Category Archives: Music
Apple TV and Fairplay Blockage
Well Apple has given us that one more thing, the new improved Apple TV, However this has caused me to think about one of the less understood aspects of the Apple ecosystem… Fairplay – Apple’s DRM system. Well what caused me to think about this ‘almost’ hidden DRM? Well what Fairplay gives you is the [...]
Targeted Broadband and Digital TV News
This is a reminder for many of you, and that is that this blog maintains an aggregate news feed of hand picked content that is pertinent to the Broadband and Digital TV industries, paying quite a bit of attention towards consumer devices such as STBs and other video/information devices. You can access this information off [...]
Digital Britain – What now for Radio?
The Digital Britain report plainly emphasised DAB radio as the future of audio broadcast services in the UK. It under-emphasised however the fact that to survive, a new model of funding and customer acceptance had to be found and that technically DAB is struggling. DAB needs to move to DAB+ to allow more services with [...]
Digital Britain
OFCOM with Lord Carter has published the Interim report about the vision for some of the country’s critical digital services and communications issues, and it was readily digested by all and sundry. The press have really dissected the report for its facts which you can via your favourite search engine, readily find out. Alternatively can [...]
CES – Broadband and Digital Technology
CES is happening in Las Vegas right now and a great many new announcements for products and services are being made. It is really worthwhile to keep up with what is going on there. Now we are not ‘doin the bloggin thing’ and blogging the show but you will notice that the News Headlines feed [...]
Woolworths / EUK – An Opportunity for Digital Downloads
As reported across the web, the high street retailer Zavvi (was Virgin Megastores) has suspended CD and DVD sales from its website www.zavvi.co.uk due to the entry into administration of the distributer EUK, owned by Woolworths. This is affecting the other customers of EUK including Tesco, WHSmith, and Morrisons. The entire industry is scrambling to [...]