Tag: channel
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FINALLY.. THE ROCK Has Come To YouTube!
After conquering the world of professional wrestling, crushing the silver screen at the box office and becoming the champion of social media, FINALLY.. The ROCK has come to YOUTUBE! That’s right, Dwayne Johnson builds on his superstar appeal and the millions (and millions) of hits on his Instagram and Twitter pages by launching his very own […]
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Nintendo Cancels Wii U TVii Launch in UK and Europe
Nintendo has announced its decision not to launch the long anticipated TVii service for Wii U in the UK and Europe. Via the Nintendo Europe website the company puts this unexpected and unfortunate change of plan down to “the extremely complex nature of localising multiple television services across a diverse range of countries with varied […]
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Sky Invest in Pluto.TV – Does This Mean New Things For Sky Go?
US online video service Pluto.TV have recently had a significant investment from the well-known company Sky. The investment cost Sky half a million dollars and all for Pluto.TV’s expertise in streamed content and further information on multi-platform TV viewing. You’d be forgiven for not having heard of Pluto.TV if you’re from the UK as it […]
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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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Virgin Media and Sky Extend HD Deal – All channels but Sky Atlantic coming to Virgin
Virgin Media and BskyB have extended their current lease of Sky channels in a new 5 year deal that will see all of Sky’s dedicated channels, Excluding Sky Atlantic, and their full HD counterparts available on the Cable service for the first time. The deal is a 5 Year extension on the current contract, but […]
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BBC Confirms closure of BBC Three by Autumn 2015
The BBC has today confirmed that it will be closing the BBC Three channel by Autumn 2015 if the plans are agreed to by the BBC Trust. Yesterday news broke that in a bid to save £100 million in funds from the BBC budget, the Beeb was looking to shut down the youth-orientated BBC channel […]
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BBC Three channel to close and move to iPlayer only service
The BBC has outlined some controversial cost cutting plans today that will see the very popular BBC Three channel get the axe, with its content being moved online to the BBC iPlayer platform. The BBC’s media correspondent David Sillito has said that an official statement about the BBC Three plans will be announced on Thursday […]
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YouTube launches paid subscription channels with 53 premium channels trialled
Last night YouTube announced what many of us expected to happen; it will be introducing a subscriptions for certain premium channels in an attempt to rival the likes of LoveFilm and Netflix. YouTube will start off the subscription program with a pilot system which will feature a small group of partners that can offer subscriptions […]
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BBC HD channel gets the boot, gets replaced by BBC Two HD
New HD channel coming to all TV services
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Google to launch YouTube TV channel through Freesat TV service
Coming at the end of this month
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BBC to Bring Live Rewind Function to iPlayer Digital Service
BBC has announced a new function to its live digital television service. Soon not only will you be able to catch-up with the best of the past seven days and check out some classic series with iPlayer but you’ll also be able to rewind live telly to view the bits you might have missed. This […]
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Celebrate the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee with Her Majesty’s Favourite Gadgetry!
With the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee next Tuesday and the Great Britain currently covering literally everything with Union Jack colours ready to celebrate her impressive 60 years on the throne (our record is closer to 60 minutes) the Gadget Helpline’s officially and reluctantly bequeathed Royal Correspondent will help you discover Her Majesty’s favourite gadgetry and tech […]