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Monday 1 September 2008

German police raid Hyundai IT at IFA

German police seized TVs, mobile phones and other gadgets from the Hyundai IT booth at Berlin's IFA electronics fair on Saturday More

Thursday 28 August 2008

iPlayer extends week-long limit

The Beeb has now revealed it plans to trial 'series stacking' on the iPlayer, where episodes from selected series will be available online for longer than the current seven-day limit More

Thursday 7 August 2008

BBC lifts lid on iPlayer user habits

The BBC claims to have identified the typical user for iPlayer -- a 40-year-old man in full-time employment, with a partner but no children More

Tuesday 1 July 2008

Kangaroo Web TV faces monopoly probe

The Office of Fair Trading says the joint venture between BBC, ITV and Channel 4 could create an excessive concentration of video content More

Wednesday 21 May 2008

BBC iPlayer hits 75 million downloads

The BBC is still experiencing an increase in demand for its iPlayer service since it launched last year, after a 20 per cent rise in streamed or downloaded programmes between March and April More

Thursday 15 May 2008

Sony posts loss, but flogs more electronics

Sony posted a $45m loss for its fourth quarter earnings, but both the videogame and electronics divisions posted strong growth, despite struggling with TVs More

Wednesday 23 April 2008

News.blog: OLED panels promised for 2009

Samsung SDI says that by 2009, not only will it have OLED panels for larger TVs, but also for monitors and notebook displays, writes News.com blogger Erica Ogg More

Wednesday 16 April 2008

BBC's tech chief hops off to Kangaroo

Ashley Highfield, the BBC's director of future media and technology, is to head up the Kangaroo online TV service, a joint venture between the BBC, ITV and Channel 4 More

Monday 7 April 2008

BBC backs 'Broadband Charter' for ISPs

Auntie's tech chief Ashley Highfield has hit back at ISPs who want online organisations to pay extra for distributing bandwidth-heavy video content More

Thursday 6 March 2008

News.blog: Pioneer drops plasma production

The company will cease production of its own plasma panels because that portion of the business is losing money, writes News.com blogger Erica Ogg More

Thursday 31 January 2008

News.blog: Apple TV 2.0 faces delays

The new version of Apple TV 'is not quite finished', according to a recent press release from the company, writes News.com blogger Tom Krazit More

Wednesday 16 January 2008

BBC iPlayer attracts 3.5 million views

A quarter of a million programmes per day on average were downloaded or streamed from the BBC service in the two weeks after its launch on Christmas Day More

Thursday 10 January 2008

Plasma TVs making a comeback

Given up for dead less than a year ago, plasma TVs are making a comeback, with manufacturers boosting sales forecasts More

Monday 7 January 2008

News.blog: Sony repeats its OLED performance

Sony is duplicating last year's showing at CES, displaying yet another 27-inch prototype OLED TV this year, writes News.com blogger Michael Kanellos More

Friday 4 January 2008

News.blog: Panasonic to debut 150-inch plasma

Panasonic is expected to unveil a 150-inch plasma television at the Consumer Electronics Show next week, writes News.com blogger Michael Kanellos More

Tuesday 18 December 2007

FireWire speed set to quadruple

Backers say a new electrical specification will see the speed of the data-interfacing standard rise from 800Mbps to 3.2Gbps -- which would make it practical for HD TV signals More

Wednesday 22 August 2007

OLED TVs still AWOL for consumers

The much-anticipated televisions will remain unavailable until sometime next year, dangling the promise of better picture quality and energy efficiency over consumers More

Tuesday 24 July 2007

GP surgeries enlist digital TV receptionists

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 More