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TV

I wrote about Sky By Broadband back in January, a service that lets Sky customers download movies on demand. One of my Daily SearchCast listeners and Daggle readers dropped me a note to say that it looks like Sky installs something called Kservice that allows it to share files you download with others. He’s got [...]

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Sky’s getting closer to actually launching its HD service, because I just received a notice that they’re accepting deposits for the service. I’ve paid, and supposedly that will get me going before things open up to the general public. Here’s the rundown on what they’ve said. Thank you for registering for Sky HD. As one [...]

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007 may be licensed (US spelling) to kill, but I’m licenced (UK spelling) to watch TV in the UK for another year. My new license came in the post today: That’s £126.50 for the right to receive signals on my television for a year, about $225. Bear in mind, this doesn’t guarantee me the right [...]

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I’ve got a pretty smart cell phone. In fact, I have two smart phones, a Samsung SCH-i600 Windows Mobile Smartphone 2003 that I use with Verizon in the US and an Orange SPV C500 (AKA the Audiovox SMT 5600) Windows Mobile Smartphone 2003 Second Edition I use with Orange in the UK. I can sync [...]

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Flipping through my Sky channels tonight, I nearly fell off the sofa. Sky Movies 7, 8, 9 … then instead of the usual Sky Cinema 1, there was Sky Movies 9 HD! I couldn’t believe it — HD channels were actually live, despite the fact my various satellite magazines said we’d be lucky to see [...]

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While I hate January in Britain because of the gloomy weather, I love the month because we finally start getting the new seasons of shows from the US. I wrote earlier that ER and the OC had started their new seasons. This week, Desperate Housewives, Over There & Battlestar Galactica all get going. Desperate Housewives [...]

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I wrote previously about getting US shows in the UK. One of the best things recently was the launch of More4 in October. It picks up a number of shows that were on E4 earlier, such as The West Wing, along with some new ones. Best of all was The Daily Show with Jon Stewart [...]

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Britain a hotbed for illicit TV downloads from Reuters talks about the UK apparently being the biggest market for downloading pirated TV. Well, I can’t say I haven’t been tempted. Waiting ages to get shows from the US over here can drive me crazy. Driving you nuts? A few tips.

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