Broadband, TV and smart home technology
The Blu-ray Disc Association has rubber stamped specs for 4K Ultra HD discs – and released a new logo. After months of consideration the BDA…
It’s that time again! We’re giving away a 32-inch Toshiba TV in our latest competition with our friends at TalkTalk. Toshiba’s 32D3453DB 720p HD smart…
The UK Government has announced that its BDUK scheme has put superfast broadband within reach of 2.5 million more homes and businesses. According to official…
The second season of True Detective will kick off on Sky Atlantic on Monday, June 22. The new eight-episode series moves the action from Louisiana…
A Twitch channel is now available for Roku players, letting gamers tune in to the exploits of players from around the globe. As well as…
TalkTalk is planning to connect its first customers to ultrafast fibre broadband, providing speeds of up to 1Gbps (1,000Mbps) this year. The latest set of…
It’s competition time again folks! We’re giving away a shiny new 16GB WiFi-only Apple iPad Mini 3 with our friends at Sky. Apple’s latest mini…
TalkTalk TV has announced that it’ll be getting the first four seasons of Game of Thrones this summer. Individual episodes and entire seasons of from…
London Live will live up to its name by broadcasting live coverage of Field Day and We Are FSTVL this summer. The capital’s local TV…
We’ve been able to get an early look at Freeview Play, a mixture of linear and on-demand TV that’s launching later this year. Sadly,…
Plans to decriminalise non-payment of the licence fee are to be sped up, according to David Cameron’s spokesperson. The Conservative party, which pledged to keep…
Two more seasons of Victorian-era cop show Ripper Street have been commissioned by Amazon. Following successful reception of the third series, which was picked up…
Virgin Media’s cloud service now lets TiVo customers stream movies from their online lockers. The newly-revamped Virgin Media Cloud service gives customers a free 5GB…
It’ll be a while yet before we get 4K channels on Freeview, but we know they’re in the pipeline – because we’ve seen one. At…
Dutch start-up Angie has announced intentions to launch 10Gbps fibre broadband and so-called ‘5G wireless’ services in the UK. Though its services aren’t due to…
Freesat doubled the number of sign ups to its Freetime smart TV service in the first quarter of 2015 compared to a year ago. The…
Rural-centric fibre ISP Gigaclear has secured funding which will speed-up the rollout of its ultrafast networks. The company has trousered £20 million from Prudential and…
If you’re sold on the idea of getting a smart watch because you think they’ll turn you into some sort of connected Casanova, think again. …
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