4oD arrives on Freesat Freetime

Channel 4 has launched its 4oD catch up service to owners of the Freesat Freetime receiver.

It will give viewers of the free to air platform access to both the last 30 days of content and am y more hours from the public broadcaster’s archive.

4oD was promised a berth at the launch of the high-end Freetime satellite receiver last autumn. It will join the catch up services from Freesat shareholders BBC and ITV, as well as recent addition YouTube.

Emma Scott, Freesat’s managing director commented: “We’re delighted that 4oD is now live on , further strengthening our on-demand offering with yet more brilliant programmes. It’s also incredibly exciting to be the first UK TV platform to host the HTML 5 version of 4oD, which enables us to make the simple pleasure of watching TV even better through great technology “

In addition to HTML5, Freesat is also running the European HbbTV protocols.

Freesat is planning music and movie services on demand and a remote record app is also in the pipeline.