Vision TV Network launches on Freeview HD

All Freeview HD devices that are linked to a broadband connection are able to take advantage of the new service, which is now available at channel 110 on the free-to-air platform's electronic programme guide. Earlier this week, Freeview announced sales of its HD TVs and set-top boxes hit 1.3 million units in the final quarter of last year, taking the customer base to 4.4 million. - cable.co.uk

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RAJAR helps compare broadcast and internet stats - James Cridland

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Media giants locked in TV war to trap you into contracts charging hundreds of pounds a year - This is Money

Sky, Virgin Media and BT are slashing prices and unveiling tempting offers but you need to look out for sneaky charges and tricky terms and conditions before you sign up. These firms are desperate for you to take their TV, broadband and phone deals because they know its complicated and disruptive to change once youve signed up. For example, Virgin is offering free TV, phone and internet for three months, and then 20 a month for the next 15 months, including free weekend calls. - thisismoney.co.uk

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Smart TV is the future - Media network - Guardian Professional

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BBC plots strategy for handling major news during London 2012 - Media - guardian.co.uk

Breaking point this summer will be one of the busiest ever for the BBC and its news operation. Concerns have been raised by senior executives about how BBC News will cope, and what channels will broadcast a significant story if it breaks during the Olympics, which begins on 27 July. At a meeting of senior BBC executives in January there was a discussion on the matter, resulting in a strategy paper that covers various potential scenarios. - guardian.co.uk

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Thousands ditch pay TV to save money ahead of digital deadline - National News - Independent.ie

They said many consumers were considering if they could afford the yearly pricetag of 300 to 950 for TV services when there were high-quality alternatives available for free. Figures obtained by the Irish Independent show that more than 44,000 homes have moved to free TV services in the last two years. Industry sources indicate that this has accelerated since RTE announced it would move to the Saorview digital-only service this October. - independent.ie

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UK's ITV denies warning Apple away from iTV name - The Verge

ITV has denied that there is any truth in reports that it has approached Apple to warn it off using the ITV name. - theverge.com

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ITV warns Apple not to brand smart television 'iTV' - Telegraph

The poll which Best Buy claims was about a theoretical device described a 42-inch flat screen television priced at 1,499 951, which would feature iPhone style apps and could be controlled using an iPhone or iPad. If and when Apple does manage to produce a game-changing smart television, technology and media analysts predict the technology giant will start to move into content. Apple has shaken up the music industry with iTunes, where it sells music on a track by track basis, but will arguably need a constant stream of television programmes and films to replicate that model with television. - telegraph.co.uk

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DTG :: News :: Freeview HD sales top 4 million

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Google TV 'big announcements' coming on Monday - The Verge

We'll be on the lookout for whatever Google has to show, but regardless it certainly looks like Google's making good on its promise to keep working on Google TV. - theverge.com

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Apple's iTV Cannot be Called iTV - Forbes

Apple is still trying to deal with the Chinese company that owns the iPad brand in that country the last I saw that Chinese company was holding out for 38 million in damages plus an apology. The Beatles management company werent too worried when Apple just made computers, but the move into the music world with iPods and iTunes certainly caused more than just a mild spat over who really owned the brand Apple in the music space. There is an interesting way out of all of this of course. - forbes.com

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BBC - BBC Internet Blog: What's On BBC Red Button 11th - 19th February

Now in its 13th year, the Folk Awards celebrate the UK's vibrant folk scene and its achievements over the past 12 months, including awards for Best album, group, musician, live act and Folk singer of the year. There are also lifetime achievement presentations plus the announcement of the BBC Radio 2 Young Folk award winner. On weekends the tone becomes more conversational when Red Button viewers can watch a topical interview in 'Five Minutes with...' or a round-up of the week's weird and wonderful videos in OddBox. - bbc.co.uk

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BBC to issue global apology for documentaries that broke rules - TV Radio - Media - The Independent

The programmes included positive coverage of Malaysia's controversial palm oil industry. Eight of the breaches were in respect of FBC programmes made about Malaysia. The trust also identified other breaches of rules on sponsorship in programmes shown by BBC World News, which is a commercial entity and carries advertising. - independent.co.uk

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Jeremy Hunt's local TV plan doesn't make sense - Media - guardian.co.uk

About 20 local TV stations round the country will be run in urban areas such as Manchester. Local TV has become a bit more sophisticated on the continent and Berlin TV now features news, travel programmes and a chat show. It is this kind of local TV which Jeremy Hunt, the culture secretary, says he wants to bring into British homes. - guardian.co.uk

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Googles home entertainment foray: Why the Motorola deal may work - ZDNet

