digital tv

Digital-TV market lights up

News Worldwide revenue from the sale of digital-TV receivers soared by 70 percent in 2004 compared with the previous year, a new study has shown. The expected retail revenue from digital-TV sales in 2010 will be more than $39 billion, with North America...

6 May 2005, 11:09

GP surgeries enlist digital TV receptionists

News More than 1,100 of the UK's GP surgeries can now offer patients the ability to amend, book and cancel appointments via digital interactive TV and mobile phone. While Web-based appointment bookings are more commonplace, Langrick added, the digital...

24 July 2007, 10:03

HP wants TV to be households' digital hub

News Hewlett-Packard is shifting some of the power in the digital home from the PC to the television. The computer and printer maker on Friday demonstrated a new technology for its high-definition televisions that will let consumers directly access...

12 September 2005, 10:37

News.blog: Dutch TV goes digital

News The Netherlands on Tuesday became the first country in the world to eliminate analogue television signals altogether and switch to digital. The Dutch government has handed the bandwidth freed up by the analogue switch-off over to Royal KPN NV, a...

13 December 2006, 10:32

Yahoo hooks up with digital TV

News TiVo's digital video recorders use hard drives to store large amounts of content and let viewers pause live shows and program their systems to record TV broadcasts and even skip commercials, much like Sky+ in the UK.

7 November 2005, 9:53

NBA to create vast digital TV archive

News The league, working with Silicon Graphics, is setting out to create a digital archive of the entire filmed history of its games, from legendary contests between the Boston Celtics and the Los Angeles Lakers to seemingly meaningless late-season...

12 December 2005, 9:36

BBC to sell digital music downloads?

News The BBC wants to be a major player in the digital media world and is considering partnerships with private businesses to sell music downloads. The publicly-funded broadcaster is testing software called MyBBCPlayer to let users download its TV and...

30 August 2005, 10:50

Intel signs up digital content for ViiV PCs

News Companies such as Sky and French TV conglomerate Canal Plus will provide desktop links that give consumers online access to their libraries of digital content, said Kevin Corbett, vice president and general manager of the Content Services Group in...

30 November 2005, 9:04

Yahoo software turns your PC into DVR

News Those who already use TiVo can still use the Go for TV digital video recording feature by simply connecting each component to a different video input outlet. In addition, Go for TV lets people view photos from any online service and to listen to...

27 April 2006, 11:51

DAB to carry TV to mobiles

News The digital radio standard DAB has been revised, allowing it to be used for the transmission of mobile TV via Internet protocol (IP). BT Movio claims that users involved in the service's trial stages found DAB-IP's choice of digital radio channels...

12 July 2006, 10:25

Ofcom ready to carve up spectrum

News Telecoms regulator Ofcom has released details of its plans for awarding the spectrum that will be freed up by the switch to digital TV in 2012. Operators will be given flexibility in what they do with the spectrum and by allowing them to decide...

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17 December 2007, 8:50

Fox to sell '24' on MySpace

News Fox, a division of News Corp, is expected to announce today that digital versions of TV shows such as 24 and Prison Break, along with feature films, including X-Men: The Last Stand, will eventually be available for download at Fox sites.

14 August 2006, 10:33

Nokia touts mobile-TV standard

News On Tuesday, Nokia unveiled its version of a standardised method for delivering broadcast digital TV to handsets in the US, Europe and Asia. The standard, DVB-H, or Digital Video Broadcast-Handheld, competes with a host of other similar technologies...

11 May 2005, 9:36

ITV Monkey funds TV shopping start-up

News Start-up TV shopping venture Carefree.tv raised cash to fund its first steps by auctioning off several of ITV Digital's infamous Monkeys on eBay. All three of Carefree.tv's founders previously worked for now defunct terrestrial digital broadcaster...

11 July 2002, 12:30

Satellite dish rules update will boost broadband

News The changes will help to meet the government's aim of expanding access to digital television and broadband Internet -- and will help householders to install digital TV and broadband technologies. People want to get access to wireless broadband...

31 October 2005, 15:01