May 06
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Filed under: HDTV, Home Entertainment
We knew it was coming, and after waiting for quite some time for FreeSat to go from concept to reality, television viewers across the UK can finally indulge. If you’ll recall, a recent survey found that just 5-percent of Europe’s HDTV owners actually bothered to tune into HD programming, but now that number is likely to change. Effective today, 98-percent of the UK can fork out a one-time fee of £49 ($96) to £120 ($234) in order to acquire a FreeSat set-top-box, and after an £80 ($156) installation, users will have subscription-free access to BBC HD, ITV HD (coming soon), Channel 4’s digital service and around 70 other TV / radio channels. Better still, that number is slated to rise to 200 before the year’s end, and unsurprisingly, the launch is expected to boost available high-def offerings in the region. Anyone across the pond have their equipment set up already? How’s the service?
[Thanks, Ivan]
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Source: Darren Murph
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Jan 25
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Filed under: HDTV, Home Entertainment
If neither of Elgato’s latest from Macworld tickled your fancy, there’s a decent shot you may like what equinux has going on instead. The TubeStick hybrid is the firm’s newly announced USB TV tuner, which is housed in a diminutive chassis that won’t block nearby ports and offers up OTA reception of NTSC, ATSC and digital (QAM) signals. Furthermore, the unit comes wearing the whitest of white outfits and also touts an external antenna and a one-month trial of the TubeToGo software. Yes, this critter will play nice with Windows machines as well, but we hear it tries to avoid such predicaments whenever possible. Ready to snag your own? Catch one next month for $129.
[Via The Mac Observer]
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Source: Darren Murph
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Aug 20
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Without getting overly dramatic, word on the street is that Building B, a new-fangled startup based in Belmont, California, has developed an internet video “God box” which will allow OTA streams of traditional cable, internet video, and on-demand content without the need for a PC (i.e., directly to your 70-inch plasma television). Obviously, as the wave of internet TV steadily increases, dozens of companies are scrambling to unify the set-top, and streamline the end-user’s ability to get all their content in one place — not to mention suck up some totally righteous dough. Although Building B claims their technology will bring a heretofore unseen convergence to people’s living rooms, the boys in charge have been rather tight-lipped in regards to the “forthcoming” magic unit, or services and fees that would be associated with said device. Hopefully we’ll soon know what the “God box” can or can’t do with your television, what kind of “plague” capabilities it will include, and if it will be compatible with Atheism.
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Office Depot Featured Gadget: Xbox 360 Platinum System Packs the power to bring games to life!
Source: Joshua Topolsky
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