Google is reportedly developing a home-entertainment system under its own brand that will have integrated hardware and software. Fortunately for Google that master plan also rhymes nicely with Motorola. The Wall Street Journal reports that this home entertainment system from Google will offer streaming music. - zdnet.com

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George Howarth: Government Can Ensure a Diverse UK Broadcast Sector Through Level Playing Field

The recent visit of Chancellor George Osborne to China was a timely reminder of one area in which our struggling economy must excel if we are to remain competitive in the 21st century. I believe we must sell both our advanced products and our creative expertise such as broadcasting to Asia as its appetite for them grows. Government statistics published in December 2011 show that 1.5 million people are employed in the creative industries 5.1 of the UK's employment. - huffingtonpost.co.uk

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France 24 gets Freeview window in the UK - News - Rapid TV News

Some 5.2 million boxes have already been sold across the UK. With this new agreement, France 24 will reach 5.2 million additional households in the country with an estimated 12 million viewers by the end of this year. In the UK, the channels English version is also available in on the Sky platform and on Freesat. - rapidtvnews.com

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Ariel - A decade of CBeebies and CBBC

With Bristol, there's a huge specialist genre, which has been there for a long time, and what builds up around it is suppliers, indies, post-production specialists, digital suppliers and specialist partners. CBBC and CBeebies are also currently enjoying their biggest audience reach and share, and are among the corporation's five editorial priorities. Given the channels' viewers are 'digital natives' born in the internet age, and early adopters, it's likely they will be among the first to figure how to use any new devices. - bbc.co.uk

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Director-general admits BBC has too few older women on TV - TV Radio - Media - The Independent

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BBC Trust - Trust's service review of BBC Parliament and the BBC News Channel

Please visit the BBC Trust homepage to find the information you want. you may have typed the web address incorrectly - please check the spelling, or that there are no spaces or capital letters. Alternatively, please try the other links and search box on this page. - bbc.co.uk

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BBC News channel must maintain quality, says trust - Media - guardian.co.uk

The BBC News channel could be required to drop its second presenter outside of major breaking stories. The BBC News channel's audience had gone up in the last five years, according to the trust it was watched at least once a week by nearly 20 of the population in 2010-11 and people were watching for longer. The channel's weekly reach, although growing, was just 1.4 in 2010/11. - guardian.co.uk

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Revealed: How parents control children’s access to adult media - ParentPort

A new online survey conducted by the website ParentPort reveals that, of those parents surveyed whose children watch films at home, 40 had allowed their children to watch a film classified above their age. The survey of 1,800 respondents from the UKs two largest online parenting communities Mumsnet and Netmums - reveals the challenges and pressures parents face when it comes to keeping the media their children see age-appropriate. Of those parents surveyed whose children play video games, a quarter 25 had allowed their children to play games classified above their age. - parentport.org.uk

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Thomson encoders and the BBC

Following its own technical assessment, Ofcom published a report on Sept. 5, 2011, supporting the launch of a fifth service. The Ofcom document also notes Thomson Video Networks' timely delivery of past and present developments, and the company's track record of meeting schedule commitments. The EM3000 combines compression efficiency and advanced preprocessing to deliver clearer pictures with increased depth and clarity, broadcasting high-quality HD content at bit rates as low as 4 Mb/s. - screenafrica.com

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Radio s industrial revolution - James Cridland

I took part in a session hosted by Tim Davie, no less about radios future available online here and instead of an ambitious slideshow, I told two stories. This is what I said In 1989, I did a week of work experience at my local commercial radio station called Pennine Radio. They read one news bulletin an hour edited tape recorded audio from London on 8-track cartridges typed on old clunky noisy typewriters watched Oracle and Ceefax and smoked like chimneys. - james.cridland.net

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LG, Unity Technologies team up to bring video games to Smart TVs - VentureBeat

Unity Technologies and electronics manufacturing giant LG are teaming up to bring video games to Smart TVs in 2012. The deal is similar to one LG recently made with cloud gaming service Gaikai and is all part of the companys plan to market its line of products as all-in-one multimedia systems. Unity Technologies is the creator of the Unity development platform, which allows users to create and distribute interactive 3D and 2D content to mobile phones, app stores, tablets, set-top boxes, connected TVs and more. - venturebeat.com

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YouView will launch this Spring, says TalkTalk • reghardware

YouView was to have gone live in the Summer of 2011, but arguments over the service's technical specs and the location of content providers within its electronic programme guide forced the launch to be put back to 2012. - reghardware.com

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DTG :: News :: Lords agree Local Digital Television Programme Services Order 2012

The motion, moved by government spokeswoman for culture, media and sport Baroness Rawlings, would ensure there was greater emphasis and plurality placed on the importance of local television channels. An impact assessment based on Ofcom research identified that 80 of people rate local news as important, she added. Baroness Rawlings explained that the two instruments before the committee were to be considered collectively with a third instrument to secure electronic programme guide prominence for local TV to be considered at a later date. - dtg.org.uk

