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.
Sony has hooked up with Google to create a range of Internet-connected TVs capable of serving up multiple content sources – from traditional TV broadcasts to streaming web video – via a simple interface.
Much as we like some of the onscreen slapstick elements, we have to say we’re not entirely getting the message of these two new TV adverts promoting the new Microsoft Windows Phone 7 handsets.
Google has released a new website and video showing off what’s coming up with Google TV – and we’re getting pretty excited by what we’ve seen so far.
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.
Declaring that it will “change the future of television,” Google has announced Google TV, a new Android powered application which lets users search for content from their television, DVR and the web.
The new platform will let users search for TV related content – just like they use Google’s current search engine – with the results viewable on their TVs or computers.
So you’ve hammered your bank account and kitted out your front room with a lush, cinema-threatening flat-screen LCD TV.
Keen to keep things truly hi-fi and state-of-the-art, you’ve bagged yourself a frighteningly expensive Blu-Ray player and an awesome HD satellite set-top box.
With us all this top-notch gear, when it comes to cables, you’ve got to be looking at a big investment to get the best out of all this kit, right?
Wrong.
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.
With the company shelling out no less than $40 million on this TV campaign, HP are looking to make a splash with the public, with a slew of adverts hitting YouTube.
Labelled with the grammatically worrying tag of, “Let’s Do Amazing,” the adverts are led by Rhys Darby of “Flight of the Conchords” fame, and on first look seem moderately amusing.
Older 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.
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.
From around lunchtime onwards, you’ll need retune any digital freeview TVs or boxes otherwise you may risk losing channels.
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