Tag Archives: Freeview
Componentised TV Services
A little under a month ago I started (but didn’t finish) a blog post about how the launch of Netflix in the UK (and the ready availability already of Lovefilm) created a special situation for the UK, caused by the quality of the Freeview/FreeSat platform. This situation was that it was perfectly possible to hand [...]
Google TV second coming (in the UK?)
Some months ago when Google TV launched in the US, I thought about the possibilities of how this could work in the UK. The UK and the US markets are very different, most notably the lack of overall control that pay TV has on the market in the UK. Now we have the news coming [...]
HbbTV growing in the UK
The UK market seems to be starting to splinter away from the evolution of Freeview/Freesat with MHEG, towards the HbbTV side, with this report from Broadband TV News. Freesat is preparing to launch a new series of receivers that will run on the HbbTV hybrid broadcast broadbandplatform popularised in Germany and France. The plans codenamed [...]
I’ll take it all back BT Vision
It seems that BT Vision has grown in subscribers to levels that are respectable at last with 398,000 published today. However the detail in the press release behind the post by Broadband TV News is a little low. The understanding about whether these are 398,000 people with the box who may have subscribed once to [...]
Digital Transition Problems
A couple of weeks ago I blogged about the Digital Transition approach being followed in the UK and in the US. In summary, it was that neither the UK or the US had the right approach as the US were doing it too quickly and the UK too slow. Since then a number of events [...]
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 [...]
Digital Transition Approaches
Quite famously, the US chose the big bang approach to the removal of Analogue Terrestrial transmission and its replacement with Digital, something completely different to the UK approach which takes place over a four year period. This was scheduled for February 17th 2009 several years ago, and it is rapidly approaching. However there is now [...]
DVR Success in the UK
The recent Ofcom report which stated that UK viewers are, as a proportion, more likely to own a DVR/PVR, was really promising, showing that 30% of viewers have one, as reported by InformITV and others. However the numbers have been questioned by InformITV based on a quick count of the numbers across each platform, estimating [...]
Orange finally gets around to talking about it
Well after my post the other day about the distinct absence of a TV service launch from Orange, it seems that they have come clean and basically delayed the service. However the reasons pushed seem to not be very sensible except for the issue of pushing a new service in the midst of a recession. [...]
Economic Climate impact and the Cable TV Industry
During the week I went up to London to attend the SCTE Autumn Lecture and the SCTE AGM. This was an interesting and thought provoking day as much for the technology discussed in the lectures, but also for the out of meeting discussions about the current financial situation in the markets. There was a degree [...]