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Counting the cost of setting accountants on the BBC |Media |The Observer

Broadcasting House, the traditional headquarters of BBC radio broadcasting in London, recently underwent large-scale refurbishment. Some BBC building projects refurbishment of Broadcasting House, say aren't harmed by outside scrutiny. Auditing the BBC isn't like assessing hospital bureaucracy costs or Whitehall transfer bills. - guardian.co.uk

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Google TV Coming to a Set Top Near You! | AndroidGuys

Set top boxes are nothing new to media savvy homes, and are increasing in popularityso to see Google branching into this realm does not surprise me. What does, however, is the fact that they are working with Sony, who arguably has a moderately successful media player out already, called the PS3. Whatever the motivation for Sony to work with Google, it is an exciting development both for the Android platform, and for media enthusiasts who have gone to an a la carte method of consuming their media. - androidguys.com

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Media Talk: The big TV debate and Mark Damazer leaves Radio 4

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Sagem becomes Sagemcom as company reveals stylish Freeview HD recorders

Extras like 1080p upscaling, subtitles and parental control locks are also onboard. The Sagemcom Freeview HD receivers also look the part, with their stylish glossy black exterior and compact design. Of course, where the Sagemcom tuners really shine is with their Freeview HD reception. - news.idealo.co.uk

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Premier League to fight Ofcoms ruling on Sky -Premier League, Football - The Independent

Sky has a 1bn deal to show exclusive live games from the Premier League and the League fears its ability to attract such lucrative future deals will be damaged by Ofcom's decision. Anything that diminishes that investment will be bad for the game and bad for sports fans as a whole. The Premier League is expected to discuss the action with other sporting bodies, but it has no plans to mount a joint action. - independent.co.uk

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We get the S4C we deserve |Media |guardian.co.uk

Photograph BBC S4C needs to change, not to placate enemies, but because it always has to change. It's there to provide Welsh-speakers with the services they want and need in a media market where commercial revenues are insufficient to do the job. We have never lived up to our responsibility to help S4C define what it is for in this new media age. - guardian.co.uk

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Aiptek Boombox Freeview DVD Projector | Television | Web User

It looks like a regular portable stereo but crammed inside you'll also find a Freeview receiver, DVD player and projector. Simply point it at any flat surface and you can watch TV on a screen up to 75in. If that's not enough, you'll also find an FM tuner built in and it'll happily playback CDs too. - webuser.co.uk

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S4C should consider English-language shows, says ex-BBC Wales boss |Media |guardian.co.uk

Davies called for more political scrutiny and better governance for S4C, which is a public-service broadcaster with an annual budget of about 100m funded by an index-linked government grant. The debate has also been prompted by digital switchover, with the analogue TV signal in Wales switched off last month. S4C used to broadcast English-language programming from Channel 4 on its analogue service, including Big Brother. - guardian.co.uk

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How to get the best out of HD TV

It is a selection that highlights the breadth of programming on the BBC at any one time. HD is undoubtedly buzzing this spring - take a look at any advert for anyone who sells TVs and associated boxes, or wander around your local shopping centre or supermarket. A few years ago HD was specialist television - it is now pretty much everywhere. - bbc.co.uk

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Panasonic G20 is Britains first integrated Freeview HD TV - Free UK Press Releases

For even greater clarity with motion images, Panasonic uses its own unique image-analysis technology. A contrast ratio of 5,000,0001 enables VIERA to display extremely robust blacks. THX reproduces film images exactly as the film's creators intended them. - ukpressreleases.co.uk

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TV ad revenues to jump 10 per cent -Business News, Business - The Independent

There was more good news for the beleaguered television industry as a second respected analysis group predicted that the advertising market would grow strongly this year despite the lack of visibility after the election. Enders Analysis increased its growth forecast for net TV advertising revenues for 2010 for a second time this year, raising its prediction from 4 per cent in March to 10 per cent. It did so less than a week after a rival research company, Screen Digest, raised its growth forecasts for the first half to 7 per cent. - independent.co.uk

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Jeremy Hunt: Tories would scrap BBC Trust |Media |guardian.co.uk

To contact the MediaGuardian news desk email editormediaguardian.co.uk or phone 020 3353 3857. For all other inquiries please call the main Guardian switchboard on 020 3353 2000. - guardian.co.uk

