Setanta on Sky - Exclusive online offer

August 2008 - the start of the 2008/9 Barclays Premier. There's also the England qualifiers and pre-season friendlies.

If you'll be watching the action on Sky - we've found a handy offer - Get two months of Setanta Sport for just £6.50.

To take advantage, use the special promotional code of 2650 online at www.setanta.com - Offer code valid for a limited time only.

Eurosport now on Sky HD

Eurosport has joined the High Definition channel lineup on Sky, bringing the count to 19 HD channels. You can get Eurosport without having to sign to Sky's premium sports package. Eurosport is on channel 412.

Sky's also recently dropped the price of its HD service. More on Sky HD

Setanta Sport free with BT Vision

With the 2008 Premier League around the corner, BT's digital TV service, BT Vision has upped the stakes in the TV sports wars by throwing Setanta Sports into their TV packages, for free.

Setanta offers 46 live Barclays Premier League football games, 60 live Clydesdale Bank Premier League games, live action from every round of the FA Cup, crucial home nations World Cup qualifiers, live US PGA Tour Golf, live World Championship boxing and a host of other top-flight sport.

The Vision packages start from £14 per month - just under half the price of Sky?s equivalent package - there's a stack of on-demand content available, and no compulsory subscription.

More details: BT Broadband Customer? or Non-BT Broadband Customer? or

Star Fleet - Finally on DVD

OK - pure self-indulgience, and this will probably mean nothing to most of our readers, but we're excited. A TV classic from our misspent youth is coming out on DVD at last.

Star Fleet X Bomber was a 1980's kid sci-fi series, with a bunch of puppets onboard an experimental battleship called the X Bomber, defending earth from a fairly flaky alien. Add an odd crew, a hero, a princess and a robot, and you have a classic sci-fi series loved by many kids of the 80's. It's finally out on DVD - from 1st September 2008, and can be pre-ordered at Amazon.co.uk and Play.com

Freeview: Bin your Box

Freeview transmitters are being updated, and thousands of Freeview boxes pack up in the process.

Boxes made by Daewoo, Bush, Labgear, Portland and Triax boxes are affected, at the moment in Scotland, Tyne Tees, Northern Ireland and Birmingham areas are the first to pack up - with the rest of the UK set to following in coming weeks.

Full details at www.frequencycast.co.uk/freeviewlandfill.html

Freeview boxes in Scotland go dark

Thousands of Freeview set-top boxes in Scotland have suddenly become obsolete, after a transmitter upgrade. The same thing happened in the Birmingham area a couple of months back.


Affected boxes include: Daewoo DS608P , Daewoo SV900 , Labgear DTT100 , Portland DP100 and the Triax DVB2000T, which apparently lack enough internal memory to hold the full list of Freeview channels.

The story broke in the Daily Record 5 July 2008, and includes a quite from this site.

There are believed to be between 200,000 and 350,000 affected boxes in the UK, and as the transmitter networks get upgraded ready for the Digital Switchover, more and more boxes are set to beome landfill fodder

SKy+ HD Big price drop

Sky Digital has today announced a drop in price for their HD set-top box (combined HD receiver and Sky+ box).

The box, formerly priced £249, is now available for £150. The 18 HD services will cost you £10 a month

Details of Sky's HD service can be found on our Sky+ HD page.