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TV Pulls Rank Over Big Brother's Web Operation
News But a source at Channel 4 says reports are misleading and the real reason the Webcams were turned off was to protect the TV programme's viewing figures. Channel 4 insists the Web unit and the TV unit work in "unison" and rejects any suggestion of...
[August 18, 2000, 12:53]
Jane Wakefield: Big Brother Is Watching You
News But while the execs at Channel 4 are happy to play ball with the Internet to promote TV programmes and give them that all-important and trendy Web presence it is not so happy when the Web starts to steal valuable viewers.
[August 21, 2000, 7:00]
Big Brother: The Inside Story
News Channel 4 cuts Big Brother Web feed Thu, 17 Aug Nick has finally been busted, but why did Channel 4 interrupt the live Web broadcast? Tue, 25 Jul Hackers hit Channel 4's Big Brother Web site last Tuesday with what has been described as a "massive...
[July 25, 2000, 11:52]
2000 Roundup: Big Brother Craze Hits Britain
News A source at Channel 4 however revealed that the TV team cut the feed deliberately in order to protect the TV programme's viewing figures. The Channel 4 team was unconcerned as its eviction lines had been frantically dealing with more than 1.5...
[December 24, 2000, 6:16]
BT Launches Mobile TV Service
News Viewing TV via the mobile is fast becoming a reality and the popularity of our existing services proves a strong demand for mobile viewing already exists," said Rod Henwood, Channel 4's director of new business, on Thursday.
[September 7, 2006, 11:30]
NTL Targets Broadband Blackspot With Wireless
Talkback Why have NTL lost channel 4 recently? Other people have lost it too as I rang various realatives and friends (in MK) whenh my channel 4 stopped and they had the same problem. I live in Milton Keynes and have to plug my tv ariel into the NTL socket.
[January 9, 2006, 16:03]
Magic Swf2Avi
Downloads Add-ons, Magic Swf2Avi 2008 can convert Flash(swf) to JPG, BMP image sequences, TAG, TIFF, PNG image sequences with alpha transparent channel.Version 5.0.8 may include unspecified updates, enhancements, or bug fixes.
[February 20, 2008, 15:16]
Alternatives To DVB-T In The UK
Blog An IR transmitter would need to be used to control channel changing, and since it uses the only externally-available tuner you couldn’t watch one channel on TV and let another record on the same box. More channels are expected to sign up, but at...
[June 19, 2008, 22:16]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog It's good that the BBC has taken advantage of digital to spread its wings, but it shouldn't have the monopoly: and I know Channel 4 is a public service broadcaster too, but it's more of the same. Digital Countryside Channel?
[May 3, 2002, 17:43]
Big Brother Files: Thursday
News The UK's biggest bookie Ladbrokes confirms that since Channel 4's Big Brother news flash Wednesday, the smart money is on Mel, but her odds have still slipped to 4 to 1 (that's down from 6 to 1). The nation's hopes of a sexual encounter on the...
[July 20, 2000, 17:07]
Surf's Up: Webmaster Is Faking It On TV
News Elan's webmaster, Stuart Matheson, is taking part in Channel 4's successful documentary series, Faking It, in which plucky individuals undergo a radical job change and try to convince the experts that they were born to their new professions.
[October 28, 2002, 14:25]
Zattoo Puts Live TV On The Desktop
Blog Unlike the rest, Zattoo comes with all of the BBC's terrestrial and digital channels, ITV (local and regional), Channel 4, Five, and a bunch of other stuff you normally only find when flicking around on a dull weekend.
[April 29, 2008, 14:18]
Government To Boost Power Of Digital TV Signals
News It also outlines a future target for 84 percent of British homes to have access to digital channels from the BBC, ITV and Channel 4. The Department of Trade and Industry is to increase the number of transmitters for terrestrial digital TV to meet...
[October 15, 2001, 17:49]
'Free' Digital TV Arrives This Week
News Some viewers may not be able to receive ITV and Channel 4 channels, however, because Crown Castle has switched to a stronger broadcast signal while ITV stayed with the weaker signal it used for ITV Digital.
[October 28, 2002, 15:50]
Online TV Blamed For Choking Broadband Networks
News This means services such as iPlayer or Channel 4's 4oD can be slowed, but not interrupted, as available bandwidth is reduced. The massive increase in bandwidth-heavy online TV and video content being downloaded by UK broadband users has raised...
[January 29, 2008, 8:42]
Picture This: New Sony PC Records TV Shows
News For complete business coverage, see ZDNet UK's Enterprise Channel. These features will allow people to watch shows on a PC monitor or a TV set and record them to a hard drive or DVD-RW disc as if they were recording to a VCR tape.
[May 18, 2001, 15:02]
Latest GPRS Deal Gives 3G Sleepless Nights
News Viewers of Shattered, a programme running on Channel 4 in which contestants have to do without sleep in order to win, can now access a realtime continuous stream of action from the show -- if they have a compatible GPRS device.
[January 7, 2004, 17:00]
Job Cuts Expected At CNN's Web Operations
News As well as its CNN news TV channel, the company also runs several other channels and Web sites -- and may be hoping provide more in-house content for its Web site. CNN News Group, part of Time Warner, is expected to announce significant job cuts...
[January 11, 2001, 14:02]
Microsoft Looks To Extend Digital Media Reach
News But Microsoft, through the potent distribution channel that is Windows, has an immediate advantage over many competitors in finding a way to propagate its own formats. Video information currently is encoded with several formats: MPEG-2 (used on...
[April 18, 2002, 7:31]
Hitchhiker's Guide Wins Interactivity Gong
News West Midlands man Dan Jones picked up the New Talent award for his work on Channel 4's Ideas Factory. The BBC also won awards for Spooks Interactive in the Best Interactive TV category, and for its coverage of England's exit from Euro 2004 which...
[March 3, 2005, 16:30]
