If you’re quick, and thinking of getting Sky’s HD TV service, this is the time to do it. For some time now, Sky’s been offering Marks and Spencer vouchers as an incentive to sign up with Sky online. Until recently, you could pick up £25 worth of M & S vouchers, but from now until [...]

Some Freeview channel news to report: Channel 5 HD to launch on Freeview In the recent bidding for the fifth HD channel on the Freeview platform, only one channel submitted a bid, and that was Channel 5. It appears that regulator OfCom has granted Channel 5 the licence, and we can expect Channel 5 HD [...]

We understand that plans may be afoot to extend coverage of the UK TV licence to cover Internet-based catch-up TV services, such as the BBC iPlayer. Currently, it’s law that those in the UK pay £145.50 a year to be able to watch (or record) broadcast TV shows. In addition to TV sets and recorders, [...]

SeeSaw, the video-on-demand Internet TV service that promised “a great place to watch TV”, has closed. The service launched in 2010, offering a mix of TV content from the BBC, Channel 4 and Channel 5 that could be viewed over the Internet. SeeSaw was originally formed from a proposed service codenamed Project Kangaroo, which was [...]