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TalkTalk loses another 50,000 customers - Technology - guardian.co.uk

TalkTalk has reported a fifth consecutive quarter of customer defections. The broadband and TV provider has lost 170,000 customers since November 2010, bringing its total down to 4.079 million, as BT and Sky continued to attract the lion's share of new broadband customers and poach business from rivals. However, TalkTalk's share price raced up 9 to 130p in morning trading on Tuesday, as investors cheered a raised profit forecast from chief executive Dido Harding. - guardian.co.uk

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Catch-up won t be the sole TV source - Metro.co.uk

A TV revolution is about to take place Theres nothing on telly these days. As on-demand shows become more popular and the devices on which we watch shows evolve, will the humble television be playing catch-up Will there be a time when there actually is nothing on TV - metro.co.uk

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What is Ultraviolet? - TV DVD - Which? Technology

Ultraviolet is a new system for organising movies and TV content purchased either digitally or physically. Media supported by this service is hosted on the cloud, and provides its owners with a central library than can be accessed from most devices that can access the internet. The site itself doesn't offer any film content, but pulls together the viewers media purchased from retailers. - which.co.uk

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informitv - 4K resolution displays bring really high definition

After high-definition, the next step in television displays will be 4K resolution. Some manufacturers are already showing screens around four times the resolution of high definition, with around four thousand pixels across, generally referred to as 4K. Some might suggest such high resolution is unnecessary in the home, but it may be technologically inevitable, whether the broadcast industry is ready or not. - informitv.com

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informitv - BT Vision plans to leave Mediaroom

BT Vision is apparently preparing to drop the Microsoft Mediaroom platform and put in place a browser-based replacement running on Linux. The migration away from Mediaroom would be an embarrassment for Microsoft, which developed a special variant to cater for the BT Vision hybrid broadcast and broadband service. BT is a partner in the planned YouView platform, which also specifies a Linux operating system. - informitv.com

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Accenture advertises on BBC Sport - how?

So it could be that this always happens, and Ive simply missed it. I do know that the BBC has to credit the Barclays Premiership, and similar naming deals. To me, that looks like an ad for Accenture on the BBCs own captions. - mediauk.com

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TV credits should be bigger and slower - TV Radio - Media - The Independent

End credits on TV shows need to be more prominent, says a report from the actors' union, Equity. More than 10,000 people took part in a survey after viewers' complaints over fast-rolling and shrunken credits. - independent.co.uk

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BBC News - BT to offer 300 Mbps fibre optic broadband on demand in 2013

According to Ofcom the current UK broadband average is 7.6 Mbps. The company made the announcement following successful trials of so-called fibre to the premise FTTP in St Agnes. Costly connections Optical fibre links to street cabinets are widespread, but the connection from cabinet to premises is in most cases copper cable, limiting the speed of the connection. - bbc.co.uk

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BBC - BBC Internet Blog: What's On BBC Red Button 4th - 12th February

Music producers, promoters, publishers, record label execs, managers, agents, musicians, remixers, DJs, and BBC talent worked together with two hundred bands and musicians. Watch funny clips, out-takes, star interviews, pop music, backstage previews and episodes from Children's BBC. On weekends the tone becomes more conversational when Red Button viewers can watch a topical interview in 'Five Minutes with...' or a round-up of the week's weird and wonderful videos in OddBox. - bbc.co.uk

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BBC - Research and Development: Prototyping Weeknotes #94 (30 Jan ~ 3 Feb 2012)

94, of course, is the atomic number of Plutonium, but also the identifier of U.S. Customs and Border Protection's form for which first question has had me pondering the meaning of moral turpitude for the past ten years or so. Recent user testing suggested some user experience changes, and they have also been integrating some LIMO annotation-based functionality. This week Vicky has been finalising some user testing plans and working on a longer blogpost for this site, and Libby has been getting the N-Screen code in good order for Open Source release. - bbc.co.uk

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DTG :: News :: EBU to offer white label HbbTV apps

Participating EBU members will receive three 'white label' interactive applications to customise generic content for entertainment, news or sport. The EBU said that the event would see members agreeing on common approaches to issues relating to the deployment of successful hybrid TV services, such as colour-coded buttons and a common market for hybrid television applications. DTG Staff 03.02.2012 Links open in a new window. - dtg.org.uk

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BBC - Research and Development: Private Peaceful

The video below provides a brief introduction to what binaural is and how it works, there are also some FAQs about binaural and surround sound here. What follows is a brief overview of the results of the binaural experiment we conducted over Christmas. We used measurements of three peoples' heads in our listening room using the process described in the video above. Each person was measured with two different sets of headphones, hence the creation of 6 different versions of the service. - bbc.co.uk