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Sky Player to be made available via Humax Freeview HD set-top boxes |Media |guardian.co.uk

Non-Sky customers need a monthly subscription to access Sky Player's live streaming and VoD content via Freeview or other platforms. To contact the MediaGuardian news desk email editormediaguardian.co.uk or phone 020 3353 3857. For all other inquiries please call the main Guardian switchboard on 020 3353 2000. - guardian.co.uk

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Digital Economy Act 2010 Anaysis

It was rushed through parliament at the last minute without proper discussion just before the election, and is widely seen as a badly conceived and badly worded Act. It is not legal advice, and I am not a lawyer. The reasons for the Act in the first place are very questionable and are driven by the music and media industries. - aaisp.net.uk

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Rutland Telecom launches the fastest fibre optic rural broadband in the UK (up to 40Mbps) The Final Third First

Lyddingtons Next Generation village broadband is a significant milestone in UK telecommunications history and is the first time the copper subloop has been fully unbundled with residents effectively being cut off from the local BT exchange and transferred to a street cabinet owned by the company and supplied by fibre optic cables. The average download speed is now 25Mbps 10-40Mbps range and residents are watching streaming HD TV via their broadband. Rutland Telecom is confident it can provide high-speed Broadband to most rural areas in the UK and if there is sufficient interest in an area, equipment maybe installed at the companys cost, alternatively a contribution is asked for towards the capital costs, sometimes by the residents or by local business or a combination of both. - finalthirdfirst.wordpress.com

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The election may have moved to the internet but politics hasnt |Media |The Guardian

It is a shame he didn't do more of this when he was a TV company PR, when some of us even sought out his personal insights, usually to no avail. It is yet another broadcast election this time with the internet thrown in as a bonus bandwidth-free conduit. The un-internetted nature of modern politics was amply demonstrated by the passage of the digital economy bill last week in parliament, where an informed, vocal group that has both knowledge of and passion about the internet was ignored by a process and an institution that apparently have neither. - guardian.co.uk

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Channel M is live on Freeview... just about - North West Media News - How-Do

Today saw the launch of Channel M onto the Freeview platform. It appeared to be an affair that was more 'half-heartedly slung together with a bit of sticky tape' as opposed to a bold statement of intent from the still Guardian Media Group-owned channel. Since then it has emerged that third parties, such as Lakes TV, will be using the platform for their own broadcasts. - how-do.co.uk

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Crossing swords over cross-platform: Apple vs. Adobe Flash, C#, and Mono | Wireless News - Betanews

It should come as no surprise to anyone that Apple is not a cross-platform tools company, nor a supporter of cross-platform technologies that would threaten to nullify Apple's baked-in advantages -- only during the years Steve Jobs was not in charge had the company even considered opening up its platforms. If you develop a Web app, it must be made for execution by iPhone's WebKit, even though WebKit is an open source rendering engine. If you develop a stand-alone app, even though it may use a standard language such as C or C, it must link to nothing else but iPhone's APIs. - betanews.com

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World at War gets high-definition makeover |Business |The Guardian

The second world war documentary is the first of Fremantle's thousands of hours of classic TV and films to go through the conversion process, which is taking nine months, and it is unlikely to be the last, according to Pete Kalhan, the company's senior vice-president of home entertainment and archive sales. First broadcast in 1973, the 26 hour-long episodes of the World At War have won numerous awards and sales have steadily increased since it was put on DVD almost a decade ago. Since its reissue in 2005, the DVD box set has sold more than 100,000 units and its highest annual sales were achieved last year at 40,000. - guardian.co.uk

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Scepticism about iPads chances of saving newspapers |Media |guardian.co.uk

Here's his rationale with Aussie figures Publishers will save the cost of printing and trucking printed newspapersmaybe 30 or 40 cents per copy printed. There will be no saving at the retail endApple and other tech companies will replace the newsagent on a similar commission basis. There will be a dramatic decline in revenue from readers. - guardian.co.uk

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LGs OLEDs to Have Freeview Tuners

TechWatch said the LG 15EL500 will include a Freeview over-the-air tuner, among its more well-known visual features. The LG 15EL9500 sports a 10 million-to-one contrast ratio that creates an extremely bright and unusually colorful picture from any viewing angle, with no backlight and therefore deeper blacks. OLED displays are also the thinnest yet this ones said to be less than 2 mm thick. - televisionbroadcast.com

