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    <title>Digital Switchover in Dundee set for completion</title>    
    <link>http://www.simplifydigital.co.uk/news/digital-switchover-in-dundee-set-for-completion.html</link>
    <summary><![CDATA[Residents of Angus and Dundee are due to experience the final stages of the Digital Switchover tomorrow.&nbsp; The analogue transmitters will be switched off at midnight tonight and anyone without a digital TV set top box from the likes of...]]></summary>
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    <title>Freesat considers Sky Sports move</title>    
    <link>http://www.simplifydigital.co.uk/news/freesat-considers-sky-sports-move.html</link>
    <summary>Freesat viewers could be offered the chance to subscribe to Sky Sports 1 and 2 if the service decides to expand its appeal and move into pay television, it has been reported. Ofcom &apos;forced&apos; BSkyB to reduce its wholesale prices...</summary>
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    <title>Freesat adds two more channels</title>    
    <link>http://www.simplifydigital.co.uk/news/freesat-adds-two-more-channels.html</link>
    <summary>Digital TV provider Freesat has announced that two more channels will be joining their ranks today. True Entertainment and Showcase will join the subscription-free based company immediately with True Entertainment showing true life and documentary programmes and the Showcase channel...</summary>
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    <title>Al Jazeera channel launched on Freeview</title>    
    <link>http://www.simplifydigital.co.uk/news/al-jazeera-channel-launched-on-freeview.html</link>
    <summary>Al Jazeera (AJE) is to air on Freeview from Friday. Over 80% of UK homes will be able to watch AJE on channel 89 between 6pm and 11pm each day. Viewers will be able to watch a variety of programmes...</summary>
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    <title>Sky and Freesat to broadcast Vintage TV channel</title>    
    <link>http://www.simplifydigital.co.uk/news/sky-and-freesat-to-broadcast-vintage-tv-channel.html</link>
    <summary>Viewers over the age of 50 are being targeted by a Digital TV network playing music from the Second World War right through to electro-pop. Vintage TV will feature music and fashion trends from the 1940s to the 1980s, including...</summary>
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    <title>Music Channel NME Joins Freesat</title>    
    <link>http://www.simplifydigital.co.uk/news/music-channel-nme-joins-freesat.html</link>
    <summary>Music channel NME has joined the Freesat channel ranks today. The channel, which has a global footprint of around 9 million, broadcasts a wide variety of music videos across all genres, exclusive interviews and a range of music centric programmes....</summary>
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    <title>BBC iPlayer launches on more Freesat boxes</title>    
    <link>http://www.simplifydigital.co.uk/news/bbc-iplayer-launches-on-more-freesat-boxes.html</link>
    <summary>BBC iPlayer launched on the free-to-air digital TV platform Freesat earlier this year - but has until now, only been available on Humax boxes. But now BBC iPlayer will be available on a much broader range of Freesat high definition...</summary>
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    <title>Freesat digital TV service hits 1 million customers           </title>    
    <link>http://www.simplifydigital.co.uk/news/freesat-digital-tv-service-hits-1-million-customers.html</link>
    <summary>The subscription-free digital satellite service Freesat, which is a joint venture between ITV and BBC, has reached the one million sales mark after 18 months in business. Freesat has achieved 250,000 additional sales since November 2009,after a very strong Christmas...</summary>
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    <title>Freesat increases digital TV channel range with CNBC launch</title>    
    <link>http://www.simplifydigital.co.uk/news/freesat-increases-digital-tv-channel-range-with-cnbc-launch.html</link>
    <summary>CNBC the popular business and financial news channel recently switched to a &quot;free to air&quot; channel on the Sky digital TV platform and has now announced plans to launch next week on Freesat, the subscription free digital satellite platform. From...</summary>
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    <title>BBC iPlayer beta trial extended on Freesat</title>    
    <link>http://www.simplifydigital.co.uk/news/bbc-iplayer-beta-trial-extended-on-freesat.html</link>
    <summary>Freesat, the subscription-free digital satellite TV service has extended its beta trial of the BBC iPlayer and is officially releasing the code needed to access the service. Freesat say that viewers wanting to take part need a Humax Freesat HD...</summary>
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    <title>PwC estimates that 15% of digital TV viewing will be by VOD in 2014</title>    
    <link>http://www.simplifydigital.co.uk/news/pwc-estimates-that-15-of-digital-tv-viewing-will-be-by-vod-in-2014.html</link>
    <summary>A report by PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) suggests that consumers&apos; growing appetite for Video On Demand (VOD) could lead to broadcasters losing a further £280 million from annual advertising revenues if they continue to focus their efforts on cost-cutting and fail to...</summary>
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    <title>600,000 digital satellite dishes unused</title>    
    <link>http://www.simplifydigital.co.uk/news/600000-digital-satellite-dishes-unused.html</link>
    <summary>Over half a million UK homes have satellite digital TV dishes installed that are not in use according to research by Harvard International, the distributor of Grundig and Goodmans digital TV kit. Harvard director of communications John Edwards said that...</summary>
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    <title>BBC HD&apos;s picture quality backed by Consumers Association</title>    
    <link>http://www.simplifydigital.co.uk/news/bbc-hds-picture-quality-backed-by-consumers-association.html</link>
    <summary>There has been much debate over the quality of the BBC&apos;s HDTV (high definition TV) broadcasts recently on its flagship BBC HD channel. New encoders were introduced by the BBC on August 5 which reduced the &quot;bitrate&quot; on BBC HD...</summary>
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    <title>Freesat clarify BBC iPlayer situation</title>    
    <link>http://www.simplifydigital.co.uk/news/freesat-clarify-bbc-iplayer-situation.html</link>
    <summary>Following speculation and discussion on forums, Freesat hasve issued a press relase today to confirm the situation with the launch of the BBC iPlayer on the subscription free digital TV service. The release confirms that the BBC iPlayer beta release...</summary>
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    <title>Food Network launches on Freesat </title>    
    <link>http://www.simplifydigital.co.uk/news/food-network-launches-on-freesat.html</link>
    <summary>Freesat, the subscription-free satellite digital TV service, has today announced the launch of Food Network - &quot;the food channel with an appetite for entertainment&quot; - on the Freesat platform from today, Monday 14 December 2009, on channel 405. You may...</summary>
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