February, 2010 Archive

As has been widely reported in the media in the last 24 hours, rumours are that the Beeb is considering axing digital music station 6 Music as well as the BBC Asian Network. According to the last audience survey, 6 Music pulls in 695,000 listeners a week (0.4% of all UK radio listening). Amongst those [...]

What’s the best game for the iPhone / iPod Touch? Flight Control, of course. Hideously addictive, and oh-so-simple – land the planes without them crashing into each other. If you’ve not tried it – get it from the iTunes App Store now (assuming you don’t want to be productive for the next few hours, that [...]

Spotted today – a Freesat receiver box for under £30. OK, so it’s not an HD box or a PVR, but if you have a satellite dish you’re not using, £30 will get you the hardware needed to watch over 120 subscription-free TV channels. The box in question, the Bush BFSAT01SD, is available for a [...]

We already have a winner for the first Freeview HD-compatible set-top box (won by Humax a few days back) – Now we have the first IDTV set with a built-in Freeview HD receiver. This telly from Panasonic also has an onboard Freesat HD receiver, optional wireless Internet connectivity and an SD card for external media. The catchily-named Panasonic TX-P42G20B [...]

We’re after some listener help. We’re planning a feature on MP3 Players in an upcoming FrequencyCast show, and we’ve put together a short survey to get some opinions and stats. Got two minutes to answer some MP3 player questions? Fill in the survey at www.frequencycast.co.uk/limesurvey/index.php?sid=61754 Thanks in advance!

New TV-over-IP service SeeSaw has just launched. Offering TV shows from the BBC, Channel 4 and Five, plus catch-up TV shows, this complements the BBC iPlayer very well and offers over 3,000 hours of TV shows that you can watch online. In return for the free content, you have to watch an unskippable TV ad. [...]

Ladies and Gentlemen, we’ve just released a mid-month audio update looking at the release of the Humax Fox T2 – the first Freeview HD receiver in the market. The update runs for nearly 15 minutes and also looks at the new Freeview iPhone app, and some news on BT’s wireless network. We also review your [...]

FrequencyCast Update 17 Feb 2010 [ 14:41 ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

Freeview has just launched an app for users of the Apple iPhone and iPod Touch. Before you get excited – it won’t let you watch Freeview from your iPhone – what it does provide, is a handy and fairly powerful TV listings service to see what’s on the 50 or so Freeview channels. Easy-to-use, and [...]

Freeview HD launched in December 2009, but there was one big problem – you couldn’t buy a receiver. Fortunately, that changed this weekend, when the first Humax Freeview HD boxes started to appear in the wild. Yes, it’s now possible to get your hands on a Freeview HD set-top box – although HD is only [...]

Happy February people. The first of the month means a brand new installment of FrequencyCast… Here’s what we look at in Show 48: News Updates: Fast broadband from BT, SeeSaw goes beta, and some new thingie from Apple. Focus: Getting more from your TV – devices you can connect to get more Hands-on: A new [...]

FrequencyCast UK Show 48 [ 30:59 ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download