Mannerisms

HD TV to come from the Internet next year, rather than the tradiitonal TV programming providers, is one of In-Stat's predictions for 2007. Why are incumbents so often outflanked by nimble upstarts?

“Have you heard about the analogue switch-off?” a telephone caller from my cable TV suppler NTL asks me.

Two groups of people are going to be the saviour of the market for TV-to-the-cellphone - commuting Asians and young people.

Robert Adler, inventor of the TV remote control, died last week at 93. His remote was based on ultrasonics; infra-red wasn't used in remotes until the 1980s.

Poor old plasma has had really lousy PR these last few years with the rumours that they need re-gassing, and that the colours degrade over time, gaining currency in every pub conversation about flat panel displays.

The Sky vs Virgin battle, which surfaced last month with Sky withdrawing its news service and other programmes from Virgin's TV channels, is taking on an intriguing new technical direction.

Interesting to see Intel executive vp Sean Maloney predict the demise of traditional TV. That’s exactly what Ben Elton does in his new novel Blind Faith.