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Digital TV (No subscription costs once set up costs paid)

Digital UK switchover dates See when your part of the country switches from analogue to digital  Tweets Latest news on Freeview TV

1. Freeview Official website                         Click here for what channels (TV and radio) you can get (roughly 100! but they are SD - Standard Definition) Read about Freeview HD High Definition coming soon but there are still no boxes in the UK!! Check Radio&Telly too for info

2. FreeSat Read about the free digital TV service which requires no subscription, just a satellite dish, cable and Freesat box  Buy a £50 Standard Definition box from Argos - stock levels are low though! Comes in HD too but only 2 channels so far, BBC HD and ITV HD  See Freesat channel list Iplayer on FreeSat soon?

3. FreeSat from Sky Read about the free digital TV service from Sky

Set top digital boxes from around £25 - click Pricerunner to see what boxes are available, or here

The TV market has been and still is very confusing and requires a lot of homework. Check this table to see a selection of what PVRs are available with 2 or more tuners.

Personally I would buy an LCD TV and look to buy a box that offers 1) HD - High Definition, 2) HD Freeview+/or HD Freesat, 3) HDMI connectors, 4) Ethernet for broadband connection for Internet TV, and/or 5) Wi-Fi to connect to your home network media. DVD and Blu-ray may become superfluous because of these developments.

VideoOnDemand news from Digital Spy      also check here for forum discussions of the latest PVR boxes

Another option is to buy a Media box e.g. Sony Playstation 3 which will stream media content from your PC to display on TV and play 'On-Demand TV' (see below). Click Pricerunner for what's available

Samsung LE-40B550              Samsung LE-37B550

Video On-Demand (Catch-up) TV

Future of TV which lists one of them as....................On-Demand TV (IPTV) List available services - "tailor made television piped into your home'

Video On-Demand (Catch-up) TV on PC (IPTV)

1. TV Catch-up 29 channels to choose from (Requires registration)

2. SeeSaw (was Project Kangaroo)  Showing BBC, 4OD and Five

3. MSN Player Same as BBC iPlayer

4. Project Canvas (official) Project Canvas (un-official) (not quite ready - yet) A project to create a player that brings together all the services listed below  Read more on this subject from Stuff

5. CBS TV.com US Channel currently only showing Channel 5 content (below) but more to follow apparently

6. Hulu (not quite ready for UK - yet!)  Last but by no means least. Hulu is the massive VideoOnDemand (VoD) service in the US and may be imminent in UK - message pops up after 15secs and you can register your interest Read here on T3 for the latest news

 7. BBC iPlayer BBC Player enabling catch-up on the last 7 days of BBC TV... on your computer                       Multicast Higher quality radio and TV

8. ITV Catch-up  Same as BBC iPlayer

9. 4OD (Channel4) Catch-up Same as BBC iPlayer

10. Channel Five Catch-up Same as BBC iPlayer

11. Sky Catch-up Same as BBC iPlayer - but requires registration

Video On-Demand (Catch-up) TV on TV

1. BT Vision Available with BT Total broadband package - not free

2. Freeview 'TopUpTV' Add extra channels, if you have a Freeview set top box, (STB) for around £11/month. Click here for more useful info on compatible boxes and also read about what TopUpTV has to offer

3. FreeSat On-Demand  Not available yet but worth reading this update

4. Virgin Media Digital TV through Cable from Virgin - 65 Channels

5. Tiscali (was Homechoice) Uses broadband internet service to pipe TV into your home for about £20/month

6. Boxee - One of many solutions for watching internet media on your telly

7. Sony Location Free TV Allows you to watch your TV (located at home) from wherever you are in the world using a slingbox!

SimplifyDigital Click here to find the right package for telephone, digital TV and broadband

OntheBox Very good TV listings Radio Times  What's On TV?          

Blinkx  35 million hours of TV and video - Amazing site    Worldwide TV 3000 stations           ChooseANDwatch             BBC TV         TV Past Beware as this site is very addictive - all your favourite TV programmes from the past                      British News Pathe (Archive - requires registration) 3500 hours of archive footage between 1896 and 1970

TV links below are .ram files that play on RealOne Player

Click here for links to watch BBC1, BBC2, BBC3, BBC4, BBC News, BBC Parliament, CBBC and CBeebies

Digital Radio

1. Want to listen to Digital Radio? Click BBC for more info. including a postcode checker for UK digital radio coverage. Find radios for sale at Radio Now

For more in depth and up to date news, and a very honest opinion of DAB quality in the UK, plus a list of all radios for sale try  Digital Radio Tech (scroll down for all the news with his personal opinions - he's not impressed!) Also read about wireless free internet radios

Radio 

BBC Radio on demand  Latest BBC Programmes (on BBC IPlayer)

Podcasts BBC podcasts (listening to radio shows on mobile device) See here for more worldwide Podcast content

BBC Radio 1 Listen live!

BBC Radio 2 Listen live!

BBC Radio 3 Listen live! 

BBC Radio 4 FM           BBC Radio 4 LW  Listen live!

BBC Radio 5 Live  Listen to 5 Live!

BBC 6 Music Listen live!

BBC Radio 7 Listen live!

BBC 1Xtra Listen live!

BBC Asian Network Listen live!

BBC Radio World Service Listen live!

BBC Radio Scotland Listen Live!

Radio Einslive  Listen live!

To listen to all BBC stations above you may need to download free version of RealOne Player

Absolute Radio (was Virgin Radio)

BFBS Radio 1 British Forces Broadcasting Service      BFBS Radio 2 Both BFBS station links should work automatically on Microsoft Media Player v11 as should following links

Radio Locator

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