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Football bosses claim victory in satellite TV row - TV Radio - Media - The Independent

Football industry bosses today said they would tackle publicans using foreign satellite systems to broadcast Premier League action without permission after a new court ruling in a long-running row over the screening of live games in bars. The judge said a lower court should assess what profits some pubs had made and what losses the Premier League and broadcasters, including British Sky Broadcasting, had suffered. - independent.co.uk

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It s time to get serious about the radio user experience - James Cridland

It's time to get serious about the radio user experience Posted on Friday, February 3rd, 2012 at 902 am. Its great that DAB Digital Radio is now installed in more new cars than ever before. Thats a whole lot of additional choice for drivers who consume 20 of Britains radio while on the road. - james.cridland.net

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BT Vision throws Microsoft Mediaroom under a bus for Linux • The Register

We can see the BT offering becoming far lighter in terms of software licence costs here almost none, in what looks like a preparation for a much broader installation for an OTT war. Raking through what you've watched, when you've watched it The answer is to introduce a brand new recommendation system which will offer different VoD options to each subscriber based on past viewing habits. This will be based on software from The Filter, another UK company that has music legend, Peter Gabriel, among others, as an investor and adviser. - theregister.co.uk

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DAB radios break 200m hours of radio - News - Broadcast

It takes just 2 minutes and offers full, instant access to the Broadcast website along with a copy of the magazine delivered every week. - broadcastnow.co.uk

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Ariel - Local radio attracts 7.3m listeners

The figure represents a drop of 133,000 over the year - but an increase of 45,000 listeners from Q3 2011 - and average listening hours grew to 9.65 from 9.22 last year and 9.49 last quarter. Radio Manchester also had the biggest quarterly rise, adding 70,000 since Q3 - a 39 increase. Radio Merseyside editor Mick Ord said the boost to his station's performance was partly due to collaborations with charities, including the Alzheimer's Society and a local cancer hospital. - bbc.co.uk

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myTV 2GO – Hauppauge’s Compact Mobile TV Streaming Solution delivers Freeview TV on your mobile device - Audio Visua

Completely Wireless myTV 2GOis designed for mobile use. By following the quick and simple instructions, you are ready to enjoy live TV and follow all your favourite TV show, news or sports at all times. Hauppauge'smyTV 2GOfeatures up to 3.5 hours battery life and comes equipped with the latest state-of-the-art chip technology to offer quick channel changes, crystal-clear images and high reception quality even in remote locations. - hexus.net

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BBC News - First Minister Carwyn Jones meets Lord Patten for talks on BBC Wales and S4C

Cuts to BBC Wales are disproportionate, he said ahead of a meeting with Lord Patten. BBC Wales has outlined plans to save 10.7m over five years. Meanwhile, the responsibility for the bulk of S4C's funding is being transferred from the UK government to the TV licence fee. - bbc.co.uk

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Ariel - Radio 4 goes “from strength to strength”

2 February 2012 Last updated at 0904 BBC Radio picked up an extra 435,000 listeners over the last year, according to the latest Rajar figures. Statistics for the last quarter Q4 2011 show that 46.7 million people tuned into radio overall, with BBC Radio drawing a weekly audience of 34.9m, while commercial radio's reach dropped by 0.7 year-on-year to 32.8m. In terms of share and reach, the total audience for BBC network radio has increased slightly over the last 12 months, with Radio 4 boasting a 5 audience growth to achieve 10.83m weekly listeners, just under its record high of 10.85m. - bbc.co.uk

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Time for C4 to do the Shuffle - Comment - Broadcast

2 February, 2012 By Kate Bulkley Service should benefit viewers and boost revenue, says Kate Bulkley. It takes just 2 minutes and offers full, instant access to the Broadcast website along with a copy of the magazine delivered every week. - broadcastnow.co.uk

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ITV2 and 3 coming to the islands - Guernsey News from ITV Channel Television - channelonline.tv

ITV 2 and 3 will be available on Freeview to Channel Islanders from the end of next month. As part of the transition some channels will be moved to new frequencies, which means digital tvs and boxes may have to be retuned. For extra advice on retuning, Digital UK can be contacted via their website digitaluk.co.uk/retuning or their advice line 08456 50 50 50. - channelonline.tv

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Is the BSkyB Falling on Netflix? (NFLX)

BSkyB -- the U.K. satellite television giant controlled by News Corp. Nasdaq NWS -- revealed that it will be throwing its hat into the premium streaming ring. A group of leading broadcasters and Internet service providers are hoping to launch YouView later this year. - fool.com

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