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Wednesday, November 10th, 2010
The BBC has announced plans to make its popular iPlayer online video platform available outside UK for a subscription fee – adding fuel to the argument for scrapping , or at least reducing, the TV licence fee.
Although there has been no official statement yet from the BBC Trust, the announcement was made by John Smith, Chief Executive of BBC Worldwide. In an inteview with The Telegraph he stated: “Not only will that mean international fans of, for example, Doctor Who can get their fix legitimately, but it has the potential of opening up a new revenue stream for the entire UK production industry.” Currently the iPlayer is restricted only to UK users.
“Our research has shown there is an international audience of British TV fans that are frequently watching TV online – and we are excited about rolling out our iPlayer VOD service to meet and grow this demand.” announced Luke Bradley-Jones, Managing Director of the Global iPlayer.
“We strongly believe the Global iPlayer is going to offer an excellent opportunity for the UK’s creative industry to directly reach much sought after digital audiences and revenue streams around the world.”
Via Net Imperative
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Tuesday, September 7th, 2010
SeeSaw – the online viewing portal (could we have made it sound more boring?) is giving shows away on the cheap! Yessirreebob! We’re talking about an entire season of Spooks for a paltry 99p. That buys you a rubbish burger at McDonalds.
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Thursday, August 12th, 2010
ESPN is launching a mobile phone service that promises footage of every Premier League goal, “within minutes” of the ball crossing the line. How great is that?! I bet Sky wish they’d thought of it.
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Wednesday, August 4th, 2010
Beleaguered ITV are looking at ways of making more money. They weighed up having commercial breaks that lasted one hour at a time, but that wasn’t feasible. So they’re looking at the internet to make some cash.
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Tuesday, August 3rd, 2010
Lets face it – ITV is rubbish isn’t it? If it wasn’t for Simon Cowell, the occasional Champions League match and Corrie, no-one would watch the channel. And so, with ITV making a move to pay-TV with three high-definition channels vanishing behind Sky’s subscription wall, you have to wonder if anyone will tune in at all.
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Thursday, July 29th, 2010
3D television is just around the corner as Sky announced that they’re going to launch their 3D services on 1 October. Initially, it’ll be a movies and sporting affair. Not surprising really.
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Wednesday, July 7th, 2010
Today is the day. Analogue television has finally had the final nail banged through the coffin lid. As of now, all the high street electronics retailers have stopped selling analogue TVs in preparation for the digital switchover.
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Friday, July 2nd, 2010
Most people subscribe to a Sky package for one reason, and one reason only. Premiership football. Football is the one thing that isn’t really satisfactory available online, unlike movies and TV. Sky have been kings of the block thus far, with little resistance from Virgin. However, BT are getting involved.
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Thursday, June 3rd, 2010
The 2010 World Cup in South Africa is quite an exciting prospect in media terms as it’ll be the first one that will be truly multi-platform. The BBC has outlined their intentions across all platforms, which will start June 11th for France’s game with Uruguay.
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Wednesday, May 26th, 2010
The BBC’s iPlayer is amazing. It is one of the most brilliant things to ever hit TV world. And now, the Beeb have made it even better! Seriously. Auntie has just unveiled the latest version of the iPlayer which is a customisable upgrade that includes interacts with Facebook and Twitter and allows users to share content via the social media networks… and chat!
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Thursday, May 20th, 2010
SeeSaw, the new online TV service (that arose from the legally troubled Project Kangaroo), has launched the next generation of SeeSaw to customers, which basically, is much easier to use and more importantly, has much more things to watch on it.
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Friday, May 14th, 2010
Thanks to our complete absence of human empathy, we’re now a nation that can only be comforted by mealy mouthed kinditudes from internet friends and rocked gently to sleep, nightly, by the warm fuzzy tones of the television set. The machines are our only friends. And now, one machine in particular will watch over you while you sleep.
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Friday, March 19th, 2010
BSkyB is to launch 3D satellite TV directly into our prised eyeballs with the Premier League clash between Manchester United and Chelsea on Easter Saturday, 3rd April. Just imagine Wayne Rooney’s gnarled head peering out of the screen at you. Sky ran a test of the 3D coverage with Man Utd’s match against Arsenal in a handful of pubs. It was obviously a success.
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Monday, January 11th, 2010
The BBC iPlayer is now available on Freesat devices. Yep, you can now get iPlayer on a normal, household set top box or TV set. No longer do you have to huddle around a laptop on someone’s knee. Isn’t technology exciting sometimes?
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Friday, January 8th, 2010
Green screen, the process by which directors can map any image behind on actor to make them appear to be in a place too fantastic or expensive to visit, is normally thought of in terms of action films. The fantasy and sci-fi genre relies heavily on green screen and CGI to fully realise a vision by those that make TV and film (it doesn’t always work, granted). However, green screen is far more prevalent than you might think. For example, did you know that Ugly Betty is filled with CGI and green screenery? Here’s a video for all you technerds out there. It’s very interesting.
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Tuesday, January 5th, 2010
Here’s an interesting little story. According to a new report, Heroes is the most illegally downloaded show of 2009. According to TorrentFreak, the number of downloads on BitTorrent – around 6,580,000 – exceeded the average viewership – an estimated 5,900,000 – on US television in 2009. It goes without saying that Lost is up there as well as Dexter.
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Tuesday, December 22nd, 2009
The BBC Trust confirmed that it had given the green light to Project Canvas, the video-on-demand joint venture between all the channels, but has imposed conditions on the corporation’s involvement to minimise “harmful effects on the market”.
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Tuesday, November 17th, 2009
Twitter users will soon be able to tweet to each other via their TV sets while watching entertainment and sports shows, after Orange struck a deal to integrate the service into its mobile and television offerings. This means, a running commentary for those who don’t sit with a laptop on their knee for every waking second of the day. Under the deal, Orange is aiming to integrate Twitter into football coverage, news, entertainment shows and films.
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Monday, November 16th, 2009
Tonight, Channel 4 goes 3D. That’s rather exciting isn’t it? Well, in a I Feel Like I’m Watching Tomorrow’s World Aged 8 Again way. Have you got your 3D glasses yet? If you’re thinking you won’t need to get a pair because you already own some, think again. You see, you’ll need special new ones tonight that have a dark blue and amber lenses.
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Tuesday, November 10th, 2009
BSkyB has struck a deal with Apple which will bring live sports to your iPhone. Presuming you have an iPhone that is. As of today, Sky Mobile TV will be made available to iPhone and iPod Touch owners via a new application at the Apple App Store. Via a Wi-Fi connection and the app (which is free to download, incidentally) users will be allowed to stream live TV from a range of channels including the Sky Sports, Sky Sports News, ESPN, At The Races and Sky News.
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