[mythtvnz] Telecom backs Freeview?

Steven Ellis mythtvnz@lists.linuxnut.co.nz
Wed, 22 Nov 2006 17:10:00 +1300 (NZDT)


Nick & Ann Read wrote:
> TV next Telecom battle - from The Independent (www.theindependent.co.nz)
> BERNARD HICKEY
> TELECOM is to piggyback on the advent of Freeview digital television to
> launch
> its own hybrid set-top box that it hopes will become the single gateway
> householders use to watch, record, download and play television and
> movies.
>
>
> King said he was recruiting another half a dozen people to lead the launch
> by
> the whole company in the first half of 2008. Telecom would tender for the
> software and hardware used in the boxes in the first quarter of next year.
>

Ok so they aren't planning on launching until around Q1/Q2 2008. Also are
they talking DTT (Terrestrial) or DTH (Satellite) or both.

Steve