Category: Digital set-top boxes
Virgin Media offers James Bond on-demand
If you can’t wait until the next bank holiday (or you happen to miss the constant re-runs on the various ITV channels), Virgin Media is offering the James Bond back catalogue on-demand from May 16th.
Titchy digital telly tuner
While we have to cart round USB sticks or soap-on-a-rope style contraptions to pick up telly on the move, folks over in Japan need to pack just an SD card. The Telebit tuner weighs a mere 5g and will set…
Apple TV all undressed and naked
Give us a new PC and we're the first ones to be reaching for the spanners, but when it comes to Apple kit there just seems to be something a bit wrong about tearing it apart and staring at its…
BSkyB v Virgin Media: What the Blogosphere is saying
It's great fun when media moguls go to war. Well, great fun for everyone except us consumers. At least, that's the case in the current stand-off between Virgin Media and BSkyB, where a squabble over how much Virgin should pay…
Virgin Media V Day: What can we expect from Richard Branson?
Today is V Day, when Virgin Media officially launched. We'd already covered the basics last month, but now it's all official, here's what we can expect from Virgin Media. Quad-play services Thanks to the combination of ntl:Telewest and Virgin Mobile,…
Could your PVR be infringing your privacy?
Interesting news from the US, where TiVo has launched a service called StopWatch which sells real-time information to broadcasters and advertisers on what shows TiVo subscribers are watching, and which adverts they're skipping. The San Francisco Chronicle has picked up…
What Virgin Media needs to do to make us switch to cable
Lots of hubbub in the press today about NTL's rebranding as Virgin Media, which takes effect this week. Richard Branson is unsurprisingly bullish about its prospects, while BSkyB has been predictably nonchalant about the threat posed by its beefed-up competitor….
First info on Virgin Media's quad-play services
So, everyone knows that NTL and Virgin have got together for a joint quad-play venture, called Virgin Media, which'll supply home-owners with TV, broadband, home phone AND mobile. And we know it's all systems go this year for the new…
Top Up TV Anytime DTR now being dispatched
Top Up TV have confirmed that Top Up TV Anytime DTRs (Digital TV Recorders) are now being dispatched to customers and anyone who has already ordered one should get their box before Christmas. We first reported on these boxes back…
Christmas Shoppers urged to 'give digital'
A new retail initiative is encouraging people to 'give digital' this Christmas, by launching the Digital SwitchKit in association with Digital UK. It's another push to ensure everyone knows about the analogue switchoff in 2012 and does something about it….
