Sky’s offering their high-spec, heigh-definition set-top box for half price.

Box normally costs £150, but until the 31st October 2008, new and existing customers can order HD for half-price.

Get more details of the half-price box offer at packages.sky.com/see/EquipmentSkyHD.aspx, and get access to 20 HD channels from Sky.

Global Radio own more local commercial radio stations in the UK than any other company, and in a bid to consolodate, they’re looking to re-brand nearly 30 of their local stations to either “Heart” or “Galaxy”.

Local radio stations set to lose their identities include: 2-Ten FM, Chiltern Radio, Essex FM, GWR, Hereward, Invicta FM, 2CR, Marcher, Fox FM, Broadland and SGR. Stations that have worked hard to establish a local identity and brand.

These changes are due to happen in the next 12 to 18 months.

More on this story: Heart-Broken about UK radio

If your followers of Ricky Gervais, Stephen Merchant, and the spherical-headed Karl Pilkington… you’ll be pleased to hear that their fifth series of massive podcasts is now available. £2.95 gets you the whole collection, although a mess-up with iTunes menas that if you go with iTunes, not Audible, to get your Gervais fix… you’ll pay a quid more.

Here are the links:

Ricky Gervais on iTunes - £3.95

Ricky Gervais Show on Audible.co.uk - £2.95

Enjoy!

The Sony Reader’s now been reviewed by the FrequencyCast boys. Find out what our tech team thinks of this new innovation in bookreading by listening to our 19 minute review.

See pics, and download our Unofficial Guide to the Sony Reader at http://www.frequencycast.co.uk/ebookreaders.html

 

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Don’t want your Broadband capped? Sky’s just changed their Broadband Max tariff, removing the Fair Use Policy - this means that Sky’s currently the UK’s only ‘truly unlimited’ broadband service. If you’re a heavy Broadband user, switch to Sky Broadband Max for your actual unlimited Broadband service

Go to packages.sky.com/surf for details of Sky’s three Broadband packages.

We’ve just released a 7 minute emergency podcast.

Lots to cover: Apple, Sony, Google, BT… and so little time left!

You can listen to our update at http://www.frequencycast.co.uk/latest.html, or better still, get us via iTunes. 

Share and Enjoy!

 

 FrequencyCast Update 09 Sep 2008 [7:05m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

This Wednesday, the 10th September 2008, the Large Hadron Collider gets fired up.

The criteria for this, the world’s most expensive experiment, ranges from ‘nothing happens’ to the creation of a black hole underneath Switzerland, putting the world’s Toblerone supply at risk.

In the event that the world ends this week, October’s podcast may be a little late… We’d like to apologise to all of our surviving listeners

The Sony Reader PRS-505 was released this week.

If you’re not up-to-speed with what the PRS-505 is, it’s an electronic book reader. It’s been available in the US for a little while, but this week’s launch of the Sony Reader, in association with Waterstones marks the first major marketing push for sale of electronic books in the UK.

This eBook reader makes use of something called e-ink, to draw and display pages in a way very pleasing to the eye, without use of a backlight. The screen has to be seen to be believed. It’s also amazingly power efficient, and an impressive piece of technology.

We hope to be putting together an audio review within the next 7 days - in the meantime, you can read our early review on our new eBook Reader page

BT Vision’s High Definition service is now live. If you have an HD-ready TV, the free BT Vision set-top box will now let you download and watch HD movies.

Films available from the start of September 2008 include The Other Boleyn Girl, The Hulk and Babe. New HD film releases cost £4.95 per download, with older titles available for £2.95.

More on BT Vision at http://www.frequencycast.co.uk/btvision.html

Show 30 of FrequencyCast, the UK’s TV and Tech podcast, is online now. Here’s what we cover:

• News Updates: HD news from Freeview, Sky & BT Vision. Also news on the Skypephone 2 and Freeview PS3.
• Focus - Power consumption: How much power do your gadgets consume? Any how you can save the planet.
• Smartphones: A look at a collection of handsets, including the Nokia 6220, Skypephone, BT ToGo, XDA Orbit and the Apple iPhone 3G.
• Your Questions: Freesat, VoIP, Setanta Sports, Home Hub and Digital TV in the US and more.

You can download Show 30 direct to your MP3 player or listen online at http://www.frequencycast.co.uk/latest.html. You can also get us via iTunes.

 

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