FREELY. Live TV over broadband 2024
Discussion
Ham_and_Jam said:
PF62 said:
Pointing a camera at a bucket of s
t and streaming that would replicate the BBC, ITV, C4 and C5 terrestial TV experience most evenings.
Not a fan?t and streaming that would replicate the BBC, ITV, C4 and C5 terrestial TV experience most evenings.The BBC most evenings is just scraping the barrel with some cheap reality show rubbish or soaps, and even BBC 4 which used to be interesting is now just a repeats channel.
ITV has always been fairly lowbrow but it used to have some decent drama series - but those are incredibly rare now.
C4 seems to aiming more for the 'shock show' than anything sensible, and the only decent shows it has it doesn't actually broadcast but are in the 'Walter Presents' strand on their catch up service.
C5 is mostly fluff but does actually seem to try to show something decent occasionally.
I would far sooner construct my own schedule of things worth watching than the dross BBC, ITV, C4 and C5 broadcast.
lrdisco said:
PF62 said:
Pointing a camera at a bucket of st and streaming that would replicate the BBC, ITV, C4 and C5 terrestial TV experience most evenings.
Why put such immature childish comments out there?t and streaming that would replicate the BBC, ITV, C4 and C5 terrestial TV experience most evenings.It says so much about you as a person.
I assume you can see that.
We bought our house 3 years ago and at the time I didn't realise it didn't have a TV aerial. The house had been completed renovated so the last thing I wanted to do was rip the house a part to run an aerial cable from the room to the front room.
So for the last 3 years all TV I have watched has been through streaming apps, the one benefit of this is I watch a lot less television now.
I am looking forward to this, but whenever I am visiting someone who has Sky or Freeview I think "Still nothing worth watching"
But I will be getting this as soon as it is released.
So for the last 3 years all TV I have watched has been through streaming apps, the one benefit of this is I watch a lot less television now.
I am looking forward to this, but whenever I am visiting someone who has Sky or Freeview I think "Still nothing worth watching"
But I will be getting this as soon as it is released.
https://www.bbc.com/mediacentre/2024/freely-launch...
Looks initially like a trip to Argos for a HiSense TV then more TV manufacturers to come on board later this year I imagine . . .
Looks initially like a trip to Argos for a HiSense TV then more TV manufacturers to come on board later this year I imagine . . .
ajprice said:
Hopefully all channels would be some form of HD, and not what looks like sub SD potato vision you get with some channels like ITV4, Dave, Legend etc.
I only found out lastnight that ITV X through the Fire TV live TV section shows the channels in HD, instead of watching on potatovision Freeview channels, so I happily watched the MotoGP highlights lastnight and it wasn't coloured blobs 
.Digger said:
https://www.bbc.com/mediacentre/2024/freely-launch...
Looks initially like a trip to Argos for a HiSense TV then more TV manufacturers to come on board later this year I imagine . . .
Bit crap it's not just an app. Almost all modern smart tv's have android/fire tv built in. All have controllers that would work, so why do it through dedicated tv's ?Looks initially like a trip to Argos for a HiSense TV then more TV manufacturers to come on board later this year I imagine . . .
There will be several issues when Freely does come on line. You'll have to sign up & log in; the main reason for building the platform is to gather subscriber data for the advertisers - ITV & C4 already do this. There will be no recording feature so programme retention is at the whim of the broadcasters but the main issue will be no fast forwarding through the adverts - a casualty of the no recording function.
Be careful what you wish for.
Be careful what you wish for.
Mr Pointy said:
There will be several issues when Freely does come on line. You'll have to sign up & log in; the main reason for building the platform is to gather subscriber data for the advertisers - ITV & C4 already do this. There will be no recording feature so programme retention is at the whim of the broadcasters but the main issue will be no fast forwarding through the adverts - a casualty of the no recording function.
Be careful what you wish for.
Fast forward is a feature they are looking at in for the future apparently.Be careful what you wish for.
Logging in doesn’t bother me, all online stuff requires this. If its that much of an issue, just create a dedicated user / email for it.
Ham_and_Jam said:
Mr Pointy said:
There will be several issues when Freely does come on line. You'll have to sign up & log in; the main reason for building the platform is to gather subscriber data for the advertisers - ITV & C4 already do this. There will be no recording feature so programme retention is at the whim of the broadcasters but the main issue will be no fast forwarding through the adverts - a casualty of the no recording function.
Be careful what you wish for.
Fast forward is a feature they are looking at in for the future apparently.Be careful what you wish for.
Logging in doesn’t bother me, all online stuff requires this. If its that much of an issue, just create a dedicated user / email for it.
It will be interesting to see if they turn off the terrestrial transmitters - I belive the TV frequencies were not given up recently.
Mr Pointy said:
I agree about the logging in but the key for me will be how responsive the player is when shuttling & searching. I record anything I watch that has adverts & have FF them with a six button presses.
It will be interesting to see if they turn off the terrestrial transmitters - I belive the TV frequencies were not given up recently.
Terrestrial is here for quite some time yet, but will become obsolete at some point.It will be interesting to see if they turn off the terrestrial transmitters - I belive the TV frequencies were not given up recently.
I’m with you on the record everything though, simply for avoiding adverts with the FF. I use the Manhattan PVR, great bit of kit. They were touting Freely with the launch of their new PVR - T4R, but see it’s gone from their site now. Presumably because HiSense paid a load of wonga to Freely to get exclusivity.
Considering you still have to pay for broadband to stream I don't see the point. For 45 quid/month with EE you can get broadband plus TV with a Youview Pro box (records up to 600 hours) that you can stream or use an aerial with. 2 extra boxes for free multiroom. Everything on the same EPG so no apps required unless you want to use them. 4K UHD with Atmos is an extra 6 quid if you want it. Seems a no brainer for me.
Long story short: I'm with BT at the moment and have been in dispute with them for about 2 months as there was some glitch (due to their changeover from BT TV to EE TV that wouldn't allow them to give me "Big Sport" which is all TNT sports plus all Sky sports channels so I wouldn't have to use the poxy Now TV app. They finally managed to sort it but they also agreed I could terminate my BT contract (not up until the end of October) without penalty.
Today I had to ring them as last week for some reason I couldn't get any of the Sky sports channels in HD or their Main Event channel in UHD
So I double checked they would honor their word and let me cancel - yep all sorted so within 2 weeks I'll be getting all new equipment (as a new customer would including the multi room boxes) My bill will be dropped from an eye watering £133/month to £80/month which is nice
edit: the early contract exit would have been £400 quid
Long story short: I'm with BT at the moment and have been in dispute with them for about 2 months as there was some glitch (due to their changeover from BT TV to EE TV that wouldn't allow them to give me "Big Sport" which is all TNT sports plus all Sky sports channels so I wouldn't have to use the poxy Now TV app. They finally managed to sort it but they also agreed I could terminate my BT contract (not up until the end of October) without penalty.
Today I had to ring them as last week for some reason I couldn't get any of the Sky sports channels in HD or their Main Event channel in UHD
So I double checked they would honor their word and let me cancel - yep all sorted so within 2 weeks I'll be getting all new equipment (as a new customer would including the multi room boxes) My bill will be dropped from an eye watering £133/month to £80/month which is nice
edit: the early contract exit would have been £400 quid
Edited by dickymint on Tuesday 30th April 18:06
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