29th July – W10 day, they said. But perhaps not. If you thought you would be getting w10 today, then all is not as it seems. Many users have been expecting W10 to be available for them to install today.
Continue reading →Ahead of the start of the football season, BT has added its Sport Extra channels on satellite and BT TV. BT Sport Extra 1-7 have been allocated channels 450-456 (SD) and 465-471 (HD) on BT TV, but are still testing … Continue reading →
Project Free TV website has closed down. The Project Free TV now displays just one word on its homepage: Goodbye. Streaming is now one of the most popular ways of viewing content. Thanks to a player embedded in a webpage … Continue reading →
According to sources, the MPAA has revived its legal campaign against piracy sites with a new lawsuit against movie streaming platform MovieTube. The people behind MovieTube allegedly operate a group of infringing sites and the studios are demanding millions of … Continue reading →
Sky is putting the finishing touches to an advanced set-top box, dubbed SkyQ, that it hopes will be a powerful weapon in its defence of its domestic pay-TV business against BT and help it integrate its European operations. The new … Continue reading →
After reading a few posts on an UK Expat website, about reception of UK TV in Spain, many posters were getting confused with some of the “brand names” being used. People were recommending a Dreambox, but people were getting confused … Continue reading →
Browsing the local expat newspapers this weekend, I looked at the adverts from other satellite TV companies in the area. One advert from one company caught my eye. One of their installation options offered a “Ferguson Freesat HD digibox”. However … Continue reading →
Formula 1 returns from its brief break due to the cancellation of the German Grand Prix, with the Hungarian Grand Prix from the Hungaroring. And with the tragic news on Friday of the death of Jules Bianchi several months after … Continue reading →
The UK Government has announced a new proposal to increase the maximum jail term for online piracy from two to ten years. According to the authorities longer prison sentences are needed to deter large-scale and commercial copyright infringement on the … Continue reading →
Sky Sports will kick off its biggest ever season of Sky Bet Football League with three live matches across the opening weekend, beginning with Brighton and Hove Albion’s home match against Nottingham Forest on Friday 7 August. Sky will show … Continue reading →
Some of the BT SPort channels have changed frequencies in the last day or so. The changes are detailed below. IF you have a Sky digibox, then the digibox will have automatically changed to the new frequencies. Users with other … Continue reading →
Six Nations Rugby will remain available to Freeview and Freesat homes until 2021 following a new deal. The new deal will see the BBC and ITV sharing coverage from 2016. The two broadcasters came together to thwart Sky’s bid for … Continue reading →
A new UK TV Licence deal will close the “catch-up loophole” and BBC to take over the cost of over 75s “free Licence” Responding to a question about the so-called “iPlayer loophole”, which allows viewers to watch TV programmes without … Continue reading →
When areas of southern Spain and Portugal lost access to the free to air signals carrying BBC and ITV due to the changes in satellite footprints caused by Astra replacing their old satellite with new satellites, some expats turned to … Continue reading →
BT Sports announce first batch of live Premier League matches for the new season Manchester United and Tottenham will kick off the new Premier League season, it has been revealed. United’s first game of the season against Spurs on August … Continue reading →