BBC iPlayer Hits Freesat in November Comments

Thats great news perhaps free up the Broadband network a bit ???
Also another nail in SKY's over priced BOX

I don't understand this.. iPlayer (over the internet) streams content on demand. How could this be done via satellite, one-way communication win which we all share the same signal?

Aren't the BBC just saying - slightly boringly - that iPlayer is going to use the same codec as Freesat?

Sorry, don't understand. Presumably you can't get the programmes via a satellite dish, therefore they must come via the telephone line, so is the freesat bit of the title just mean that the programmes come via the internet but coded as if they came via a satellite dish? in which case an actual dish wouldn't be necessary, just a lot of internet bandwidth and a sympathetic provider. Any idea what that bandwidth is likely to be?

"Not that we'd miss ITV much (does it still air?"

Oh you snob, Gordon. ITV does sometimes screen some good... um... adverts!

Yes you're right, the actual content is delivered over the broadband connection. I love the bit in the press release about not needing any other equipment - apart from the internet connection, Ethernet network and router, of course.

I would imagine it will work like the interactive pages on freeview ?????

Wait, Flashlite support is 2010? Crap... sounds like the Wii version may be delayed then...

sky overpriced op? dont you think freesat hd is the rip of merchant here,£200 to install and you get 1 hd channel.

How is it a rip off exactly??? A HD FreeSAT box is ~£90 ??? For a one off payment, and there are 2 HD channels currently with more to follow - I hope.
As for the BBC iPlayer coming to FreeSAT, it's not really coming is it as it has nothing to do with satellite transmissions - doesn't it really defy the point of buying a satellite receiver to then have to plug it into your broadband connection.

Are people really complaining about the iPlayer content being available to watch directly on TV?

The FreeSat spec includes the requirement for an ethernet port specifically for Internet delivered content. This is just utilising that spec.

Also, I'm sure most guys commenting on here have Internet, router and ethernet network. Especially the sort of person that would have invested in FreeSat in what can still only be called its infancy.

This can surely only be a good thing? Or am I missing something?