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Backlash set to save 6 Music.. which will become Radio 2 extra - mirror.co.uk

It was earmarked for the axe as it costs 6million a year to run. - mirror.co.uk

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Internet provider defies digital bill |Technology |The Guardian

Internet provider TalkTalk has said it will not cooperate with measures to combat file-sharing. Photograph AFP One of the UK's three biggest internet service providers has vowed not to co-operate with measures to combat file-sharing set out in the government's controversial digital economy bill, expected to receive royal assent within days. That could spell trouble for Wikileaks, which carries copyrighted material supplied by whistleblowers, such as the US Army video released last week showing the killing of Iraqi civilians. - guardian.co.uk

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meeb (I wrote to my MP two weeks ago regarding my shock...)

I wrote to my MP two weeks ago regarding my shock and horror at the ridiculous speed the UKs Digital Economy bill was being pressed through parliament, and into the wash-up before the next general election, effectively making it law with only a minor discussion. 2 years agowith14 notes debillukpoliticsmandelsondigital economy billip addressinternet - meeb.org

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Media Talk: Parliament rushes through digital economy bill

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How Wikileaks shone light on worlds darkest secrets -World Politics, World - The Independent

When the Ministry of Defence first came across Wikileaks, staffers were stunned. If any further proof were needed of the website's extraordinary record in holding the authorities to account, it came this week, in the release of shocking video footage of a gung-ho US helicopter attack in Iraq that killed 12 people, including two unarmed employees of the Reuters news agency. An edited version of the tape had received almost 4 million hits on YouTube by last night, and it led news bulletins around the world. - independent.co.uk

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The digital economy bill: what made it |Technology |guardian.co.uk

The digital economy bill was an ambitious piece of legislation designed, among other things, to overhaul the broadcasting industry, start the ball rolling on radio switchover, ensure high-speed broadband access for all, and deal with internet piracy. Gordon Brown regarded it as an attempt to equip Britain for the digital age by providing the infrastructure needed to ensure the country's creative industries could flourish. That amounts to little more than a recognition that public service broadcasting content will increasingly be delivered over the internet as well as on TV. - guardian.co.uk

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Digital future one step closer

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The Press Association: Are you sure you re watching HD TV?

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Channel Islands Prepare for TV Digital Switchover in 2010

The four analogue TV channels will be permanently switched off in the area later this year on 27th November. After the switchover, around 50,000 homes in the region will be able to receive up to 15 Freeview channels for the first time. Digital UK, the organisation leading the digital switchover, will launch a public information campaign in March to advise residents of the Channel Islands about the switchover process. - prlog.org

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Doublethink The Digital Economy Bill against the digital economy

In 1938 Winston Churchill made a radio speech which was broadcast to America, describing what was happening as Nazi forces spread across Europe. The Bill now gets a third reading in the House of Lords, which means it is almost certain to become law. The government did a deal with the Conservative leadership, which got a number of provisions it didnt like removed. - eu.techcrunch.com

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ITV HD to offer regional channels

With the launch of ITV HD on satellite, cable and Freeview, there is something missing from the channel when it comes to news and regional programming and the clue is in the regional programming part As a result, the regulator Ofcom has issued ITV HD with enough licences to cover the regional variations. This is bold decision by ITV which has been struggling with finances recently, but there is the possibility that this move will help regional TV attract even more advertising in the long run. - techwatch.co.uk

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Anger about digital stitch-up

Edited highlights of Wednesday's House of Commons debate that lasted for 2 hours and 25 minutes. MPs voiced anger at the digital economy bill - aimed at supporting artists' copyright and tackle illegal file-sharing - being rushed into law. However, the bill was approved by MPs by a majority of 142 votes and it passed through the Lords on Thursday. - news.bbc.co.uk

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US broadband plan in flux after net neutrality ruling

The US ranks 15th in the world for providing access to high-speed internet Large parts of a US plan to give its citizens high speed net access are threatened by a court ruling involving net neutrality, regulators have warned. Advocacy groups said this ruling put the US broadband plan in legal limbo. In a blogpost, Austin Schlick the FCC's general counsel listed some of the 200 recommendations made under the plan that he said are now in flux as a result of the court ruling. - news.bbc.co.uk

