3dfsb6

In message , Ivan
wrote
"Freeview Playback products from Humax, Sony and TVonics will be available
from retailers including Comet, John Lewis, Argos and Tesco.
Alba, LG and Sharp, amongst others, will also introduce Freeview Playback
digital TV recorders later this year."


http://tinyurl.com/3dfsb6


What's the difference between "Freeview Playback" and the facilities
already supported on all of the different brands of Freeview PVRs
currently on sale - including those from Humax, Sony and TVonics?

It looks like a b******t branding exercise to me.

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Alan
news2006 {at} amac {dot} f2s {dot} com

Alan wrote:
|| In message , Ivan
|| wrote
||| "Freeview Playback products from Humax, Sony and TVonics will be
||| available from retailers including Comet, John Lewis, Argos and
||| Tesco.
||| Alba, LG and Sharp, amongst others, will also introduce Freeview
||| Playback digital TV recorders later this year."
|||
|||
||| http://tinyurl.com/3dfsb6
|||
||
|| What's the difference between "Freeview Playback" and the facilities
|| already supported on all of the different brands of Freeview PVRs
|| currently on sale - including those from Humax, Sony and TVonics?
||
|| It looks like a b******t branding exercise to me.


To be honest I don't exactly know, however I would 'hazard a guess' that
it's an attempt at some form of software standardisation, as with Sky.


||
|| --
|| Alan
|| news2006 {at} amac {dot} f2s {dot} com

Ivan wrote:
|| Alan wrote:
|||| In message , Ivan
|||| wrote
||||| "Freeview Playback products from Humax, Sony and TVonics will be
||||| available from retailers including Comet, John Lewis, Argos and
||||| Tesco.
||||| Alba, LG and Sharp, amongst others, will also introduce Freeview
||||| Playback digital TV recorders later this year."
|||||
|||||
||||| http://tinyurl.com/3dfsb6
|||||
||||
|||| What's the difference between "Freeview Playback" and the
|||| facilities already supported on all of the different brands of
|||| Freeview PVRs currently on sale - including those from Humax, Sony
|||| and TVonics?
||||
|||| It looks like a b******t branding exercise to me.
||
||
|| To be honest I don't exactly know, however I would 'hazard a guess'
|| that it's an attempt at some form of software standardisation, as
|| with Sky.
||
||

A quick google got me this, the bit which says "and will conform to certain
standards" appears to indicate that my 'guess' was correct.

http://www.pvruk.co.uk/freeview_playback.cfm

"Freeview Playback".... Freeview, and the DTG group, are working towards a
"Freeview Playback" branded range of Digital TV Recorders (DTR), which can
be promoted as a group and will conform to certain standards.






||||
|||| --
|||| Alan
|||| news2006 {at} amac {dot} f2s {dot} com

"Ivan" wrote in message
...
Alan wrote:
|| In message , Ivan
|| wrote
||| "Freeview Playback products from Humax, Sony and TVonics will be
||| available from retailers including Comet, John Lewis, Argos and
||| Tesco.
||| Alba, LG and Sharp, amongst others, will also introduce Freeview
||| Playback digital TV recorders later this year."
|||
|||
||| http://tinyurl.com/3dfsb6
|||
||
|| What's the difference between "Freeview Playback" and the facilities
|| already supported on all of the different brands of Freeview PVRs
|| currently on sale - including those from Humax, Sony and TVonics?
||
|| It looks like a b******t branding exercise to me.


To be honest I don't exactly know, however I would 'hazard a guess' that
it's an attempt at some form of software standardisation, as with Sky.

With TUTP and the Cable Cos having their own boxes there
would seem to be a very large number of consumers who
think that these boxes can do something that their video
could not.

Unless you want to lose market share, a broadcaster would
seem to have to offer such a product. Hopefully doing so
won't remove other products from the market for those
of use who aren't incapable of deciding what to what for
ourselves.

tim

In message , Ivan
wrote


"Freeview Playback".... Freeview, and the DTG group, are working towards a
"Freeview Playback" branded range of Digital TV Recorders (DTR), which can
be promoted as a group and will conform to certain standards.

So its no different from what's already in the marketplace.



