Posted by Simon Perry on 19 August 2008 | Tagged as: TV related, UK, PVR/DVR
Just when you think that there’s hope for humanity, that mankind has escaped the slavery that is television, a survey turns up that tells you the complete opposite.
Published today, a study of 2,00 UK digital TV viewers reports that some of the supposedly tech savvy generation Y (16-24 year olds) are still choosing watching TV […]
Posted by Simon Perry on 25 July 2008 | Tagged as: TV related, Services, Video Services, User Generated Content (UGC), Legal, Content Indexing & Navigation
NBC Universal, Fox News Network and Fox Television Stations have filed copyright infringement legal action against Redlasoo, a site that makes video content from TV available to bloggers and provides tools to embed the clips onto Web sites.
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Posted by Simon Perry on 18 July 2008 | Tagged as: Gadgets, TV related, Car related
In a world where increasingly people have to watch a flickering screen to be entertained, it’s not surprising that screen in cars has been a big success.
For parents it’s a great way to keep their children quite while they travel to their destination. Heaven forbid that they talk to each other.
That aside, Digital-Lifestyles is […]
Posted by Simon Perry on 26 June 2008 | Tagged as: TV related, Government, UK, Digital TV, Displays
With the 2012 date of switch off of UK analogue TV drawing ever closer, British MPs have been hearing about the current levels of adoption of Digital TV.
The UK Parliament Public Accounts Committee heard that many TVs that were still being bought, were not Digital ready, with those purchases, totaling millions of pounds, arguably being […]
Posted by Mike Slocombe on 20 May 2008 | Tagged as: Platforms, TV related
It’s a big screen bonanza, as Sharp let loose a ton of tellies.
Posted by Simon Perry on 14 May 2008 | Tagged as: TV related, Government, UK, Digital TV
Yesterday in the UK Parliament, John Spellar, Labour MP for Warley, asked how much the Prison Service spent on “providing satellite television services in prisons in 2007-08.”
Maria Eagle (Parliamentary Under-Secretary, Ministry of Justice) told him that the answer couldn’t be given, as costs that small aren’t recorded.
She did point out that satellite TV wasn’t available […]
Posted by Simon Perry on 14 May 2008 | Tagged as: UK, Business, BT, PVR/DVR, IPTV, HDTV
Pace, UK-based creators of digital TV products, has won a new contract to supply BT with their next-generation V-box, for use on the BT Vision service.
Previously Philips supplied the V-box (that runs the Microsoft Mediaroom IPTV middleware) but following Pace’s purchase of Philips Set Top Box (STB) division, it’s natural — but we imagine pleasing […]
Posted by Mike Slocombe on 6 May 2008 | Tagged as: Distribution, UK, BBC, HDTV
Subscription-free high def service launches in the UK.
Posted by Mike Slocombe on 6 May 2008 | Tagged as: Platforms, TV related, Sony
Three sleek black numbers roll off Sony’s LCD TV production line.
Posted by Simon Perry on 2 May 2008 | Tagged as: TV related, Personal Media Player (PMP), PVR/DVR, Wireless, Portable
While we were at the Archos launch in London last week we had a run through of the Archos Portation.
It’s a free plugin for owners of the Archos TV+ which lets you stream live TV from your TV+ to a laptop, Symbian phone or handheld Archo 605 or 705 with DVR station if they’re equipped […]
