Toy Story 3 will open in cinema in the UK Today. Much of the hype surrounding the film has been that it will be shown in 3D but the are also thing happening in the sound department. Toy Story 3 will be the first film to ever been shown in Dolby Surround 7.1, the new [...]
Toy Story 3 Opens Today – First to use Dolby Surround 7.1
Cameron Strikes 3D Deal with Samsung
James Cameron has announced a linked partnership with Samsung in a deal to promote their 3D TV products. The avatar director announced the partnership at a press conference in Seoul where he gushed about Samsung’s LED TV range: ‘In some ways, Avatar will look actually better on (Samsung) televisions than it did in movie theatres, [...]
LoveFilm Arrives to Internet@TV
Earlier in the week LoveFilm’s online film rental service went live to Samsung’s connected home entertainment products. LoveFilm’s app launched on Samsung’s Internet@TV platform, which serves IP-enabled TVs, Blu-ray players and Home Cinema Systems. The service will be available to subscribers to LoveFilm’s unlimited package and users will be able to streaming new and library [...]
LG Korea & Microsoft to make 3D Gaming a reality on the Xbox 360
LG Korea has released an image on the regions flickr account with an accompanying press release stating that they have entered an “Memorandum of Understanding for Marketing” with Microsoft. From what we can gather is that both companies will jointly market LG’s new 3D LED Televisions along side 3D-capable Microsoft Xbox 360 Games in South Korea. Unfortunately at present [...]
BBC Scotland election coverage
BBC Scotland plans extensive coverage, reports and analysis of the election results as they come through this evening and into the early hours. Reporters from the company will be based across the UK to bring viewers all the news live, as it happens. Glenn Campbell will host coverage of the election on ‘Election 2010 Scotland’ [...]
Sharp Aquos Quattron LED Televisions now Launched
Sharp 2010 LED Television range adds a fourth colour to the traditional Red, Green and Blue (RGB). By adding a fourth colour, Yellow, Sharp now have the ability to display the brightest and deepest yellows & golds – something not possible with standard RGB technology. Sharp’s new Aquos Quad Pixel LED TVs will offer better and [...]
Small 3DTV’s coming from Samsung in 2011
Samsung have declared that “bigger is better” regarding 3D TV. However, their advances in 3D technology will still see them releasing 32 and 37 inch 3D TVs in 2011. This issue was confirmed by a Samsung spokesman at a recent Samsung 2D/3D conversion technology demonstration. Samsung’s current smallest 3D TV measures 40 inches but after [...]
Digital Switchover Begins in Scotland
The Digital Switchover has now begun in Scotland, Digital UK has confirmed. Early this morning, the analogue signal for BBC Two Scotland was permantely switched off from the Bressary Transmitter which covers the Shetland Islands. During the Digital Switchover in this area, digital versions of BBC channels will finally go live on Freeview, and for [...]
Samsung Apps to bring BBC iPlayer to your Home Theatre In 2010
Samsung has announced that BBC iPlayer, the UK’s leading TV Catch-up service, will be available through their new range of LED Televisions, LCD TVs, Plasma Television Sets.