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Just to follow up on the HD DVD Group's release of European "sales" figures, Sony uk's David Walstra, according to CE Daily, claims that BD discs are now outsel...
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| Nov 14, 2007
(This is an updated entry to correct a previous error and incorporate response from HD DVD Group)
The hi-def disc battle gets nastier by the day. Europe's HD DV...
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| Nov 12, 2007
When I presented to a conference of TV advertising people in Berlin three years ago, my suggestion that broadband users would be turning away from television wa...
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| Nov 12, 2007
One way of keeping people away from the video on their PC screens is to give them better television through their set-top boxes. Sky is one of the first broadc...
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| Nov 12, 2007
Most of the commentary on BT's announcement of its second quarter results focused on its BT Vision numbers - 60,000 customers - and whether this was below or on...
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| Nov 07, 2007
Sony Computer Entertainment Europe announced the latest version of its PS3 system software to allow access by PSPs to the PS3 hard drive from remote locations o...
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| Nov 01, 2007
I am bad at remembering names, so apologies to the nameless 80-year-old comedian whose joke I certainly do remember: after a long and illustrious career, he obs...
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| Nov 01, 2007
I am sure we all have our own favourite hotspot horror stories. One of my more recent experiences, about which I penned but never published several angry paragr...
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| Oct 17, 2007
One of the many nuggets offered by our latest survey digital home device markets is that more than 50 million TV homes around the world will be using a digital ...
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| Oct 17, 2007
As one country finishes its analogue switch-off, another begins. On Monday morning at 8.45am Sweden’s Culture Minister, Lena Adelsohn Liljeroth, switched off th...
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| Oct 08, 2007
As we predicted, BD player prices are plunging in time for the Christmas buying season. At €399 (£299), Sony’s new 40GB PS3 will be a tempting option for any ea...
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| Oct 02, 2007
Italy's Telecommunications minister, Paolo Gentiloni, has announced that the country's analogue switch-off date will now be 2012. This compares to the current o...
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| Sep 25, 2007
Following Sling's recent deal to distribute its Slingbox through UPC, the pan-European cable operator, announced at IBC, I drafted a comment that Sling could en...
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| Sep 11, 2007
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| Sep 11, 2007
At IBC Microsoft was giving demonstrations of Silverlight , first introduced at NAB in April. This is Microsoft's browser plug-in answer to Adobe Flash, allowin...
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| Sep 11, 2007
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| Sep 11, 2007
OpenTV's Matthew Huntington gave us an update on the company's progress at IBC. Matthew and I both go back to the early days of interactive TV, so there was som...
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| Sep 08, 2007
We met today with Gerhard Bickmann, CFO of German cable operator, Kabel BW, who spoke at NDS's annual IBC press lunch. In a one-to-one discussion, Herr Bickman ...
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| Sep 06, 2007
SES Astra's top brass, Ferdinand Kayser, President and CEO, and Alexander Oudendijk, Chief Commercial Officer, kicked off IBC tonight with an update to press an...
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