37 
Looks like BBC and ITV’s Freesat has Sky and YouView set squarely in its sights. By adding Netflix, catch-up TV, and other on-demand services, Freesat could have just become the on-stop shop for all things TV in the UK. It’s adding more on-demand with an incoming new box, that’ll allow you to scroll back in time and play catch-up stuff just like YouView, as well as stream stuff from Netflix and potentially LoveFilm and others too.
Having launched in 2008, Freesat uses a satellite dish to deliver your TV without a subscription. It was one of the only free ways to get all 24 of the BBC’s Olympic HD channels, plus Channel 4′s three Paralympics HD channels, and boasts a decent roster of HD TV including BBC, ITV and Channel 4.
Current Freesat HD boxes can already pull down BBC iPlayer and ITV Player, so it’s not a shock that Freesat’s adding more services into the mix. Let’s just hope its new box doesn’t cost the Earth like YouView’s does; free HD TV now with all the streaming you can shake a stick at — sounds like a winner to me. [Telegraph]
Tesco's Taking Netflix, LoveFilm, and Now TV Head-On With a New Free TV and Movie Streaming Service
Freesat's New Freetime Service Is Basically YouView With a Satellite Dish
Google's Taking Siri Head-On, On the iPhone
“just become the on-stop …”
I see what you did there.
And Ithankyouverymuch
Not sure if it was intentional or not
but it works.
I don’t get why more people don’t go with Freesat. I specifically chose a HDTV with integrated Freesat as back when I was buying it there was no such thing as Freeview HD – and even now there’s still more channels and higher bandwidth on Freesat than there is on Freeview!
Sadly this year when the F1 went to Sky I did have to succumb to Uncle Murdoch though
So will this only be available on new Freesat boxes or will it be available to those of us who have already got one?
I suspect only new ones — we can already get catch-up via ITV Player and BBC iPlayer
“Looks like BBC and ITV’s Freesat has Sky and YouView set squarely in its sights”
sky has football. as long as it keeps it, its nothing to worry about