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.

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

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.

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.

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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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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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).

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.

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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