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The Freeview Guide (EPG) is populated by a MHEG-5 data stream for both Freeview satellite® and Freeview|HD® .
Dolby 5.1 is currently only broadcast on certain programmes on TV3. You can check if a programme is broadcast in Dolby 5.1 on the Freeview EPG and by looking for the symbol below in the synopsis. On some products you can only select Dolby when 5.1 is actually broadcast.
The existing analogue, free-to-air, TV signals are being switched off and replaced by the digital-only signal which is currently also being broadcast.
No they won't. These countries use MPEG-2 (compression) for their terrestrial (UHF aerial) broadcast and Freeview NZ will use MPEG-4.
Yes, however there are currently no Freeview approved satellite Digital Television Recorders.