Probably the favorite pastime in the UK and an increasing number of nations throughout the world, watching TV is becoming something of a global phenomenon. With advances in home entertainment technology, numerous clunky remotes have emerged as the norm, sometimes requiring a small textbook to understand and effectively navigate the various controls and options. Google TV update adds voice search ... Read More »

Sony announced this week that it has developed the world’s first complete ultra HD entertainment system that is capable of delivering native 4K content out of the box, cementing the Japanese brand’s reputation as the leading advocate in the TV industry’s slow but inevitable movement towards ultra high-definition resolution. Sony’s 84-inch 4K TV to ship with free feature-length ultra HD ... Read More »

BBC Worldwide, the UK public service broadcaster’s commercial arm, has launched a new digital nature YouTube channel, which is also the organisation’s first ever original-content channel on the popular video streaming platform. Dubbed “Earth Unplugged“, the channel will exclusively broadcast a variety of new programmes filmed by BBC Earth Productions, the global natural history brand of BBC Worldwide. BBC launches ... Read More »

Ever watched something on TV and wanted to know what programme you were watching right at that very minute? Perhaps you’ve listened to the radio, wondering what the name of that song is. A new service being trialed by the BBC – dubbed “Radiotagbot” – is helping thousands of people in this similar plight, by providing identification and bookmarking services ... Read More »

A new report released by market research firm YouGov today has revealed that only one in ten Brits have the intention of buying a Smart TV over the course of 2013. This is despite the fact that more than half of people in the United Kingdom (55 percent to be precise) have some sort of internet connectivity running to their ... Read More »