Tag Archives : Television

Image via CrunchBase Yes. You read it right. Skype might have so far refused to grace Microsoft’s Mobile OS, however, it did not resist capturing screen on the most popular entertainment device. According to their website LG and Panasonic’s HDTVs with internet connectivity are been  embedded with Skype  which has  been tested in Skype’s labs in Tallinn, Estonia. To start [...]

Image by Getty Images via Daylife Swedish entertainment company Voddler, which offers paid video-on-demand service which offers movies and TV programming has launched an free to download Android app for its advertisement funded movie service. Until this release on Android OS , the streaming TV and movie service, which is available in Sweden, Denmark, Norway and Finland, was only available [...]

Image via Wikipedia BBC iPlayer will have a rival with software behemoth Microsoft  launching an online video player named MSN Video Player, a video-on-demand service that enables U.K. consumers to watch TV anytime, anywhere at no extra charge. it will directly rival the iPlayer. The MSN Player which goes live on Saturday will feature thousands of hours of programming allowing users to enjoy full [...]

Image by Robert Banh via Flickr Sky Television kicked off  UK’s first 3D channel with a live Premier League football match  between Arsenal and Manchester United which was  broadcasted in nine pubs around the UK a few weeks back and was well received. This Friday, London’s Westfield shopping centre will have Sky TV showcasing 3D TV content; this event is the first of many planned displays [...]

Image by William Hook via Flickr The war of words between Virgin Media and BBC Trust has turned ugly over Project Canvas. Neil Berkett, Chief Executive of Virgin Media has publicly slammed the BBC Trust’s consultation on Project Canvas and termed it as a ‘shameless whitewash’. Virgin Media has always opposed the idea of BCC Trust creating a new TV platform with a single proprietary user interface. [...]

The Hannspree ST221MBB is a fully functional 22″ LCD TV at a very impressive price. It has a contrast ratio of 6000:1 which gives makes your TV experience – a complete visual treat. It runs on the TFT active matrix technology and offers a resolution of 1680 x 1050. What’s more – the Hannspree ST221MBB displays all Freeview channels available in your area. It has an HDMI port which can be [...]

Image by cogdogblog via Flickr There’s no doubt that convergence is the future and it’s a matter of time before tripleplay and quadplay services become the norm of our daily lives. For the uninformed, quadplay refers to a mix of Broadband, TV, Home Phone and Mobile Phone Services bundled all together for the subscriber as a single service. The latest company to join the quadplay bandwagon [...]

Image via Wikipedia Apple has just declared its first quarter results for the 2010 fiscal year and they are ‘Very Impressive’ to say the least. Apple sold a phenomenal 8.7 million iPhones, 3.36 million iMacs and 21 million iPods during the last quarter and is now a 50+ Billion Dollar Technology giant. Clearly, the iPhone sales figures are the most impressive of the lot and represent an astonishing [...]

Image by Getty Images via Daylife Patrick Barry, the head of Yahoo’s Connected TV group, announced his staff in a mail sent on the morning of October 12 that he is leaving at the end of the month. It looks like he plans to “move on to new projects.” Josh Jacobs is also leaving although there is no apparent connection between him and Patrick. Josh is the head of ad technology platforms. What [...]