Category: Home Entertainment
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Xbox 360 App Usage Up 30% Year-on-Year, Surpasses Online Gaming
For the first time in history US Xbox gamers are now spending more time using various entertainment apps than gaming on Microsoft’s Xbox 360 console. According to Microsoft, Gold Live members are spending an average of 84 hours a month on Xbox live, with entertainment apps usuage doubling in under year. These impressive figures mean […]
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Onkyo Announces TX-NR 717 and TX-NR 818 Mid-range Receivers
Japanese consumer electronics manufacturer Onkyo has just unveiled two new audio receivers to hopefully get the home cinema enthusiast all excited. The new mid-range 7.2 channel network AV receivers offer all kinds of advanced features, with the daddy of the two being the TX-NR818. The receiver sports an impressive specification list, which includes features like […]
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Onkyo Announces Product Recall for Select 2011 Home Audio Products
Home audio and Hi-Fi experts Onkyo have announced a product recall for select devices, ranging from 5.1 home cinema systems to AV receivers. The manufacturer expressed concerns that a small number of products manufactured between November 2011 and January 2012 may feature inferior quality components. Thankfully it is happy to take the products in and […]
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Apple’s Standards Slipping Since Steve Jobs’ Death, Claims Former Employee
A former Apple employee has taken to twitter to criticised Apple for letting standards slip and reckons since Steve Jobs passed away there’s no-one to “say ‘no’ to bad design ideas.” Micheal Margolis was specifically talking about the new Apple TV UI, he said that new design was actually from 5 years ago and was […]
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Sky Announces NOW TV, an On-Demand Pay As You Go Rival to Netflix
Sky has announced a brand new way to watch TV content online with NOW TV, a direct rival to the likes of Netflix and Lovefilm, which offers Sky programming to watch on a pay as you go basis. The company’s Chief Media Executive, Jeremy Darroch, announced the new streaming TV service this morning at The […]
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BBC Plans to Launch Digital Video Download Platform
The Beeb plans to rival iTunes with a digital download platform called ‘Project Barcelona’
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BBC iPlayer On-Demand Service is Now Confirmed to Appear on Xbox LIVE
Microsoft has settled some earlier differences of opinion with the BBC over TV licensing agreements and will now be hosting the popular on-demand iPlayer service free to U.K Xbox 360 console owners through its gaming and entertainment network, Xbox LIVE. Having rolled out a full entertainment assault just a few months ago for the updated […]
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Netflix Cuts the Smut with “Just for Kids” Service – Available Now on Playstation 3
NetFlix is off to a good start having kicked off little over a month ago in the UK, as a competitor to the long-established and Brit-based LoveFilm. Now to cater to the school holiday market NetFlix has opened up a separate section of its subscription service for Playstation 3 owners, dedicated to good clean fun […]
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Sky Announces New Movie Rental Service Sky Store
Sky announced today what they have planned to take the new perceived threat from on-demand services like Lovefilm, iTunes and Netflix. Called Sky Store, its a new way to rental digital films cheaper than its main competitors. The new service will see the end of Sky Box Office for Anytime + users – and will […]
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Channel 4 Announces 4Seven – Programming to be Based on Social Media Trends
Channel 4 will be attempting to make TV “trendy” by adding a new station to its range. 4Seven will introduce the best parts of the social web and present a seven day programming service based on reactions to social media and all the top trending topics on the internet. In a statement regarding this innovative […]
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Apple Reveals Third Generation Apple TV, Capable of Streaming Full HD Video
Along with the new iPad, Apple announced a new third generation version of its Apple TV set-top box. The Cupertino Company first announced that with iCloud users would now be able to store their iTunes movies in the cloud, in Full HD 1080p quality. That inevitably led on to the announcement of an Apple […]
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Bus Fight Viral Becomes a Movie – Danny Trejo Stars as “Epic Beard Man” in “Bad Ass”
This Gadget Helpline blogger is a big fan of those lesser-known B-movie gems that can only be found by trawling the very bottom shelves of your local Blockbuster. It’s even better when you find out something off of the interwebs has been made into one such movie! Now, I’m not talking about the Oscar nominated story […]