Posted by Simon Perry on 15 October 2007 | Tagged as: Digital TV, Distribution, TV related, UK
We’re dragging our sorry bones up to Whitehaven, Cumbria to join the media bandwagon to witness the first UK town to have their analogue TV signal to be turned off.
We’ve covered the build up to this pretty extensively, as it’s a major change to the way that television is received by ‘normal’ punters – yes [...]
Posted by Simon Perry on 13 September 2007 | Tagged as: Digital TV, Displays, Platforms, TV related, UK
Digital UK estimates that over one million TV sets will be sold in the UK this Christmas.
Electronic retailers and TV manufacturers will be licking their lips at the prospect.
Xmas is traditionally a time when lots of people buy a new TV – whether it’s because they want to make sure that they get at least [...]
Posted by Mike Slocombe on 2 April 2007 | Tagged as: Digital TV, Distribution, UK
Competition heats up in the quadplay sector with Virgin’s new digital TV service.
Posted by Simon Perry on 23 March 2007 | Tagged as: Digital TV, Platforms, Portable, Software, USB device
The question of who will supply the software with Miglia digital TV USB adaptors appears to have been answered.
Posted by Simon Perry on 16 March 2007 | Tagged as: Digital TV, Distribution, Government, HDTV, Ofcom (UK super-regulator), Satellite-delivered, UK
On the day after news of the date of the first English town to start to go full digital on the delivery of TV, we’re reminded by HDforAll that Ofcom currently doesn’t have plans to set aside any of the freed up frequencies for HDTV usage.
Despite a successful trial run in London during 2006, where [...]
Posted by Simon Perry on 15 March 2007 | Tagged as: Digital TV, Distribution, UK
DigitalUK is wisely taking a structured approach to changing Whitehaven to Digital. It will form the blueprint for the rest of the UK.
Posted by Simon Perry on 15 March 2007 | Tagged as: Digital TV, Distribution, UK
(Update: Details of the switch over process)
Today the date of the start of switchover to Digital TV of the first English town was announced as 17 October 2007. Being cautious types, they’re only going to be switching off one analogue channel to start, BBC 2, with BBC1, ITV and Channel 4 going dark over the [...]
Posted by Simon Perry on 14 March 2007 | Tagged as: Business, Digital TV, Ofcom (UK super-regulator), Satellite TV, UK
Ofcom and the UK government will be pleased that digital TV is being taken up by UK households.
Posted by guygiles on 22 February 2007 | Tagged as: Cross platform, Digital TV, Distribution, Interactive TV (iTV), UK, Video on Demand (VoD)
Guy Giles gives us an update on how the DigiTV project is coming along. DigiTV assists Local Authorities understand, launch and run citizen-focused services on digital TV and mobile phones.
Posted by Simon Perry on 4 December 2006 | Tagged as: BT, Digital TV, Distribution, IPTV, UK, Video on Demand (VoD)
By way of a background to BT Vision (launching today), here’s some background on where the boss saw it going.
