Tag: TV
Consumer electronics companies look to more environmentally-friendly products
One of the issues that has been given some attention at CeBIT this year is creating more environmentally-friendly consumer electronics products. With ever-increasing regulations and concerns over spiralling energy usage, both in industry and amongst consumers, it's encouraging to hear…
Virgin Media versus BSkyB: 'supercomplaint', compensation, ratings
The war between Murdoch's Sky and Branson's Virgin Media continues to rumble on, and (unsurprisingly) consumers are the ones most suffering. Sky pulled a number of their most popular channels from Virgin Media last week after Virgin refused to pay…
Virgin Media secures more VoD content deals: ITV still absent
Virgin Media have done another content deal, this time with Warner Brothers. This means it will be able to bring the delights of shows such as Nip/Tuck, The West Wing, and The OC, to its on-demand service. Virgin also has…
Tiscali TV launching March 1st, based on expanding Homechoice service
Adding to the recent run of media companies joining together and re-branding, as they chase the consumer's living room loyalty, Tiscali has annouced that from March 1st, the Homechoice service they took over in August last year will be re-branded…
Geldof to launch global broadband Peace Channel
Bob Geldof's production company, Ten Alps Digital, is preparing to luanch a global broadband and TV channel called the "Peace Channel". Though details are sketchy, it's thought that the channel will include video, user-generated content, and social networking features. So,…
Bang & Olufsen unveil classy BeoVision 9 high definition TV
Back in 2004 we showed you the classy BeoVision 7 widescreen telly from Bang & Olufsen. Now, they've brought the range squarely (ahem) into the high definition market with their BeoVision 9 HDTV (no, I don't know why there wasn't…
CES 2007: PC to TV – the slingbox in reverse?
At last year's CES we reported on the fact that the slingbox was finally making its way to the UK. A year on, and the folks behind the little box that turns your tv into an internet stream (or mobile…
CES 2007: Norcent's Plasma HD Televisions
Admittedly the name Norcent doesn’t ring a bell with me, and when I was telling this to their representative at CES Unveiled today, he wasn’t surprised. Although their plasma HD televisions are amazingly well-priced (the 42″ PT-4246HD shown here is just $1,199), due to their shortlived status (they launched their own consumer brand in 2001), they’ve been unable to compete with huge brand such as Sony and Samsung who have really impressed the HD market. Although not sold in the European market, and with no plans to do so any time soon, they’re available in Walmart and Circuit City throughout America. From what I saw today, there were no discernable differences between Norcent HD and Sony for instance, it’s simply the unknown brand-name which is letting them down. You have to start somewhere, folks.
Hauppage launch WinTV HVR-3000 triple tuner hybrid TV card
TV tuner cards for PCs and Macs are becoming quite popular now, and the latest trend seems to be to pack extra tuners onto the cards yet keep the price the same. Here I am feeling jealous – with…
Nintendo NES Universal TV Remote
In the spirit of the day (December 8th, the day the Wii hits) I felt it was necessary for a cool Nintendo-themed gadget post, and they don't come any cooler than this.