--
Alan
news2006 {at} amac {dot} f2s {dot} com

tim..... wrote:
|| "Ivan" wrote in message
|| ...
||| Alan wrote:
||||| In message , Ivan
||||| wrote
|||||| "Freeview Playback products from Humax, Sony and TVonics will be
|||||| available from retailers including Comet, John Lewis, Argos and
|||||| Tesco.
|||||| Alba, LG and Sharp, amongst others, will also introduce Freeview
|||||| Playback digital TV recorders later this year."
||||||
||||||
|||||| http://tinyurl.com/3dfsb6
||||||
|||||
||||| What's the difference between "Freeview Playback" and the
||||| facilities already supported on all of the different brands of
||||| Freeview PVRs currently on sale - including those from Humax,
||||| Sony and TVonics?
|||||
||||| It looks like a b******t branding exercise to me.
|||
|||
||| To be honest I don't exactly know, however I would 'hazard a guess'
||| that it's an attempt at some form of software standardisation, as
||| with Sky.
||
|| With TUTP and the Cable Cos having their own boxes there
|| would seem to be a very large number of consumers who
|| think that these boxes can do something that their video
|| could not.
||
|| Unless you want to lose market share, a broadcaster would
|| seem to have to offer such a product. Hopefully doing so
|| won't remove other products from the market for those
|| of use who aren't incapable of deciding what to what for
|| ourselves.
||

I tend to find that there are many people who desperately cling on to
ancient VCRs and are willing to pay what ever it costs to have them
repaired, simply because they understand how to operate them and set up
timed recordings.

Only last week someone gave me a brand-new Philips VCR, because no matter
how many times they went through the instruction manual they just couldn't
grasp how to operate it, so eventually gave up in despair.

As you rightly say, there are many people who would welcome some sort of
standardisation in operational features and no doubt Sky was shrewd enough
to realise this when they originally stipulated to various manufacturers
that the specifications of their receivers and remotes must be identical.



|| tim

In article ,
Alan wrote:

So its no different from what's already in the marketplace.

IIRC, the spec included some kind of series link and PDC-style features
which would certainly be an improvement on what is currently available.

In message , Chris Leuty
wrote
In article ,
Alan wrote:

So its no different from what's already in the marketplace.

IIRC, the spec included some kind of series link and PDC-style features
which would certainly be an improvement on what is currently available.

But that is only on trial at this current time, by the BBC, and I would
expect most of the current PVRs can be upgraded to accept this (new)
features.



--
Alan
news2006 {at} amac {dot} f2s {dot} com

"Ivan" wrote in message
...
tim..... wrote:
|| "Ivan" wrote in message
|| ...
||| Alan wrote:
||||| In message , Ivan
||||| wrote
|||||| "Freeview Playback products from Humax, Sony and TVonics will be
|||||| available from retailers including Comet, John Lewis, Argos and
|||||| Tesco.
|||||| Alba, LG and Sharp, amongst others, will also introduce Freeview
|||||| Playback digital TV recorders later this year."
||||||
||||||
|||||| http://tinyurl.com/3dfsb6
||||||
|||||
||||| What's the difference between "Freeview Playback" and the
||||| facilities already supported on all of the different brands of
||||| Freeview PVRs currently on sale - including those from Humax,
||||| Sony and TVonics?
|||||
||||| It looks like a b******t branding exercise to me.
|||
|||
||| To be honest I don't exactly know, however I would 'hazard a guess'
||| that it's an attempt at some form of software standardisation, as
||| with Sky.
||
|| With TUTP and the Cable Cos having their own boxes there
|| would seem to be a very large number of consumers who
|| think that these boxes can do something that their video
|| could not.
||
|| Unless you want to lose market share, a broadcaster would
|| seem to have to offer such a product. Hopefully doing so
|| won't remove other products from the market for those
|| of use who aren't incapable of deciding what to what for
|| ourselves.
||

I tend to find that there are many people who desperately cling on to
ancient VCRs and are willing to pay what ever it costs to have them
repaired, simply because they understand how to operate them and set up
timed recordings.

Only last week someone gave me a brand-new Philips VCR, because no matter
how many times they went through the instruction manual they just couldn't
grasp how to operate it, so eventually gave up in despair.

As you rightly say, there are many people who would welcome some sort of
standardisation in operational features and no doubt Sky was shrewd enough
to realise this when they originally stipulated to various manufacturers
that the specifications of their receivers and remotes must be identical.



What about the quality and sensitivity of the tuners and the RAMDACs. Is
this Feeview Playback standard the equivalent of VHS HQ Hi-Fi Stereo?