Category: TV
Amazon launches Fire TV Stick to rival Chromecast
Amazon has announced a new streaming media stick, to compete with Google's Chromecast as a budget TV streaming device. The Fire TV stick has just gone on sale on the US Amazon site for $39 (or $19 for the next couple of days) and can essentially do almost everything that its bigger brother, the FireTV…
Xbox One Digital TV Tuner launches in the UK
From today you can get Freeview HD TV directly on your Xbox One in the UK - by picking up the Xbox One TV Tuner. We've known about it since August, and it has finally landed. Essentially, Microsoft has cut out the middle-man, so to get the TV functions through your One without needing a…
Mean old Sky gives just £1 to the rainforest for every old satellite box donated
Sky has made a big deal of its charitable fundraising for "Sky Rainforest Rescue" - and perhaps rightly so, as the campaign has apparently raised over £4m - with Sky matching the funding and raising it to £8m. But then I saw this and thought that - surely - Sky can do a little bit…
HBO joins the 21st century – 5 takeaways
[nextpage title="Next"] HBO, the US premium cable channel that produces the likes of Game of Thrones and True Detective has just announced that it will soon be launching a version of its on-demand product "HBO Go" that doesn't require US customers to have a cable subscription and a cable HBO subscription on top of that.…
Amazon Instant Video can now play your videos too
Amazon has just made it easier to get your photos and videos on the big screen. The company has hooked up Amazon Instant Video (its Netflix-style service) with Amazon Cloud Drive (a bit like Dropbox) - so that if you have photos and videos uploaded there, you can now view them through the Instant Video…
8 of the best TV shows to watch on Amazon Prime Instant Video
[nextpage title="Next"] The TV selection on Amazon Instant Video is quite good indeed - a nice mix of classic shows, recent releases and their own original series. Here are eight of what we consider to be the best shows to sit back and enjoy on Amazon in the UK ... [/nextpage] [nextpage title="Next"] Star Trek:…
10 of the best films to watch on Amazon Prime Instant Video
[nextpage title="Next"] Yes, there is so much choice for what to watch on TV these days – far too many good movies and TV shows. Amazon's Instant Video streaming service has loads of good films – some you may have never come across yourself – and there's even some decent TV on it, too. Pretty much everything on…
Almost half of Britons watch mostly time-shifted TV
Technology has really changed how people watch television. About a fifth of all TV viewing is now time-shifted – either from the DVR or via video-on-demand, Virgin Media found in a study based on data from more than 2.3 million set-top boxes. And, according to the research, almost half (43 per cent) of people mostly…
7 alternatives to EE TV
[nextpage title="Next"] So EE has decided to get into the TV business - but it is already a very crowded market place. What alternatives to their new set-top-box are already out there? Read on to find out. [/nextpage] [nextpage title="Next"] Sky+ HD Perhaps the most obvious (and perhaps most expensive) example is TV veterans Sky,…
Chromecast updates lets you change the backdrop
Way back in June Google announced a bunch of updates that were coming for its Chromecast - and it appears the changes have finally arrived, with updated apps appearing in the iOS app store and Google Play on Android. The major update is the ability to customise the backdrops that appear on screen when your…
