Posted June 30th, 2008 by Paul
Warner TV content has been added to the Top Up TV Anytime service. Programmes such as The West Wing and Nip/Tuck will be available. Up to 14 hours worth of Warner TV content will be available on Top Up TV Anytime.
Tags: Top Up TV, top up tv anytime, warner tv
Posted June 24th, 2008 by Paul
The sports section on the Freeview BBC interactive service has been improved. When you press red from any BBC channel, you can now select Sport Home which takes you to a new and improved section. The section now links to the BBCi video streams for Interactive video services and tells you what’s on now so [...]
Tags: bbc, Freeview, interactive, sport
Posted June 6th, 2008 by Paul
BBC iPlayer is now integrated into the Virgin Media On Demand menus. All BBC programmes On Demand now use the iPlayer versions of recordings. If you go to All Channels in the Catch Up TV section and choose iPlayer it just loads the red button version of the BBC iPlayer. If you go to All [...]
Tags: bbc iplayer, on demand, Virgin Media
Posted June 3rd, 2008 by Paul
The Virgin Media owned TV channels (commonly known as the VMTV channels) are now widescreen. The channels had always been 4:3 but have finally made the leap into 16:9 format. VMTV channels include Virgin 1, Challenge, Living and Bravo. UKTV channels made the switch to widescreen a few months ago. This change also affects other [...]
Tags: Freeview, Virgin Media, vmtv, widescreen
Posted June 2nd, 2008 by Paul
A new radio station has been added to the Virgin Media lineup today. NME Radio is now available on channel 975 on Virgin TV. You may need to restart your set top box to see this new addition.
Tags: nme radio, radio, Virgin Media
Posted June 2nd, 2008 by Paul
The Jewellery Channel on Freeview channel 44 has ceased broadcasting. It had been available on Freeview for the past six months. Channel 44 is now just a placeholder. It’s not known what (if anything) will replace the channel. One popular view is that Nuts TV could take the additional space and start broadcasting at 7pm [...]
Tags: Freeview, nuts tv, the jewellery channel