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Wham! Lovefilm slashes unlimited streaming price to undercut Netflix

January 9th, 2012 11:23am No comments

Wham! Lovefilm slashes unlimited streaming price to undercut Netflix

With the ink on the Netflix press release barely dry, Amazon-owned Lovefilm have responded by announcing an immediate price cut to their service.

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Netflix movie streaming service launches in the UK, undercuts Lovefilm

January 9th, 2012 10:33am No comments

Netflix movie streaming service launches in the UK, undercuts Lovefilm

The long-established US movie streaming service Netflix has finally launched in the UK, and will be serving up unlimited film streaming for just £5.99 a month.

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BT Tower in London loses its horns and dishes, ends up with new stripped-down look

January 6th, 2012 12:09pm No comments

What have they done to the BT Tower in London?

London’s iconic BT Tower in the centre of London is now strutting a new, stripped down look after its owners were given permission to remove the distinctive microwave horns and dishes from the upper part of the structure.

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YouTube movie rentals now showing in the UK, on PCs and Android devices

October 7th, 2011 3:37pm 2 comments

YouTube movie rentals comes to the UK, with thousands of films on offer

YouTube’s movie rental service has just gone live in the UK, allowing popcorn munching Brits to sprawl over their sofas and suck up over a thousand movies for a small fee.

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Make a great sounding recording booth on the cheap [video tutorial]

September 14th, 2011 2:30pm 1 comment

Make a sound recording booth on the cheap [video tutorial]

If you make music at home or you want to put a voiceover onto your Youtube video you’ll know that recording the human voice in a normal room can sound really REALLY rubbish.

You could hide yourself and your microphone under a duvet for some hot sweaty bedroom action. Or you can try some of the various gadgets that claim to improve things by doing a bit of “sound treatment” around the microphone itself.

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Silence inane BBC DJ blather with Britify Spotify playlists

September 12th, 2011 2:40pm 1 comment

Silence inane BBC DJ blather with Britify Spotify playlists

If, like us, you love the music they play on BBC Radio 6 Music but can’t bear the incessant, irrelevant  blather generated by some of their  ’personality’ DJs like Lauren “Tweet  Me” Laverne, salvation is at hand.

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Global BBC iPlayer iPad app offers Beeb content across Europe

July 28th, 2011 11:59am No comments

Global BBC iPlayer iPad app offers Beeb content across Europe

The BBC is extending the reach of its fabulous iPlayer service, with Apple iPad users in 11 other countries across Europe able to soak up the glory of the Beeb – but at a price.

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TVCatchup buckles under the football strain

February 16th, 2011 9:09pm No comments

TVCatchup buckles under the strain

Possibly put under extra-strain from viewers logging on to watch the enthralling Arsenal vs Barcelona football game on ITV, but our favourite TV streaming service, TVCatchup, was wobblier than Grobbelaar’s legs earlier tonight.

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Olympus LS-5 voice recorder promises pocket-sized hi-fi

August 18th, 2010 3:54pm 1 comment

Olympus LS-5 voice recorder promises pocket-sized hi-fi

Only spotty intern reporters from the Lower Grimthrope Weekly Gazette still use tape recorders for interviews because digital is where it’s at baby- and to underscore that point, Olympus have just shunted out their latest voice recording gizmo, the LS-5.

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YouTube Mobile gets faster, updated website, improves on iPhone app

July 8th, 2010 9:30am No comments

YouTube Mobile gets faster, updated website

With record numbers of consumers accessing YouTube via mobile devices – traffic was up 160% in 2009 over the previous year – an updated version of YouTube Mobile is currently being rolled out.

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YouTube wants your videos for ‘Life in a Day’ movie produced by Ridley Scott

July 7th, 2010 12:52pm No comments

YouTube wants your videos for 'Life in a Day' movie produced by Ridley Scott

YouTube has launched an interesting new project called “Life in a Day,” which intends to document one day as seen through the eyes of movie makers, camcorder warriors and mobile phone footage freaks all around the world.

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Google TV explained for the baffled and befuddled [video]

June 21st, 2010 9:30am 2 comments

Google TV explained for the baffled

A lot of people liked the idea of Google TV when it was announced last month, but we suspect we weren’t alone in not entirely ‘getting’ it.

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Zoom H1 offers high quality audio recordings for just £89

June 3rd, 2010 12:15pm 2 comments

Zoom H1 offers high quality audio recordings for just £89

With a hugely competitive price to tempt amateur bloggers, struggling musos, journos and even those odd people who like to go around recording random things, the Zoom H1 offers professional quality audio recordings for under 90 quid ($99 in US).

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BBC iPlayer offers Twitter and Facebook integration

May 26th, 2010 3:30pm No comments

BBC iPlayer offers Twitter and Facebook integration

The BBC has launched a beta version of its popular iPlayer showing off new features like the ability to share favourite programmes via social networks such as Facebook and Twitter.

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Wales becomes the UK’s first digital nation. Says ‘hwyl’ to analogue

March 30th, 2010 10:59am No comments

When they’re not busy fighting battalions of Russian hooligans in far-flung car parks, the Welsh will soon be enjoying their new status as the UK’s first digital TV nation.

The country’s switchover from analogue to digital began in Swansea last August, with the city becoming the first fully digital city in the country.

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