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 Simon Perry on 22 April 2008 | Tagged as: TV related, Platforms, IFA, Europe, UK, HDTV
Posted by Simon Perry on 3 April 2008 | Tagged as: Gadgets, Memory, Sony, HDTV, Photography, Video Hardware
Sony has announced the Handycam HDR-TG3E, claiming it to be the World’s smallest HD 1080 Camcorder - and judging by the photos we’ve had through, they’re more than likely right. The thing looks tiny.
Sized at little larger than a mobile phone (33 x 119 x 63.5mm and 283g), Sony say it’s the smallest, slimmest, lightest […]
Posted by Simon Perry on 4 January 2008 | Tagged as: Platforms, USA, Digital TV, HDTV
Over half of US Households now own at least one digital TV set, claim the Consumer Electronics Association (CEA).
In the build up to the trade show mania that is the CES, the CEA is winding up the PR machine and releasing statistics to both boost the TV industry and get the public interested.
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Posted by Simon Perry on 11 December 2007 | Tagged as: Distribution, UK, Satellite-delivered, HDTV
Uk broadcaster, Channel 4, has launched High Definition broadcast of their channel, distributed on using the Sky satellite platform.
No prizes for guessing the name for it - Channel 4 HD.
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Posted by Simon Perry on 6 December 2007 | Tagged as: Services, USA, Video on Demand (VoD), HDTV
Just over two years ago we covered the launch of FiOS TV, an IPTV service by US operator Verizon, that operates over fibre optic connections.
HD VOD - High Definition Video On Demand - has now being rolled out to a number of the regions covered by the FiOS TV service - Richmond and Virginia Beach, […]
Posted by Simon Perry on 19 October 2007 | Tagged as: Distribution, UK, Digital TV, HDTV
Post Digital switchover, Jamie Reed, the MP for Copeland (that includes Whitehaven) and Chair of the All Party Parliamentary Group on digital switch over, has a lot of interesting things to say, both about the run up to this week and following it.
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Posted by Simon Perry on 5 September 2007 | Tagged as: Podcasting, IFA, HDTV, Displays, Video Displays, Video Hardware
If you thought that HD TV was the best picture you’re ever going to see, think again. The release of 100/120 Hz Full HD TVs gives you a pretty clear idea that the market is moving again.
NXP showed us a chip the Nexperia PNX5100 which really ups the game for HD. Lower down you can […]
Posted by Simon Perry on 2 August 2007 | Tagged as: Business, UK, BBC, Content Deals, HDTV
The BBC Dr Who Spin-off, Torchwood, set and shot in Cardiff, Wales, has been sold to US TV network HDNet.
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