Category: Home Entertainment
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Apple Says Goodbye To The iPod Classic
Happy Retirement iPod Classic: First Released October 23, 2001 – Retired September 9, 2014 It’s been a long time since the original iPod came out back in 2001. The device revolutionised the way people carry their music with them on the go. The device’s click wheel was one of Apple’s greatest earning innovations – when the […]
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‘All 4’ to Replace 4oD Next Year
Channel 4’s 4oD service was one of the first channel on demand services to rebroadcast programming online via streaming. Today, the service is still going strong, with plans to continue to extend its influence to games consoles, set top boxes, smart TV’s and other connected devices. However, the winds of change are constantly blowing for […]
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Apple Gives Away Free U2 Album to iTunes Users
Along with announcing the new iPhone 6, iPhone 6 Plus and, at long last, the Apple Watch at yesterday’s Apple Live event, Apple has teamed up once more with one of the world’s biggest music acts U2 to bring it’s faithful an iTunes treat – the band’s new album, in full and for free. How […]
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Google Ordered to Pay $19 Million to Consumers
Google has been ordered to pay $19 Million to consumers by the Federal Trade Commission (FTC). This is because of unsupervised children making in-app-purchases through Google’s Play Store without their parent’s knowledge and therefore not being granted bill payers permission. It was assumed by the FTC that Google billed these unaware parents unfairly due to […]
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Sky News Coming to Xbox 360, Not Xbox One
This is a little bit of a weird one, we’ve been hearing reports from Sky that their news service is well on its way to Microsoft’s Xbox platform, but for some reason unbeknownst to those outside of Rupert Murdoch’s interstellar empire, the Sky News app is only going to turn up on the Xbox 360, […]
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Netflix Gets Exclusive Streaming Rights to Gotham
Netflix has announced it has secured an exclusive deal with Warner Bros. to bring new series Gotham to the worldwide streaming service after the initial broadcast on Fox television. Gotham will begin airing on Fox in the United States on September 22nd for its first season consisting of sixteen episodes before making its way onto […]
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Freeview Update on September 3rd – Digital Retune needed for Children’s and News channels
In the UK, people will a Freeview TV will need to do a mass update this coming Wednesday (September the 3rd 2014) as the Freeview TV guide will be updated and expanded to free up some extra capacity for new services. The re-tune will see Children’s TV and News services will move to new channel numbers, […]
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Galaxy Tab 4 Nook Coming Soon
Barnes and Noble, one of the biggest book store chains in the US, are slowly being edged out by both the digital age and the lack of interest in reading amongst young people. Even television and movie adaptations of books haven’t slowed the gradual phasing out of reading print books, a sad trend in today’s […]
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Activision Could Soon Be Making Movies
Call of Duty publisher Activision is apparently on its way to creating feature length blockbuster movies based on games in their sphere of influence, according to information that’s going around online at the moment. Some games are often likened to blockbuster movies, often including a linear lvel structure and long, action packed cutscenes. Some take […]
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Unaltered Original Star Wars Coming to Blu-ray
Star Wars has been released, re-released, messed with, edited, fiddled, doctored and cropped more times than you can count on one hand. The original 70’s movie trilogy captured the imaginations of a huge demographic of fans, from adults to children of the era. Today, Star Wars remains one of the most prevalent sci-fi franchises the […]
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Warner Bros May Buy Xbox TV Studio
Microsoft scrapped their television programming department back in July, which was going to be a service which delivered content to the Xbox Live mostly on the Xbox One. The department, known as Xbox Entertainment Studios, was to focus on bringing original programs to Xbox Live. The Hollywood Reporter has now claimed that the studio is […]
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Levitating Om/One Speaker Launching Soon
Crowdfunding has brought some amazing concepts into reality, as anyone can fund projects that appeal to them whenever they want. It’s becoming one of the best ways to get your idea funded and on the market, and in the case of the Om/One levitating Bluetooth speaker, this strategy has indeed paid off. The speaker itself […]