Japanese technology giant Toshiba have announced their intention of cancelling all local production of flat-screen television sets in a bid to cut the company’s expenditure and focus on other projects. Outlining plans to be working on an ’operating profit’ of 450b yen ($3.5bn) at the end of 2014-15 (double that of their current figures), hope to reach their goal by mainly operating in [...]
The BBC are going to town with their live Olympic coverage which will be fed through 24 new HD channels accessed via the BBC red button service and it will also be available on Sky and Freesat as well as live streaming on the BBC website. Now you can watch any sport’s event throughout the [...]
A new network launched in Japan is becoming notable for the main reason that it is a TV platform that is not available on TV. Being operated by mmbi Inc., the three-channel service called NOTTV, launched on Sunday, is applicable to smartphone and tablet services in HD. The channels are thought to have been made possible mainly by bandwidth [...]
London (UK)-based department store Harrods have launched an exclusive deal with Panasonic to celebrate the opening on their new in-store ’technology department’, with a new monster 152-inch TV range (9 times the physical size of a 50-inch set) produced by the Japanese company now on sale in Harrods on what is most likely to be a limited-time offer. Featuring an HD capability [...]
Viewers of Freeview TV channels in the UK may be excited to hear that a TV app for Android and iPad has been released, unfortunately it comes minus any streaming content though. The app follows the iPhone app which was launched last August. The app is essentially a TV Guide that gives your basic app features [...]
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 [...]
