Monthly Archives: February 2009

High definition TV is going mainstream, as costs come down and interest in HDTV broadens beyond the clique of early adopters and the well healed. Recent research commissioned by Sky and YouGov reveals that 96% of people are now aware of… Read the rest...

Data released by Virgin Media last week shows that 52% of their 3.5 million digital TV customers regularly used their on-demand TV services in 2008. As a result Virgin Media’s on demand system clocked up an amazing 16m views in 2008, with… Read the rest...

Sky has said that up to 90,000 Sky+HD boxes will have to be replaced after their manufacturer, Pace, indentified a fault. The fault is likely to affect about 10% of all SkyHD+ customers with the replacement process taking up to three months. A spokesman for Read the rest...

Twenty years on from its launch, Sky recently announced plans to accelerate its push into high definition TV (HDTV) The announcement coincided with the reduction in the price of the Sky+HD box is to £49. The announcement came as Read the rest...

The big loser from the recent FAPL rights auction appears to be Setanta Sports.They currently have the rights to show two FAPL packages of games: the Monday night games and the Saturday afternoon package. After last week’s auction they were outbid for the Monday night games by Sky.So from the… Read the rest...