The BBC is asking for all shows made for the corporation to be produced in high definition come April 2011. Goodbye standard definition: your time is up. With this in mind, Auntie will add a second HD channel to its line-up in September this year. BBC One HD will simultaneously broadcast everything shown on its …
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freesat is a free satellite TV service aimed at people who don’t want to pay for TV, but still want a broader selection of channels than you see on Freeview. Oddly then, freesat has implied it might like to start up a pay TV service all of its own. It surprised us — if you want satellite TV with a …
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Times are tough for the nation’s newest terrestrial broadcaster — long gone are the heady Spice Girls days. Five, which doesn’t currently make a profit and has been put up for sale by its parent company RTL, recently announced that it was pulling out of Project Canvas. But every cloud has a lining of some sort, and this one is …
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This will be the year of Freeview HD — it’s a low-cost way for people to access excellent free hi-def services from the BBC, ITV and soon, Channel 4. Sony has announced it will be the first to sell TVs with the necessary hardware to receive these broadcasts built-in, with sets going on sale this week. Sony is pumping out …
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In our eyes, the BBC is nearly perfect. We love its TV stations, its Web sites and all of its radio stations that don’t have One in the title. But when it comes to iPlayer support on mobile devices we have a bee in our bonnet and that bee is angry and very stingy. Why? Because we think the BBC …
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The BBC wants to film the 2012 Olympics in 3D — thrilling news for sport fans, no doubt, but to do that, it would need to support all the platforms its TV is shown on, not just Sky and Virgin. Freeview offers the most challenges, but transmitter and broadcast company Arqiva is working on ways to send 3D over Freeview …
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A new app that lets you watch iPlayer on your Android-powered phone has popped up on the Market. myPlayer is unofficial, but unlike the BBC’s own iPlayer solution, it’s available now and on phones running older versions of the Google OS. The simple application is free to download until the BBC lawyers find it and pull their killjoy cease and …
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Internet on your mobile phone has gone from being a niche interest just a few years ago to being totally essential and something we can’t live without, like coffee. So when it’s slow or behaving like a petulant child, it would be useful to have some numerical evidence to wave in the faces of customer services. To help you with …
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Project Canvas, the multi-broadcaster project aimed at offering streaming TV content over the Internet, recently gained approval from the BBC Trust. With that hurdle cleared, the project will now need support from ISPs if it’s going to be a success, and TalkTalk is suggesting that it may offer set-top boxes for free on certain broadband packages. That sounds pretty supportive …
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When it comes to iPlayer, the BBC has ignored Android for some time — along with every other non-Apple platform — but with the news that Android 2.2 comes with Flash 10.1, all that changes. So, as soon as your phone’s updated with Android 2.2, you can head straight over to bbc.co.uk/iplayer and wallow in the full mobile experience. The …
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