Archive for March, 2011


Roku XD Streaming Set-Top Box Goes Mainstream

Fans of the popular Roku XD, the HD streaming set-top box are now able to buy the box from Best Buy stores across the Country. Previously Roku had online been available to buy online and marks their first entry into real stores. Roku is a simple box that pulls in streaming content to viewers tv [...]

Charlie Sheen Back To Improvise

Troubled star Charlie Sheen’s first return to a TV show is looking unlikely to be back on his well-paid role at CBS sitcom Two And a Half Men, or on Fox Sports’ MLB baseball coverage, or even a conversion of his weird and wonderful web series, instead being shown in a more low-key series which has already been filmed. GSN have [...]

Crackle Brings More Free Movies To More Hardware

Viewers on a tight budget can forget about paying for streaming movies and watch Crackle’s range of movies free. crackle owned by Sony lets viewers watch a range of ‘older’ shall we say, movies on a number of different devices that now includes the PS3 console and Roku box. Crackle which can be seen by [...]

iPlayer Service Website Outage Leaves Viewers In Dark

iPlayer viewers were in the dark last night as network problems saw the BBC websites having a total outage, of both its news site and catch up tv iPlayer site along with other BBC web sites and services. This disruption lasted for approximatly an hour on Tuesday evening. The BBC admitted that it has had [...]

France Serve 17000 Catch Up Streams In December

The French are digging their catch up tv services, and a report shows that seventeen thousand streams from free to view tv networks in France were viewed in December 2010. The study carried out for the French film and TV institute by TV-replay.fr shows that by far and away the most popular streams were news [...]

Mad Men To Renew After Year And A Half Break

A long-awaited announcement for fans of the hit 1960′s-based drama Mad Men has revealed that the upcoming fifth season of the show is set to premiere in March 2012, meaning that there will have been a 17-month gap separating it from the last new episode. Ongoing negotiations between Mad Men creator (and executive producer) Matt Weiner, and network AMC in association with [...]