Sharp's 108" LCD actually out to buy – should you have 11 million yen knocking about

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11 million Japanese yen is about £52,000. Plus the shipping for a 108″ LCD TV from Japan is likely to be another £52,000, so it’s probably best to stick with that 28″ CRT of yours for a little while longer yet.

The Sharp LB-1085 – which we first revealed back in our coverage of CES 2007 – will be buyable in Japan this July. Theoretically buyable, should you be in Japan and have a van big enough…

BBC to create massive web archive for 81 years of radio and TV programmes

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The BBC has outlined plans to create a huge online information archive of over eight decades of its radio and television programmes.

The Corporation plans to create a web page for every programme it has ever broadcast, featuring information about the show, links, and video clips. Eventually, whole episodes could be made available via the BBC iPlayer or Kangaroo services, though of course some old programmes were either live and unrecorded, or the tapes have been lost…

Nothing to do with Apple – Ofcom to trade off UHF bandwidth

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With digital switchover beginning at the end of this year and due to be complete by 2012, UK communication industry regulator Ofcom will find themselves with a whole load of spare UHF bandwidth and no analogue TV service to use it.

Their plan is to auction off these vacant parts of the UK electromagentic spectrum as they become available, which could be licensed by, radio, TV, broadband companies, mobile networks or whatever new technologies come along…

Sharp launching B20 and X8 Series AQUOS LCD TVs

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Sharp has announced three new high definition LCD TVs in its AQUOS range.

The B20 AQUOS Series comes in two screen sizes — 37 and 42 inches — and features black frame, thin design (94.6mm at thinnest part), 10,000:1 contrast ratio, 6ms response time, SRS TruSound and XT Sound, three HDMI inputs, and an integrated Freeview tuner…