All Posts Tagged With: "Digital TV"

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HD TV In The UK - No Real Progress In 2 Years

I’m starting to get excited about watching the 2008 European Championships on TV. I’m due to have an operation on my back over the summer which is going to keep me housebound, so I’ll be able to watch a lot of the games.
The focus on the impending games has made me realise that HD [...]

 16Apr2008 | Everton | 4 comments | Continued
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Building A Media Center PC

It’s been a while since I’ve written a post and I haven’t even had the time to keep up with my feeds. I did however find the time over the weekend to build a new Media Center PC. I managed to put the itself PC together fairly quickly, without too many cuts on [...]

 9Apr2008 | Everton | 11 comments | Continued
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BT Vision Sports Packages Available From £4 Per Month

BT Vision have just launched the pricing for their BT Vision Sports service. BT Broadband users will be able to watch near live action from 242 Premier League games (75% of games) for just £4 a month, and 46 live Premiership games for an extra £9.99.
If customers want both packages, then they are available [...]

 16Jul2007 | Everton | 3 comments | Continued
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Happy 25th Birthday This Week For High Definition TV

TechDigest have picked up that European High Definition TV celebrates its birthday this week. 25 years ago the first HDTV demonstrations were given to the European Broadcasting Union in Killarney, Ireland.

 28Jun2007 | Everton | 1 comment | Continued
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BT The Number 1 Broadband Provider In The UK

BT has regained it’s lead as the number one Broadband Provider in the UK, passing Virgin Media who had held the top spot for the last year. BT now has 3.7m Broadband users in the UK and 26% of the overall market. What was even more impressive was that BT grabbed 32% of [...]

 17May2007 | Everton | 5 comments | Continued
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MBL Community: How To Watch Free Sport Online This Weekend

It’s a big weekend for sport this weekend. There’s lots of football and Rugby action this weekend, including my team Spurs against Chelsea on Sunday, who are in good form and scoring amazing goals like Robbie Keane’s amazing goal Vs Braga on Thursday below.
There’s also a few more warmup matches before the Cricket World
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 10Mar2007 | Everton | 4 comments | Continued
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Branson Vs Murdoch - Who’s Going To Back Down First?

Two of the biggest egos on the planet are currently going head to head.
As of yesterday, Richard Branson’s Virgin Media Group removed Rupert Murdoch’s Sky TV channels, after Virgin Media refused to pay Sky’s unreasonable prices.
Sky’s channels include Sky One, Sky Travel, Sky News and Sky Sports News. It’s going to be an interesting [...]

 2Mar2007 | Everton | 1 comment | Continued
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UK Media War Takes A New Turn

February has been an interesting month in the UK. Everywhere you turn there is an ad for Broadband or Digital TV as all of the players have brought millions of pounds of advertising to try and dilute Virgin Media’s fronted by Uma Thurman. Uma is going to be paid a staggering $36m for [...]

 24Feb2007 | Everton | 2 comments | Continued
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Quick Links 11-02-07

I’ve finally managed to clear Google Reader after some frantic J J J J S J J J J S action.
Here are the links I found that were interesting:

UK HDforAll campaign aims to secure high definition over Freeview
Vodafone to offer MySpace service
Microsoft’s Live OneCare and McAfee software fails to secure Vista
Five Things To Do With [...]

 11Feb2007 | Everton | 1 comment | Continued
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Would Sky Really Remove Its Channels From ntl:Telewest?

I just read a story on Tech Digest that frankly stunned me.  According to Media Digest, Sky is planning on removing it’s own channels (Sky One, Sky News, Sky Sports etc.) from its cable rival.  If they did do this it would be a very bold move in the growing war between BSkyB and ntl:Telewest [...]

 25Jan2007 | Everton | 0 comments | Continued
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