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The death of TV: Google to smack down UK's top channels

Crave It's now reported that Google's advertising revenue will surpass that of the UK's main commercial TV channels. The deformed children of the first dotcom boom roam the streets like dogs, but it looks like background radiation must be reaching safe...

Tags: television, advertising, streets, advertisers

2 November 2006, 11:05

Crave Football: Which channels are showing the new season?

Crave One more day. That's all. We can manage one more day, right? One more day of football-less tedium, with only the sickly sweet methadone of transfer gossip and pre-season friendlies to replace the true heroin of real league action.

Tags: sports, package, sky, football

10 August 2007, 12:05

Virgin Media pulls Sky channels from cable

Crave Rather than stump up the extra money Sky demanded -- rumoured to be nearly double the amount Virgin was previously paying -- the cable company decided to ditch Sky's non-premium channels, yanking them from its programme listings.

Tags: demand, channel, entertainment, sky

1 March 2007, 11:47

viewmy.tv in really good IPTV service shocker

Crave We've just stumbled across a lovely new Web portal that gives you access to hundreds of global TV channels for free.viewmy.tv aggregates over 700 stations, including BBC News 24, ITV, MTV and ESPN. The service is completely free as it uses an ad...

Tags: channels, watching, stations, clips

29 May 2007, 11:49

Hi-def from Channel 4 and the BBC is on the way

Crave Here in the UK we've long been the poor cousin to the US and its dozens of high-definition TV channels, which are available over terrestrial airwaves in the case of the main networks. Until now, the only way to see hi-def channels in the UK was...

Tags: channel, hd, channels, def

20 September 2007, 10:58

How will Freeview HD work?

Crave We've waited for ages, and now it seems that Ofcom has decided to allow high-definition channels to join the Freeview line-up, possibly from as early as next year. In addition to that, HD on Freeview will use the MPEG-4 format instead of the MPEG-2...

Tags: channel, channels, bandwidth, sky

8 April 2008, 13:19

What's freesat and how will I get it?

Crave By now, you'll probably have heard of the extra terrestrial alternative to Freeview, freesat, which promises to provide a mix of HD and SD TV channels via satellite. Five are also in the middle of a carriage deal with Sky, which makes it unlikely...

Tags: humax, upgrade, house, air

17 April 2008, 12:38

Ofcom: UK to get HDTV via terrestrial before 2012

Crave We've long been keen to see some high-definition material on Freeview, but we understand the issues surrounding available bandwidth -- although we're a little upset that our constant calls for shopping channels to be removed are being ignored.

Tags: hd, bandwidth, channels, boxes

21 November 2007, 11:54

Photos: Hands-on with freesat

Crave If you haven't already heard, freesat is the new service from the BBC and ITV designed to bring free digital TV to people who don't live in the Freeview coverage area or people who want more channels and the potential for HD.freesat is starting...

7 May 2008, 12:44

PVR6280T: Sage(m) advice

Crave Just think, you had to actually go out to the shops instead of relying on jaundiced women selling you 'diamonique' gifts all day on the shopping channels. You had to wait a week for Top of the Pops instead of being able to see the same three music...

Tags: sagem, hard drive, channels, box

20 July 2005, 11:34

Hauppauge WinTV NOVA-HD-S2: Free HD via satellite

Crave It's a PC card that allows you to watch and record high-definition satellite channels seems like an excellent way of keeping your dish gainfully employed. The BBC and ITV have a plan to provide HD channels via the Astra satellites, as an extra...

2 November 2007, 10:22

Sharp TU-R160H: Christmas cracker?

Crave With so many channels to choose from on Freeview, keeping all the family happy is going to be more difficult than finding a present on Christmas Eve. However, unlike some competing products, the TU-R160H doesn't let you record two channels at once.

Tags: sharp, hard drive, christmas, recorder

4 October 2006, 11:08

Crave Talk: Movio makes mockery of mobile TV

Crave So that means pay-as-you-go Virgins get to pay five quid a month extra for a reduced set of content from four free-to-air channels, which may change to three after a year as BBC1 is only there as an experiment.

Tags: bt, channels, rights, handsets

8 September 2006, 15:58

Philips' spanking new iPod range: Please dock before entering

Crave This snazzy little micro system packs two 50W channels, each comprising a subwoofer and a tweeter. This model also offers MP3/WMA CD playback functionality, but with two 35W output channels, it doesn't quite have the guts of its big brother.

18 July 2007, 12:27

Miglia TVMax: Make your Mac Mini into a PVR

Crave You can give it your cable feed for up to 125 channels, and it has composite and S-Video inputs, so you can hook in a Sky box if you so wish. We tuned in the analogue channels with the supplied mini-aerial as well as a roof aerial.

Tags: recording, channels, mini, box

27 December 2006, 9:02