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ITV launches HD ad push |Media |guardian.co.uk

The ad, directed by the music video director Dave Meyers, ends with HD versions of Ant and Dec becoming tall and buff. To contact the MediaGuardian news desk email editormediaguardian.co.uk or phone 020 3353 3857. For all other inquiries please call the main Guardian switchboard on 020 3353 2000. - guardian.co.uk

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7 people who are returning their iPads | Betanews

Months of hype built up your expectations -- like one of those Internet romances. There's what you imagined the iPad to be, and now there is the reality. Yes, within 14 days of purchase and by coughing up a 10-percent restocking fee. - betanews.com

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BBC Media Show: Meow meow myths 07 Apr 10

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Digital economy bill: government forced to drop key clauses |Technology |guardian.co.uk

Ben Bradshaw pushed through the digital economy bill's second reading last night The government is to sacrifice clauses enabling the national rollout of replacement ITV regional news services and giving Ofcom more power as part of last-minute political horse-trading to get the digital economy bill passed into law. Ben Bradshaw, the culture secretary, has tabled three amendments to the DEB, which passed its second reading late last night with broad cross-party support. About 30 MPs were present in the Commons for the second reading debate. - guardian.co.uk

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What Digital Economy Bill? #debill

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Regional TV news consortium plan misses election contract deadline |Media |guardian.co.uk

The government admitted today that its attempt to rush through plans for independent consortiums to take over ITV regional news provision before the general election has failed. A Labour victory in the 6 May general election is the only thing that can now save the plan, which the Conservatives say they would scrap. Separately, the government has also been forced to remove the clause from the digital economy bill enabling the scheme to be started nationally after 2012, as part of a deal with the Conservatives to get the rest of the legislation through parliament before it is dissolved later this week. - guardian.co.uk

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Digital Television Update - 2009 Q4 | Ofcom

Q4 2009 1.1 Consumer survey results for the fourth quarter of 2009 show that take-up of digital television in UK households stood at 91.4, up by 1.9 percentage points pp in the quarter and 2.6 year on year. 1.2 Consumers are continuing to convert additional sets in the home. As a result almost 69 of all secondary TV sets had been converted to digital by the end of Q4, up by around 8.5 percentage points in a year. - ofcom.org.uk

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BBC News - BBC West TV area goes all-digital

The TV transmitter which serves the BBC West area has been switched to a completely digital signal. The change to the Mendip Transmitter, just outside Wells, completes a process of switchover which began on 24 March. Anyone experiencing problems with the switchover should contact Digital UK on 08456 505050. - news.bbc.co.uk

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Digital economy bill second reading today: expect fireworks |Technology |guardian.co.uk

The election is being called today which would push this controversial bill through to the 'wash-up'. It's the big day for the digital economy bill - 6 April, second reading and perhaps some debate in the house of Commons. Gordon Brown is also expected to take a trip to Buckingham Palace to ask the Queen to dissolve parliament so there can be a 6 May election. - guardian.co.uk

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The Digital Economy Bill needs debate - James Cridland

The Digital Economy Bill is important for the UK radio industry. If a number of conditions are met, then it allows the government to choose whether to switch off FM and transition the major radio stations over to digital. Ive stayed conspicuously silent on this section of the Bill, and I dont intend to tell you what I think of this bit quite yet. - james.cridland.net

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Which? Podcast - Freeview vs Freesat - our TV experts compare HD picture quality

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Elgato Netstream DTT networkable TV tuner Register Hardware

Why release a brand new tuner in the UK without supporting the free-to-air terrestrially broadcast HD TV platform The Elgato has two tuners on board, both fed from the one co-ax port, and so can transmit to two network clients simultaneously. It doesn't downgrade the broadcast video bitrate to do so, Elgato says, and I certainly so no drop in picture quality. - reghardware.co.uk

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New Doctor shows hes right man for the job -TV Radio, Media - The Independent

This is what Doctor Who does or has done since 1966, when William Hartnell transformed into Patrick Troughton, complete with a new pair of pixie boots. These days, the Doctor's footwear doesn't regenerate with him. Audiences may be happy to accept a transdimensional police box piloted by a thousand-year-old man who can save the universe with a screwdriver but a pair of Converse trainers rearranging their molecules into some Doc Martens - independent.co.uk

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