There’s good news coming for digital telly fans who’ve resisted the temptations of Sky and cable. Freeview Playback — a new standard for hard disk personal video recorders — will be here by the autumn. It will let viewers record an entire TV series at the touch of a single button, will work with programmes that are late or run …

Reality TV addicts will be aware of a daily dilemma presenting itself at around 10pm every night. Do you watch Pete and Nikki’s blossoming relationship on Channel 4’s Big Brother or take guilty pleasure in seeing Sophie Anderton nearing a nervous breakdown in ITV’s Celebrity Love Island? If you want to watch both you’ll need access to a time-travelling machine …

The EMI Group record label has licensed its music catalog of more than 1,000 artists to Qtrax, a legal peer-to-peer network owned by Brilliant Technologies. Qtrax, which has yet to be released, also has licensing agreements with several other music corporations, such as BMI and the Association of Independent Music. Legal P2P networks have become more commonplace in the wake …