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SeeSaw TV Review (UK Online TV Service)
February 19, 2010
SeeSaw is a combination of already popular online TV services from BBC, C4 and FIVE. I believe this idea to have a great amount of potential when it comes to attracting visitors. With some good publicity and strong marketing, I’m pretty sure people would be swayed towards it for the simple reason that everything is in one place.
Given the choice, I think everyone would prefer it all to be on one site rather than having to flick between separate services from each channel – which was one of the driving forces behind the Kangaroo online TV service which got cancelled before launch, SeeSaw is what has been created from the ashes of that service.
But that’s just an idea, a principle, a basis to build upon. The real question is, how have they executed it? Well, after testing the site for a while over the past couple of days since it’s public release (after previously having tested out the SeeSaw TV Online beta), I have found the site to be an interesting addition to the UK online streaming TV landscape.
Continue reading »Boxee Box & Remote Control (QWERTY Keyboard)
January 21, 2010
If you’re a Boxee user, you’re going to love this little accessory that wasn’t given much attention alongside the new Boxee Box at CES! You may have guessed that I’m referring to the newly developed remote that you use with the Boxee set-top box, which not only includes your standard media buttons, but a full QWERTY keyboard on the back!
When using a system such as Boxee, navigation can sometimes be awkward, especially with lots of content. With the QWERTY keyboard built in to the remote, you’ll now be able to quickly search through your media content and find what you’re looking for in seconds, this is definitely something that I’d like to see more of as typing with a numberpad seems to take forever!
Continue reading »SeeSaw Online TV Service Beta – Register Now! (UK)
January 20, 2010
SeeSaw is an upcoming online TV service that will be launched in the UK in the next few months which will be aiming to provide its users with a variety of content, including British programming as well as international shows such as those from the US. SeeSaw will be presented in a high quality viewing platform which should allow viewers to enjoy a wide variety of popular TV programming on-demand, presumably in an iPlayer straming video kind of presentation.
Real Player SP Review (How To Record Streaming Video)
November 23, 2009
Hold back the vomit; it’s time for Real Player SP!
If you’re like me, something happened in your teenage years, when you lost your mind through a combination of hormones and white cider, and decided that it would be a good idea to install Real Player on your computer.
Back in the age of Netscape, when .rm (and all the other) files were competing equally with every other format out there, it was quite a reasonable, even necessary thing to have Real Player installed. Of course, that was then and this is now. With the advent of VLC Media Player and similar cross-platform products, Real’s stranglehold over the .rm genus of increasingly insignificant file types has all but disappeared.
Continue reading »BBC iPlayer (UK)
August 5, 2008
Having recently put together a new Home Theatre PC (HTPC), I’ve been looking at the various options that I have with new TV entertainment services, the latest of which is the BBC’s iPlayer UK service.
It seems to have taken a while in actually arriving as I’m sure that this service was first talked about a year or two back, so I wasn’t entirely sure what to expect from it, especially after having already tried the Channel 4 On Demand application that downloads TV shows – however this isn’t always free and the fact that they were charging for something I could see for free on the TV wasn’t something that I was too happy about.
The BBC iPlayer comes in two different formats;
- a streaming online service accessable through the BBC website.
- a downloadable application which downloads the shows prior to viewing.
