Posted by Simon Perry on 11 December 2007 | Tagged as: Distribution, HDTV, Satellite-delivered, UK
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.
Posted by Simon Perry on 4 October 2007 | Tagged as: Platforms, Satellite-delivered
Today marks the 50th anniversary of the launch of Sputnik by what was then the Soviet Union. It’s the date that the first man-made object was placed in to geocentric orbit, going around the world in a elliptical path.
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, [...]
Posted by Simon Perry on 1 March 2007 | Tagged as: Advertising, Analysis, Business, Cable TV, Cross platform, Financials, IPTV, Physical Formats, Satellite-delivered, Video on Demand (VoD)
There’s some mighty big numbers knocking around iSupply’s estimates of what the video content world will be worth.
Posted by Simon Perry on 28 February 2007 | Tagged as: BBC, Distribution, Satellite TV, Satellite-delivered, UK
It’s taken long enough to get to it, but it looks like the BBC is getting back on track with FreeSat
Posted by Mark Harris on 31 January 2007 | Tagged as: Satellite-delivered, Services, Sky, TV related, UK, Video on Demand (VoD)
We got a special preview of Sky’s latest Anytime service, this time it delivers to TV, hence its name Sky Anytime on TV.
Posted by Petra Jenkins on 14 July 2006 | Tagged as: BT, Business, Satellite-delivered
After a long period of negotiations, the deal to buy out the BT Media and Broadcast division has fallen apart.
Posted by Petra Jenkins on 22 June 2006 | Tagged as: BT, Business, Satellite-delivered
It looks like the sale of the BT Media and Broadcast unit is coming to a close, with the probable name being Bright Star.
Posted by Simon Perry on 12 May 2006 | Tagged as: Content, Portable, Satellite-delivered, Shift to Web delivery, Sky, User Generated Content (UGC)
The UK Army are attempting to take Everest via the hyper-hard West Ridge. As if that wasn’t hard enough, they’re sending back vlogs.
Posted by Petra Jenkins on 3 March 2006 | Tagged as: BT, Business, Satellite-delivered, UK
Some of the employees at BT’s Media And Broadcast Division are refusing to work on televising live sports in dispute over compulsary tranfer to the new owners.
