Today sees the launch of Freeview's first national television ad campaign to promote Freeview+, the platforms digital TV recorders, featuring a stellar cast of British TV talent.
Thanks to the freesat team who are exibiting at the Stuff Live exibition in London, PVR Junction were treated to a hands on look at the new FOXSAT-HDR in action.
Since publishing both the specifications of the FOXSAT-HDR on our Freesat PVR Comparison table in August, and a few development screen shots and photos, we've received a ton of emails from readers, and some publications, asking for more details.
Sky today unveiled a new collection of Sky+HD Designer Boxes, featuring exclusive and quite distinctive prints from four of the UK’s most visionary designers and image makers. The new collection combines the creative talents emerging designer Henry Holland of House of Holland; cutting edge duo PPQ; exquisite and luxury designer Erdem and avant-garde fashion illustrator Julie Verhoeven.
Panasonic have decided the UK version of its twin HD tuner, 500GB and built in blu-ray recorder, will be tailored for satellite rather than Freeview. Discussions with Freesat took place this summer. Freesat will be introducing Freesat+ next month - its digital recorder platform - which includes advanced recording features. Humax is providing the first available high definition twin tuner PVR with Freesat+ branding around the same time.
02 December 2008
The United Kingdom is the first European nation to adopt digital video recorders (DVRs) in significant numbers, according to international research firm Parks Associates’ new study Entertainment 2.0 in Europe.
02 December 2008
A lorry driver asleep in his cab in a Northampton lay-by was tied up by raiders who stole thousands of pounds worth of Humax digital TV recorders.
24 November 2008
The Humax Foxsat-HDR went on sale at the end of last week with home deliveries already arriving at homes since early Monday morning. So what can you expect to find when opening the box? Thanks to our enthusiastic readers, we have a little unboxing video to share, and photos of the box contents.
06 November 2008
Unlike traditional satellite installations, which require a unique cable for each tuner from the satellite dish to the set-top box, Entropic's CSS chipsets enable multiple video streams from individual or multiple satellites into the home over a single cable.
06 November 2008
Today sees the launch of Freeview's first national television ad campaign to promote Freeview+, the platforms digital TV recorders, featuring a stellar cast of British TV talent.
31 October 2008
Thanks to the freesat team who are exibiting at the Stuff Live exibition in London, PVR Junction were treated to a hands on look at the new FOXSAT-HDR in action.
30 October 2008
The FOXSAT-HDR remote control has had one or two recent adjustments to layout, and one of the first things to notice is the multifunction capabilities in the top part of controller. Earlier this week on PVR Junction we revealed the remote control accompanying the new Freesat+ recorder, minus close-up shots while one or two alterations [...]
25 October 2008
Since publishing both the specifications of the FOXSAT-HDR on our Freesat PVR Comparison table in August, and a few development screen shots and photos, we've received a ton of emails from readers, and some publications, asking for more details.
24 October 2008
Panasonic have been in contact with PVR Junction this morning to provide further information about Blu-Ray recorder developments. The electronics giant are currently studying how to come into the UK market with blu-ray high definition recorders, and they do find the Freesat platform today as having the most potential.
17 October 2008
A Wotsat blog article today says Panasonic have advised that the CE company do not have Freesat recorder plans to reveal at present. This is the same statement PVR Junction and other online publishers have received this week from Panasonic UK. Our advise, like last week, is to do like us and wait for any [...]
17 October 2008
Football World Cup, Hollyoaks, Lewis and Films to be in HD Ofcom has today announced its decision to reserve capacity for Channel 4 together with Welsh-language broadcaster S4C, and to Channel 3 licensees (ITV plc, Channel TV, stv and UTV) to broadcast new High Definition (HD) services on digital terrestrial television (DTT). The announcement follows a tender [...]
15 October 2008
Sky today unveiled a new collection of Sky+HD Designer Boxes, featuring exclusive and quite distinctive prints from four of the UK’s most visionary designers and image makers. The new collection combines the creative talents emerging designer Henry Holland of House of Holland; cutting edge duo PPQ; exquisite and luxury designer Erdem and avant-garde fashion illustrator Julie Verhoeven.
14 October 2008
Humax has joined IMPALA - the International MHEG Promotion Alliance. IMPALA promotes the widespread adoption of MHEG-5 for interactive digital TV by broadcasters around the world. MHEG-5 is a cost-effective and efficient, public standard interactive TV middleware that is used to both send and receive interactive TV signals. It allows a wide range of TV-centric interactive [...]
11 October 2008
Panasonic have decided the UK version of its twin HD tuner, 500GB and built in blu-ray recorder, will be tailored for satellite rather than Freeview. Discussions with Freesat took place this summer. Freesat will be introducing Freesat+ next month - its digital recorder platform - which includes advanced recording features. Humax is providing the first available high definition twin tuner PVR with Freesat+ branding around the same time.
11 October 2008
Not long ago Gizmodo produced an interesting article about the history of the Tivo remote control. The post was made together with co-operation from Tivo and Paul Newby (remote creator) and talks about its development, as well as giving away a few future hints. This is what Paul Newby had to say when Gizmodo asked about [...]
10 October 2008
Conceptronic presents the Media Titan, a wireless 300 Mbps 11n HD media player and hard disk recorder with twin DVB-T tuners inside.
26 September 2008
During our conversations with Humax today we took the opportunity to ask them about the fan fitted to their PVR-9300t and PVR-9150t model; and its good news.
19 September 2008
If you own an LCD or Plasma TV the chances are it has a slot on the side or back. Neotion has just announced a credit card sized PVR that simply goes into that slot, enabling you to pause and rewind live TV, or record TV programmes.
15 September 2008
Freesat, the joint venture between the BBC and ITV offering free, digital satellite television service, has won a close fought race to be declared the winner of the Pace/DTG ‘Best Contribution to Digital TV in the UK’ award. The Award, created by the Digital TV Group, the industry association for digital TV in the UK, and [...]
