Digital TV Category

3D TV in the home is now a reality. For £1,800, you can now own a 40 inch HD TV that supports 3D. In the race to bring out the first 3D-Ready TV, it seems that Samsung was the winner in the UK, releasing the Samsung UE40C7000 40 inch 3D Ready TV a few days [...]

Happy April! It’s the start of a new month, and that means it’s time for a new FrequencyCast – and this is show number 50! Here’s what we look at in Show 50: News Updates: Lots of HD news, tablets, cancellations and 3D. Focus: Getting more from your MP3 Player Hands-on: Who needs and iPod [...]

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Virgin Media is going to be the first digital TV service to get E4 HD and Film 4 HD – news not so hot for Sky and Freesat’s HD services. E4 HD is set to go live for Virgin customers in April 2010 at no extra cost to Virgin customers, with Film 4 HD set [...]

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. [...]

Lovers of the Nintendo’s Wii can now access TV and radio from the last seven days for free. Sure, it’s been possible to watch the BBC iPlayer via the Nintendo Wii web browser for a while, but from today, the 18th of November, you can now install a free BBC iPlayer channel from the Nintendo [...]

If you’re reading this on Wednesday the 30th of September 2009, today is Freeview Retune Day. If you get your digital TV from Freeview, you will need to get your Freeview box or TV set to re-scan its Freeview channel lineup, to make sure you get all of your channels. The changes that are being [...]

From October, X-Box 360 users will be able to get TV shows from Sky. Sky subscribers will be able to watch selected channels from their Sky package on the X-Box 360 once a planned software update is rolled out in October. Sky Player will also allow you to create an avatar of yourself and watch [...]

Hot off the press, over 16 minutes of tech and TV news from the team at FrequencyCast. In this update we look at the merging of two mobile networks, what Apple’s been up to this month, Freeview HD testing, BT Vision updates, a Sky offer, the latest on iPhone sat nav applications, and a new [...]

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Tomorrow sees the start of the 2009/2010 English Premier League footy season. In case you’re not kitted out with Sky, Virgin, or any other digital services offering sporting coverage, you can still watch tomorrow’s matches, coutesy of an online service from Sky: Everton vs Arsenal (EPSN) and Chelsea vs Hull (Sky Sports) are both available [...]

As we discussed in today’s podcast update, it’s now possible to get ESPN on a Freeview box or TV that has a suitable card slot (known as a CI slot). The CI slot accepts a CAM, which accepts a subscription card. If you were previously able to get Setanta Sports on Freeview, then you should [...]

FrequencyCast Update 12 August 2009 [ 10:43 ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

Show 42 of FrequencyCast, the UK’s TV and Tech podcast, has just been released. In our regular online radio show, we discuss all that’s new with digital TV and technology. Here’s what we cover in this show: News Updates: ESPN launches Premier League service, 4 HD channels come to Virgin, half-price mobile broadband and robotic [...]

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Everyone remembers good old Teletext. The only real way to get on-demand content before the net came along. Ceefax and Teletext are set to be retired after the Digital Switchover is complete, in favour of the more high-tech “press the red button” digital TV service. It seems that Teletext, as used on ITV and Channel [...]

We’ve just released an audio update to cover some stories that have broken since our last full-length show… In our update, we look at the latest on Setanta / ESPN, good news for Virgin Media customers looking for HD, news of a product recall for the o2 Joggler, plus the end of the road for [...]

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Show 41 of FrequencyCast, the UK’s TV and Tech podcast, has just been released. In our regular online radio show, we discuss all that’s new with digital TV and technology. Here’s what we cover in this show: News Updates: Setanta Sport collapses, a date is set for Freeview HD, plus what’s set to change in [...]

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We’ve been reporting on the ongoing financial problems at Setanta for weeks. Today at 6pm, the plug was finally pulled and the Setanta channels in the UK went dark. The company formally went into administration at 2:30pm on Tuesday 23rd June, leaving an estimated 1.2 million UK customers without their sports service. We’ll be covering [...]

This month, Ofcom announced details of the fourth service to be offering free-to-view HD content, when the new Freeview HD service goes live. Bids are in and the fourth slot has provisionally been awarded to Five. That makes the lineup unsurprisingly BBC, ITV, Channel 4 and Five. Five will be offering some of their fdaytime [...]

An update on the ongoing Setanta Sports story.. The Daily Mail is running with the story Setanta on the brink of collapse. Setanta needs to pay £30m to the Premier League by the end of the week as part of its contract before the end of the week, but appears to have been unsuccessful in [...]

Sky has announced that it will be offering Sky TV, Sport and Film content over the Internet for Microsoft X-Box users. This deal will mean that it’s possible to watch Sky content on your TV without the need for a Sky dish or set-top decoder, although some kind of Sky subscription, plus a broadband account, [...]

Show 40 of FrequencyCast, the UK’s TV and Tech podcast, has just been released. In our regular online radio show, we discuss all that’s new with digital TV and technology. Here’s what we cover in this show: News Updates: Plans for Freeview HD in doubt, all change for the charts, new content for Top Up, [...]

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As we’re hoping you know, FrequencyCast produces regular online radio shows (a.k.a. podcasts). Now and then, we release special audio “updates” to cover breaking stories, and so far there’s been a bunch of stories this month already. So, we’re just out of the studio with a 16 minute audio update looking at Quest‘s failure to launch, [...]

FrequencyCast Update 14 May 09 [ 16:41 ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download