Here at Radio & Telly, we’re seeing increasing interest in the YouView TV offering – the service that combines Freeview, a hard-disc recorder, and extra content on your TV via Broadband. YouView’s available to buy on the high-street, or you can get a free box from BT or TalkTalk If you’re keen to get hold [...]

Four years of fun and games with the Digital TV Switchover is coming to an end at last… we don’t want to worry you… but there might be another one on the way… Digital Switchover Mk II OK – Nothing to worry about just yet, but according to a report in the Guardian, the House [...]

Finally, YouView boxes are now available, but at £299, we’re not sure how many folk will be dashing out this weekend to buy one. The first box to be released is the Humax DTR-T1000, and here’s what it offers: Humax DTR-T1000 Humax DTR-T1000 is a combined Freeview receiver, HDD recorder and Internet TV box. As [...]

Broadband provider TalkTalk is set to re-enter the digital TV market, offer a combined Freeview plus Internet TV service. After having suspended its last TV service (originally Tiscali TV) to new customers last year, TalkTalk has unwrapped details of the new offering. As one of the partners of the YouView project, they will be offering [...]

Launch plans for the combined Freeview and Internet service YouView have been announced today, Wednesday the 4th of July 2012.   What will YouView offer? The new box will let you watch and record the existing Freeview channels, and let you access catch-up TV over Internet from BBC, ITV, Channel 4 and Channel 5. Sound [...]

The Connect TV service appears to have now launched on the Freeview platform, offering an extra 45 channels of TV. Connect TV has had a number of placeholder channels active between channels 110 and 116 for a while, and some of the services switched on February. It seems that the initial offering has been finalised, [...]

The online TV service, Fetch TV, has just gone into administration. The Fetch TV service started in 2008 and has been trying to make its place in the crowded Video-on-Demand space for some time. It looks like this week, it has lost its battle as the service owners IP Vision have called in UHY Hacker [...]

Netflix launched in the UK today, Monday the 9th of January 2012, with plans to shake up the online movie and TV rental market. Netflix is a big deal in the US, and they appear to be hoping for big things from the UK market. What Netflix offers A simple proposition – movies and TV [...]

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 [...]

We’re getting a number of enquiries about the mysterious appearance of three new channels on Freeview: Channel 110 – Vision Channel 111 – Connect Channel 112 – Stream The on-screen caption reports that these are new channels coming soon to Freeview HD. At first glance, the idea of three new HD channels coming to Freeview [...]

Sky’s new mobile TV and on-demand service launched recently. Today, the Sky Go iPhone and iPad application has gone live. With this new application, you can watch the following live TV channels: Sport: Sky Sports 1, Sky Sports 2, Sky Sports 3, Sky Sports 4, Sky Sports News and ESPN Movies: Sky Movies Premiere, Sky [...]

Sky is set to launch a new service, Sky Go, on the 6th of July 2011 The service will pull together Sky’s TV-over-Internet service Sky Player, with its mobile TV offering, allowing existing Sky customers to be able to watch live TV on their desktop and laptop computers, as well as on smartphones and tablet [...]

If you’re not aware of the name Seesaw, it’s an online TV service that lets you watch TV shows from the BBC, Channel 4 and Five, for free. And the future of SeeSaw is in the balance. The service, which offers 3,500 hours of free to view TV content, first launched in 2010. It was [...]

Second Generation Apple TV boxes got the second software update of the month on the 22nd of March 2011. The update to version 4.2.1 addresses an issue where some viewers may have experienced a screen flicker, where the box would fail to wake up once it had done to sleep (we know the feeling), and [...]

YouView, the much-delayed Freeview plus Internet service, has acquired the services of Lord Alan Sugar. Lord Sugar becomes the non-executive chairman of the venture, replacing Kip Meek. The YouView service, which was due to launch in 2010 is now aiming for a 2012 launch (in time for the Olympics). The project is a joint venture between [...]

We’re just a few days away from one of the year’s hot events for horseracing fans – the 100th Cheltenham Festival. For those not able to make it, here’s details of how to watch the action. The Cheltenham Festival takes place from Tuesday the 15th to Friday the 18th of March 2011. The first day, [...]

YouView, formerly known as Project Canvas, is reportedly set to be delayed until 2012. The service that combines Freeview (for live TV), with on-demand content over the Internet, was originally set to launch in 2010, but was pushed back to a predicted launch of “mid 2011″. According to various online sites, its been hit by [...]

It looks like the adult entertainment service NookieTV is set to end from Saturday 15th May 2010. The Nookie TV service was supplied with a Nookie TV Box, which was a small Internet-enabled set-top box. Plug one end into the Internet, and the other end into the TV, and you could access, on subscription, adult [...]

if you’re looking to hook yourself up to BT Vision for thousands of hours of on-demand TV and films on your telly, then you can get yourself a free BT Vision V+ Box until the 26th of March 2010. In case you’re not familiar with BT Vision, this is a TV service that lets you [...]