While the BBC have recently announced a partnership with NHK to screen select events of the 2012 Olympic Games in ‘Super Hi-Vision’, another co-operation agreement from Japan is most likely being formed with Olympic sponsor Panasonic, who are confirming that they are to assist the public broadcaster in producing the ‘first-ever live 3D Olympic Games’. Panasonic’s role as the official AV equipment supplier [...]

The BBC have revealed that three cities in the UK will get a chance to witness a new level of viewing technology next summer, as the public broadcaster reavealed their plans to operate big screens during the 2012 Olympic Games featuring Japanese-innovated ‘Super Hi-Vision’. This new technology is said to have a picture that is 16-times clearer than regular high definition (which itself is [...]

A quite low-profile fact for fans of football in England is that classic club knockout competition the FA Cup is returning this weekend at the ‘Extra Preliminary Round’ (the first of 6 qualification games, and of 14 rounds in total). Whilst this stage of the competition usually gets some novelty publicity for Wembley FC (who are based within [...]

The BBC have been green-lighted on their proposals to use the BBC Three channel’s inactive broadcasting hours on Freeview as an additional outlet for screening coverage of the 2012 Olympic Games in London (England). Because a small-capacity provider such as Freeview does not have enough bandwidth capacity to just give the hours away, another channel’s schedule had to be temporarily dropped to [...]

Two weeks after the popular annual extreme sporting event ‘The X Games’ has ended, the 3D coverage of the games has managed to find its way through to sets in the UK. The content, which is being sourced by Discovery 3D (despite being filmed by X Games owner ESPN), has become available through Virgin Media’s official VOD [...]

With the 2011-12 season of the English Premier League here, football fans will be looking forward to another exciting campaign. It is a well-known fact in the British Isles that the majority of the rights to show live games from the Premier League is signed up to Sky Sports, who are due to air 115 fixtures exclusively live [...]