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Freesat app boosts TV control
reesat, the UK
subscription-free
DTH satellite TV
service, has launched the
Freesat App for iPhone,
iPad and iPod Touch.
The app acts as a TV guide
for all free TV viewers, and
Freesat suggests that everyone
will now have the power at their
fingertips to plan how and what
to watch, and for catch-up
service Freetime customers the
chance to control their TVs.
According to Freesat, unlike
other TV apps on the market,
the Freesat App doesn’t just act
as a guide to what’s on TV. It
also works as a companion to
Freesat’s Freetime service and
enhances Freetime’s key
features. In the app, users can
look at the Roll Back TV Guide
which allows checking out the
last seven days of TV to watch
programmes that may have been
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Netflix plans
substantial European
expansion
Netflix has announced plans
for what it describes as “a
substantial European
expansion”. It made the
comments as it revealed its
Fourth-Quarter 2013
Financial Results. Netflix said
it was making “great
progress” internationally, with
strong member growth and
improving P&Ls in all of its
markets.
“We plan later this year to
embark on a substantial
European expansion. Our
success this year in
international net additions
and shrinking losses confirms
our belief that there is a big
international opportunity for
Netflix,” it said. Netflix is
carried by three European
cable MSOs as a ‘though-themiddle’ service: Virgin Media
in the UK, Com Hem in
Sweden and Waoo! in
Denmark.
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missed, and the app also offers
TV recommendations on what to
watch via Showcase – allowing
a remote control and lets users
set recordings remotely from
wherever you are – at home and
users to browse through
programme picks for the week
ahead and set reminders to
view.
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