BT has a Vision. You can tell it’s important because of the capital V. It’s going to be a revolution in television — in BT’s words it will be ‘the next generation of television’. Crave tootled along to the launch this morning. The reality, as always, was somewhat more prosaic. BT Vision, it turns out, …
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One more day. That’s all. We can manage one more day, right? One more day of football-less tedium, with only the sickly sweet methadone of transfer gossip and pre-season friendlies to replace the true heroin of real league action. Tomorrow the country will return to its natural state — football crazy, football mad. And this season there are more options …
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BT sent a lovely chap called Dave to my flat last week to install its Vision PVR/on-demand box. Apparently we can’t be trusted to plug them in ourselves, so customers have to pay a £60 installation charge — but considering the 160GB PVR box only costs £30, this isn’t such a bad deal. The box itself, built by Philips but …
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BT’s Vision product — a cheap Freeview PVR with access to video-on-demand services over the Internet — struck me as an excellent idea when it was launched last year, but I haven’t seen much of it since. The company has just announced some new deals, though, which should jazz up the hitherto anaemic line-up. New partnerships with Warner Bros and …
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For all its troubles, Sony seems to be the first big tech company to embrace the idea of advertising as content. In this digital age, where we can fast-forward past ads with our PVRs, or go to places like YouTube where there aren’t any ads in the way, advertising has to be its own reason to watch. Sony’s first Bravia …
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Toshiba has added more flesh to the bones of its Regza LCD television range, which we first got a sniff of back in April. The WLT68 range features a whopping three HDMI inputs (two at the back and one on the side) — so you can flick between Sky HD, PlayStation 3 and a Blu-ray or HD DVD player. New …
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I have been reading your reviews on HD Ready LCD televisions, and while they’re informative I can’t find any LCD TVs that support 1080p definition. I work in the games industry, and I need to buy an LCD TV set that will be compatible with 1080p. Most of the sets I have researched seem to be only 1080i compatible. Could …
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