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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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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,…
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…
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…
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…
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
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.
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
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…
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.
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…