The ’soft launch’ of BBC iPlayer on Virgin Media happened a few weeks ago with it being available through the red button from any on-air BBC channel. From next week a BBC iPlayer channel will be added to the Virgin Media EPG. The news comes from an official Virgin Media press release (click here). The [...]
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The new interactive dating & chat service from Teletext – ‘Rabbit’ – has launched on Freeview channel 102. The channel used to be home to Teletext Cars but was renamed to ‘Rabbit’ on the EPG recently. The ‘Rabbit’ service has now launched. The service enables viewers to text in and get their messages put on-screen [...]
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Updates are rolling out to Virgin Media set top boxes at the moment. These updates are for standard set top boxes (the ‘V’ boxes) – ‘V+’ boxes got upgraded a while back. The application version my set top box is now running is ‘13.100.1_ukcable’ (ex-NTL area). To get the update, you should just need to [...]
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The proposed pay TV service from Sky called ‘Picnic’ doesn’t look likely to launch on DTT anytime soon as the Ofcom consultation continues, and delays any plans. If ‘Picnic’ were to launch, it would replace their existing free channels on Digital Terrestrial and they would likely be replaced by Sky One, Sky Movies and Sky [...]
Tags: digital terrestrial, pay tv, sky picnic
Teletext Cars – the interactive service from Teletext – has been removed and replaced with a placeholder message for the new interactive dating service ‘Rabbit’ on channel 102. ‘Rabbit’ is thought to be launching this month. Teletext Cars had been dormant on Freeview for a while.
Tags: Freeview, interactive, rabbit, teletext, teletext cars
BBC Parliament will be temporarily removed from Freeview for the duration of the 2008 Olympic Games this August. The freed-up video stream will mean more Olympic coverage can be provided for Freeview viewers. MediaGuardian is reporting “BBC Parliament’s Freeview capacity will be used to enhance the quality of the interactive TV streaming the BBC is [...]
Tags: bbc parliament, Freeview, olympics 2008, sport
The Setanta Sport channels are free for the entire Bank Holiday weekend (2nd-5th May). You must be subscribed to the M or L TV package for this offer. XL TV customers already get them for free, so they will see no change. The Setanta channels are, Setanta Sports 1, Setanta Sports 2, Celtic TV, Rangers [...]
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