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  • The five best value Freeview set top boxes

    The five best value Freeview set top boxes

    The most palatable ways to keep yourself in digital TV 30 September 2009 15:00 GMT

    So, you've just retuned your telly to find a very blank screen. Bit of a bummer. Yes, this 30th September Freeview day is all very well and good but for whatever reasons of incompatability or sheer age, your old digi box has just given up the ghost.

    Fear not....

  • Sky halves price of HD box. Home Cinema, Sky, Set top boxes 0

    Sky halves price of HD box

    Promotion to mark launch of seven new channels 29 September 2008 14:03 GMT

    Sky is soon to launch seven, yes seven, new HD channels, and to mark this momentous occasion, it is offering its Sky+ HD box for just £75.

    This is half the usual price and the deal will run for the whole of October.

    Customers, whether currently...

  • iRecord Pro coming to the iPhone . Phones, Mobile phones, Apple, iPhone, iPhone apps, DVD players, Set top boxes, Audio, Photos 0

    iRecord Pro coming to the iPhone

    If you have $259.99 to burn 27 August 2008 10:51 GMT

    Streaming Networks brought out its iRecord Pro tool for the iPod or PSP way back in 2006.

    This device records both video and audio and then transfers it straight to a portable device with the push of a button.

    It records from pretty much any device...

  • Brits freed from fixed TV schedule. Home Cinema, Video on demand, Set top boxes, Microsoft, IPTV 0

    Brits freed from fixed TV schedule

    Almost half of us controlling what we watch and when 19 August 2008 17:50 GMT

    Microsoft Connected TV group commissioned a survey to found out exactly how many of us are taking advantage of the abilities on offer to pause, rewind and record TV.

    A survey of 2000 UK digital TV viewers found that almost half (48%) of those quizzed say they...

  • 60% of Brits now digital TV users. Home Cinema, Televisions, Freeview, Set top boxes, Virgin Media, Sky, Ofcom 0

    60% of Brits now digital TV users

    Seven million connected up 14 July 2008 10:36 GMT

    Last March it was half of us, but it seems that the digital boom is now in full swing.

    According to Ofcom's latest Digital Progress Report, more than two-thirds of the UK's 60 million televisions get their signals digitally from Freeview, digital cable or Sky.

  • ARM promising 1080p HD TV on mobiles. Phones, Televisions, ARM, Mobile phones, Set top boxes 0

    ARM promising 1080p HD TV on mobiles

    New GPU could revolutionise mobile TV 3 June 2008 11:47 GMT

    A new Graphics Processing Unit (GPU) could see 1080p high definition TV brought to mobile devices, including phones.

    Here's the science bit - the Multi-core Mali-400 MP from ARM has a single vertex processor capable of 30 million triangles a second.

  • VIDEO: Tech week in view on Megawhat News. Biz, EU, Gadgets, Printers, Set top boxes, Gaming, Audio, Online, Music downloads, CDs, Woolworths, Lawsuits, Dell, Megawhat, Video, Comment 0

    VIDEO: Tech week in view on Megawhat News

    Our very own take on the big stories of the week in video 30 May 2008 16:42 GMT

    Switch on Megawhat TV now for our round-up of the biggest news stories of the week; and what we thought of them in a nice, neat, and concise vid.

    This week we tackle the EU/ USA wrangle over import tariffs; Dell's disgrace; whether games turn us into neanderthals...

  • BT Vision gets next-gen set-top boxes. Home Cinema, Software, Broadband, Online, BT, Set top boxes, IPTV 0

    BT Vision gets next-gen set-top boxes

    Interactive services, IPTV plus terrestrial channels but better 14 May 2008 11:52 GMT

    BT Vision is hoping to boost figures by two to three million subscribers with its updated service.

    The company has ordered a next generation set-top box, which is claimed to be more energy efficient (so ticks from the green brigade) and has a more powerful processor.

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