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Month: January 2008

Unofficial Digital Switch Audio Guide launched

Posted on 30 January 200825 May 2008 By FrequencyCast No Comments on Unofficial Digital Switch Audio Guide launched

UK Podcast Team, FrequencyCast has released an audio podcast providing help on the Digital Switchover. This follows results of our survey telling us that 39% of our listeners and visitors aren’t ready for analogue TV to be switched off. See our press release for more. Our “Unofficial Guide to The Digital Switchover” looks at the…

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Digital Switchover, Digital TV

Bye Bye Birmingham Boxes

Posted on 29 January 20084 July 2008 By FrequencyCast No Comments on Bye Bye Birmingham Boxes

If you’re living in Birmingham or parts of the West Midlands, you may find that any old onDigital/itvDigital boxes you’re using will stop working from the 3rd of March 2008 Work on the Sutton Coldfield transmitter means that some early pre-Freeview boxes won’t. According to the announcement at www.freeview.co.uk, boxes affected include: Daewoo DS608P, LabgearDTT100, Triax DVB2000T,…

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Freeview

Top Up TV Anytime disk increase

Posted on 25 January 200828 July 2011 By FrequencyCast 1 Comment on Top Up TV Anytime disk increase

Top Up TV has released an updated version of their Top Up TV Anytime box. The Thomson DTI6300-25 comes with a 250Gig driver (versus the original 160gig version), and can hold up to 180 hours of Freeview programmes, plus the small amount of content that’s automatically downloaded overnight. The new box costs £129.99 (£30 up…

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Top Up TV

iPhone updated to v1.1.3

Posted on 20 January 200831 January 2008 By FrequencyCast No Comments on iPhone updated to v1.1.3

Apple has issued a software update for the iPhone. The new version, v1.1.3, can be installed via iTunes. New features include: New Maps application – Find location by mobile phone cell site Send SMS text messages to multiple recipients Customize Home Screen – Rearrange icons and add browser bookmarks to Home Screen IMAP support for…

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Phones

Oneword Radio to shut in January

Posted on 10 January 200813 February 2008 By FrequencyCast 31 Comments on Oneword Radio to shut in January

Digital speech-based radio station OneWord is to shut down on 12th January 2008. The station started back in 2000. Owners UBC Media laid off staff back in December, and the station will fall silent in a couple of days. Another national station is also about to vanish – Music station Core, owned by GCap, is also set to…

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Radio

Lost Series 4 in Feb

Posted on 10 January 200812 January 2008 By FrequencyCast No Comments on Lost Series 4 in Feb

Are you a Lostie? Lost returns to UK screens on Sky One on Sunday 3 February 2008 at 9:00pm. Season 4 of Lost will also be available on Sky HD. www.frequencycast.co.uk/sky.html

Digital TV

Sky HD Box price drop

Posted on 9 January 20089 January 2008 By FrequencyCast No Comments on Sky HD Box price drop

Sky’s High-definition box price has dropped. Their combined Sky HD / Sky + box is now £249 (was £299). If you take out Sky HD with Sky’s broadband, Talk phone service and  Multiroom, the price drops to £199. Details on our Sky Digital page.

Digital TV

Are you ready for the Digital Switch?

Posted on 9 January 20089 January 2008 By FrequencyCast No Comments on Are you ready for the Digital Switch?

We’re taking a straw poll from our listeners to find out how many folk are ready for the Digital TV Switchover, to help with an upcoming podcast feature we’re planning. We’d appreciate your vote: Click here to vote

Digital Switchover, Digital TV

BT Vision coming to X-Box

Posted on 7 January 200812 June 2013 By FrequencyCast 1 Comment on BT Vision coming to X-Box

BT Total Broadband customers will soon be able to get TV, movies and high-definition gaming on an Xbox 360.It’s been announced that the BT Vision TV-on-demand service is expected to be available on X-box 360 consoles from mid-2008, according to an announcement by Bill Gates on the 6th of January. Existing BT Vision set-top boxes…

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Digital TV

FreeSat to launch in the Spring

Posted on 3 January 200811 February 2008 By FrequencyCast No Comments on FreeSat to launch in the Spring

Later this year, we can expect to see FreeSat launch in the UK. This is a joint free-to-view satellite TV service that’s due to offer 80 free TV channels, plus some high-definition content. It’s due in “Spring 2008”. What we know so far can be found on our FreeSat UK page.

Digital TV

FrequencyCast Show 22 online

Posted on 1 January 200825 May 2008 By FrequencyCast No Comments on FrequencyCast Show 22 online

Happy New Year FrequencyCasters! To welcome in the New Year, and to give you something to make that hangover even worse… we’ve just released a new FrequencyCast. FrequencyCast Show 22, our first TV and Tech podcast of 2008, covers the following topics: News Updates: Updates planned to Freeview Playback, two new HD channels, news of…

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