Freeview Playback to become Freeview Plus

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Freeview Playback to become Freeview Plus. Home Cinema, Freeview+, Freeview 0

3 July 2008 15:46 GMT / By Amy-Mae Elliott

Freeview has announced the re-branding of its Freeview Playback digital TV recorders as Freeview+. Over the coming months the Freeview+ name will roll out across retail and packaging, in a new push to "drive awareness", and sales, of equipment.

As many readers will already know, the difference with Freeview+ boxes over "normal" Freeview is that they offer a variety of integrated digital recording features including series record, one touch record from an eight-day programme guide and functionality to pause live TV – like Sky+ and V+.

Rob Farmer, director of marketing communications at Freeview, said: "There's over one third of a million Freeview digital TV recorders in households - and that's been achieved with relatively little marketing support".

"We are now upping our efforts and since 'plus' has entered the vernacular in recent years, we think it makes sense to reposition ourselves to take advantage of that."

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  • How exactly do you push sales of a service that people in my region won't be receiving properly until twenty sodding twelve?

    If the uptake has been this staggering Mr & Mrs Freeview, might I suggest we no longer take half a flippin' decade to turn off the analog broadcast and just be done with it?

    Seriously, a thirty quid box from Argos doesn't warrant five year finance!
    Posted by L.Rawlins, UK
  • will you have to pay cause it is FREE view Posted by Elinor, u.k
  • Hello, i just wandered how much a freeveiw+ box ranged from and if you could still have a freeveiw+ box if you already have freeveiw intergrated into the tv? Posted by Zoe Bird, West Midlands
  • I think its quite explanatory. The difference between the new freeview plus box, is mainly its rewind and pause functions, the old system of freeview integrated into the tv, does not have these facilities.
    I imagine once connected to your tv, it will take the place of the existing freeview ,
    how easy can that be.
    Posted by Pauline, uk
  • Does anyone know if you can transfer something you have recorded on to the hard drive over to a DVD? Is there a product that will do this?
    Posted by Gill Curran, England
  • My telly has just given up the ghost and i am Looking for an intergrated system with frreeview plus is this just a figment of my imagination? If not can you tell me where top get such a telly with intergrated freeviewplus Posted by Peter, Hampshire
  • with freeview + can you watch one channel and record another at same time as you can with sky+ Posted by Jeffrey Mountjoy, uk
  • I got freview plus twin tuner with a 160 gigabyte hard drive off ebay for 20 quid. well happy. Posted by pablo, uk

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