FreeviewHD’s leap year problem – check your timers!
There’s something funny going on with Freeview HD – at least from the Crystal Palace transmitter. I updated my DigitalStream recorder earlier today and in…
View ArticleTVonics in administration
UK manufacturer of PVRs, TVonics, has gone into administration. A note on the company’s home page indicates that “Gary Bell of Bell Advisory Llp was…
View ArticleYouView’s here. Was it worth the wait?
YouView beta testers got their boxes last week, and this morning it was the turn of the press to find out more about the long-delayed…
View ArticleYouView: Connected TV’s Symbian moment?
I hadn’t planned on writing about YouView again so soon, but one of the things I’ve noticed is that there are some elements of the…
View ArticleMore IPTV coming to Freeview – so watch what you buy
According to a tweet from a516_digital, transmitter operator Arqiva has bought IP TV outfit Connect TV. This might sound like dull corporate shenanigans to many…
View ArticleWhat’s smart about Smart TV?
I’ve just been reviewing smart TV sets for Computeractive – the results will be in Issue 384, on sale on 8th November. There are some…
View ArticleOfcom’s promise of more HD is a stalking horse for a second DTT switch
On the Ofcom website today is a set of documents about award of the 600MHz spectrum, with a request that stakeholders notify Ofcom of their…
View ArticleFirst generation Freeview kit is on the way out
It’s not really that long since Digital Switchover completed in the UK, but on the 16th of January 2014 we saw the beginning of the…
View ArticleWhy you should worry about WRC-15
Over on The Register I’ve written about why WRC-15 matters. You’ve probably never heard of it, but it’s a conference where decisions are made about…
View ArticleWhen will your Freeview box stop working?
My recent post on the new rules for Freeview has prompted some questions about how much longer people will be able to carry on using…
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