Category: Digital set-top boxes
T5 to offer PC gaming on TVs – via set-top boxes
Certain operators offer basic gaming on TVs, but T5 aims to take this a step further – offering PC games via set-top boxes using a ‘virtual console’.
Virgin Media introduces 'greener' bike-based engineers
The number of Virgin Media vans on the road could be drastically cut, replaced by ‘faster and greener’ engineers for home visits.
Babel TV – Freeview PVR, internet and online storage from one box
Peter Dawe and Mark Turner were pioneers of the commercial internet with Pipex and Demon – and now they're back with Babel TV, which mixes digital TV with web browsing, using your existing broadband connection. Essentially, this is a set-top…
Sky goes for Picnic – flexible broadband, phone and TV for terrestrial users
Sky has announced Picnic – but no sandwiches and soft drinks here, this is Sky's attempt to sell broadband, telephone and digital terrestrial television under a new brand to those who don't fancy a dish. It's all about choice, take…
TVonics MFR-200: smallest, simplest to connect DVB-T set top box
TVonics has announced what it claims to be the world's smallest and easiest to connect DVB-T set top box. It's the size of a matchbox, and connects via the standard aerial connector rather than requiring a SCART connection (there'd barely…
Tiscali goes nationwide with broadband TV service
Digital TV’s not just about Freeview, Sky or Virgin Media any more. Tiscali has announced that its Tiscali TV service has gone nationwide, and is aiming to sign up half a million users by the end of this year.
The service will offer more than 80 channels, including Sky 1 (that means Lost and 24 – stop weeping Virgin Media customers…). The basic package will cost £19.99 including broadband and a phone line, although sports fans will be able to pay £22 extra a month for Sky’s sports channels too.
IFA 07: LG DVR Pause and Play TV and PC users
For those of you into your pause and play TV, LG also had new 160GB DVRs with dual digital tuners on display. Each will naturally allow you to watch one program while recording another. They’ve got Freeview Playback Certification from the UK’s Digital TV group, so you can record subtitles and closed captions, in addition to video and audio, as well as intelligently schedule recording times in case a TV programme over-runs.
Ofcom survey: overall TV watching down, digital and HD up
The latest Communications Market Report from Ofcom shows that, overall, Britons are watching slightly less TV than last year, down 4% to 3 hours and 36 minutes per day, but that viewers are watching more digital terrestrial, satellite, and high definition content.
Digital TV of some kind is now in four out of five UK households, while for those 450,000 homes who have access to some kind of high definition content, 33% of their viewing time is spent watching it.
Echoing similar studies in the US, it seems that a significant proportion (43%) of those who do have high definition TV are viewing more as a result , particularly premium content such as films and sport.
Evesham introduces Freeview DTR250 – twin tuners and 250GB drive
If you happen to be a complete nerd (like myself), you might record you favourite TV shows and films onto a HDD, then archive onto DVD for possible later viewing. The modern equivalent of hoarding piles of old videos if you like. Or if you are slightly more normal, you might just want to record then delete your shows. And that’s where the Evesham Freeview DTR250 comes in.
Goodmans launches Freeview 80GB/160GB digital recorders
Goodmans has launched two Freeview decoders with hard drive storage – the GHD8020F2 and the GHD1621F2.
