Stuff-em-up-the-hill-backwards has an interesting piece with links etc, on Freesat’s launch today in the UK.
From my point of view I can’t wait to see support for this in Media Center, there are some codec changes that need to occur for MC to be able to view the Sat channels, which I think are MPEG-4. Hopefully this will come from the Direct-TV changes being made for the US. This will give us HD TV in Media Center in the UK quite nicely.
Also over the weekend I upgraded my parents Digital Terrestrial aerial with one with a really great, and now VERY highly recommended bit of kit from Maplin. I bought this unit, Gigaboost, it gives a 16dB boost to the signal and is simply the best Freeview reception I’ve ever seen!! Installation was fairly simple, following electrocuting myself on a mains cable loose and un-terminated in the loft! It’s powered mast head amplified unit.
and with that it’s seen quite a major overhaul of the UI. It now looks kinda WinMo 7 ish in a way. They’ve split the Applications button and built in a really pretty contacts manager. This has always been one of my 
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