Sky Anytime+ now available to millions more homes

Sky has announced today that its Anytime+ on-demand service is now available to all Sky homes with a broadband-connected Sky+HD set-top box. Prior to today’s move, only Sky Broadband customers could use the service. But now the service can... Read More »

BBC iPlayer finally comes to Xbox 360 console

Well, it’s taken its own sweet time, but Microsoft has finally managed to jump through all the necessary hoops and has got the BBC iPlayer up and running on its Xbox 360 console. And actually, it might just be... Read More »
20 March 2012 | Hardware News, News | , , , | No Comments   

Full details on Panasonic’s 2012 TV range

As well as our recent stories about Panasonic’s first passive 3D TVs and new large-screen LED TVs, we though you’d probably be interested in getting the details of Panasonic’s full TV range for 2012. So here goes… On the... Read More »

Panasonic adds its first big-screen LCD TVs to its 2012 range

Panasonic’s decision to add passive 3D TVs to its 2012 TV range wasn’t the only unexpected development on show at the brand’s recent Hamburg convention. For Panasonic also revealed that it’s no longer sticking with its long-held philosophy whereby... Read More »
02 March 2012 | Hardware News, News | , , , , , , | No Comments   

Panasonic launches passive 3D TVs

At a recent launch event in Hamburg, Panasonic swallowed its pride in surprising but actually welcome fashion by announcing its debut range of passive 3D TVs. This is no half-hearted to-dip into passive 3D waters by the previously active-only... Read More »

Virgin Media delivers more than a billion on-demand TV views in 2011

As we’d expected would be the case, the introduction of the Virgin Media TiVo receiver has led to an explosion in the popularity of ‘personalised’ TV viewing. According to figures released by Virgin, more than a billion TV On... Read More »
28 February 2012 | Hardware News, News | , , | No Comments   

Samsung buys Sony out of LCD joint venture

Talk about unfortunate timing. For just a week after Sony’s new UK TV product manager proudly reminded us during a meeting that Sony doesn’t just buy its LCD panels from Samsung but rather has a joint venture with them... Read More »
26 December 2011 | Hardware News, News | | No Comments   

Broken Skyrim patch patched

Good news today for anyone as obsessed with Skyrim as we are. Bethesda has finally issued to consoles a patch which appears to fix the bugs introduced by its previous patch a couple of weeks ago. The required update... Read More »

Microsoft admits Xbox LIVE hacks not just related to phishing

A couple of weeks ago there was a flurry of press reports – including one in The Sun, no less – about people having their Xbox 360 Live accounts hacked. Microsoft claimed then that this problem was a result... Read More »
07 December 2011 | Hardware News, News | , , , | No Comments   

Xbox Live update brings major new features, with new video services also inbound

Due to hit your Xbox any moment now is a new update that promises to add some pretty exciting new features to the Xbox Live service. Particularly welcome is the facility to store game saves on a cloud, so... Read More »