Tag: terrestrial
TV viewing at its highest since 1992
Perhaps it's a knock on effect of the global rescession, but the latest report by the Institute of Practitioners in Advertising has found that TV viewing is at the highest it has been in 18 years. Viewers watched an average…
Zattoo offers 30 days of free broadcast quality terrestrial TV via Internet
Zattoo, the live TV streaming service that launched back in April, is running a special Christmas promotion where all registered users can get free access to broadcast quality versions of four main UK terrestrial channels plus one digital channel.
For thirty days from today, live BBC1, BBC2, ITV1, Channel 4 and BBC News 24 will be streamed at 576×528 pixel, 1.5Mbps bitrate via the Zattoo service…
Freeview rebrands Playback DTRs as Freeview+
Freeview has announced that its Freeview Playback service will now be called Freeview+. It’s something Chris thought would be a better name back in 2006 when the service launched, because any DVR with the feature does for Freeview what Sky+ does for Sky, or V+ does for Virgin.
According to Freeview’s Director of Marketing Communications, Rob Farmer, there are already over a third of a million Freeview digital TV recorders in UK households, with the market growing 76% each year. Manufacturers include Humax, Goodmans, LG, Sony and Sharp and Tvonics.
Zattoo launches in UK, bringing live terrestrial TV to your desktop
Zattoo has announced that its online live TV streaming service has launched in the UK, and offers access to the five main terrestrial channels (BBC1, BBC2, ITV1, Channel 4, and Five), as well as some of the others (BBC Three, BBC Four, CBeebies, CBBC, ABC News Now, Bloomberg UK, and so on)…
UK "big three" broadcasters to launch on-demand video service
BBC Worldwide, ITV, and Channel 4, have today announced that they are set to launch a joint on-demand video service, offering a wide variety of both current and archival programming, next year. With a working title of "Kangaroo", the service…
OFCOM upgrading the digital TV system – HD could be here by 2009
Telly bosses at OFCOM have announced proposals to change the digital TV broadcast standard – which could allow HD channels to arrive well before the analogue switch-off is done.
The new digital TV broadcast standard includes a change to the more efficient MPEG4 picture encoding system, which along with a few…
Half of UK tenants aren't prepared for the digital switchover, survey suggests
According to research from Digital UK and Ofcom, nearly half of UK tenants, both private and council, aren't prepared for the digital switchover, and are unsure what they need to do in order to continue watching TV. Half of those…
