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Sky 3DTV launches in April – beery football fans get early look

January 28th, 2010 11:36am Lee J. 1 comment

Sky 3DTV launches in April - beery football fans get early look

Football fans who like to mix up their three favourite passions: the beautiful game, beer and the pub; are going to be in for a treat this Sunday, with Sky announcing that it’ll be broadcasting the world’s first 3DTV sports event – an Arsenal vs Man Utd match.

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Goodbye Teletext, the football fans friend

December 15th, 2009 12:23pm mike s 2 comments

Goodbye Teletext, the football fans friendOlder viewers will recall the thrill of watching football scores slowly update onscreen via Teletext, or perhaps remember basking in the glory of its uber-blocky pixellated renditions of maps and the graphics.

Although to web-connected, mobile-internet’d eyes it must look almost comically quaint now, but back in the day a Teletext-equipped TV was the numero uno news source, the big cheese of information and a crucial piece of equipment for footie fans.

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Hook up Humax Freesat with your BBC iPlayer: video

December 9th, 2009 10:05am mike s No comments

Hook up Humax Freesat with your BBC iPlayer: videoHumax Freesat have just served up a short video showing its users how they can grab a chunk of BBC iPlayer goodness through their Freesat equipment.

The beta update should be available to the majority of suitably equipped users in time for Christmas, with the full release rolled out to all existing freesat HDTV’s and boxes in the next few months.

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Spotify set to become unlistenable as Tories invade

October 16th, 2009 10:28am mike s 2 comments

We’ve become increasingly annoyed by the growing amount of adverts on the free Spotify service, but  we may have to give up on the service altogether, come the run up to the UK general election.

In an attempt to woo the ‘yoof’ market and get down with the kids, the Conservative party have announced that they’re going to be the first UK first political party to buy ads on Spotify.

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Brits! Get retuning your Freeview boxes!

September 30th, 2009 6:30am Pete Railton No comments

You’ve probably already been nagged to death by messages appearing onscreen whenever you turn on your DigiTV or Freeview box, but today is the day for you to hit the retune button on your digi-TVs.

Brits! Get retuning your Freeview boxes!

From around lunchtime onwards, you’ll need retune any digital freeview TVs or boxes otherwise you may risk losing channels.

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