Posted by Simon Perry on 21 May 2009 | Tagged as: Distribution, Germany, Legal, TV related
Disappointing to see that two Hollywood studios, Universal and Warner Bros, have taken legal action against Zattoo, a service that streams live TV to computer screens.
Zattoo isn’t a fly-by-night operation and has legal agreements with the TV channels that it shows over its service.
Posted by Mike Slocombe on 24 February 2009 | Tagged as: Platforms, TV related
Electronics giant announces pricing and availability for innovative TV.
Posted by Mike Slocombe on 21 October 2008 | Tagged as: HDTV, Ofcom (UK super-regulator), UK
Ofcom gives green light for new BBC, ITV and Channel Four HD channels.
Posted by Simon Perry on 18 September 2008 | Tagged as: China, Content, HDTV, Video Services
Tudou, the Shangahi-based video sharing site that is reported to stream over 15 billion minutes of video every day — thrashing YouTube’s 3 Bn — has just launched an HD service.
Posted by Simon Perry on 19 August 2008 | Tagged as: PVR/DVR, TV related, UK
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: Content Indexing & Navigation, Legal, Services, TV related, User Generated Content (UGC), Video Services
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.
Posted by Simon Perry on 18 July 2008 | Tagged as: Car related, Gadgets, TV 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: Digital TV, Displays, Government, TV related, UK
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: Digital TV, Government, TV related, UK
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 [...]
