This is a quicky, but speak of the devil, 3view have gone and launched the UK’s first HD Freeview box, with PVR AND they have gone and added an ethernet port for internet connectivity, the ability to access iPlayer and YouTube content. Awesome!

But, and this is a big but. It’s not going to be available until March

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Something happened on the 2nd of December that probably went undetected to most people, and most television sets, Freeview HD began broadcasting over the airwaves in London and Manchester. There will be four HD channels available:

BBC HD
ITV HD (early 2010)
Channel 4 HD (early 2010)
S4C (early 2010 – Wales only)
Five HD – to be added by late 2010.

Wow, that sounds cool, I have an HD telly can I pick these channels up? In short no. We are faced with an interesting situation, as you will need a DVB-T2 High Definition Freeview receiver with support for MPEG-4, and as of mid December 2009, these are not yet available.

The planned release of these boxes is scheduled for early 2010, perfect timing for Christmas eh!? Oh well, keep checking back here, you know the minute they are released we will be testing them all out for you folks.

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