The World Cup kicks off today with Mexico taking on the host South Africa from 3pm. If you’re stuck in work, how are you planning to watch the action? A new set of World Cup stats suggest British football fans have been buying up tonnes of new tech to ensure they don’t miss a match. Read on for the most popular World Cup gadgets and ways to watch it online…
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The BBC is opening up the iPlayer. The new version, live today, already offers a ton of enhancements to make finding shows easier, but a further expansion is planned: adding links to rival broadcaster’s TV programmes directly within the iPlayer interface.
Project Canvas, the on demand TV standard backed by the BBC, Channel 4, ITV, Five, BT and Talk Talk amongst others, won’t be challenged by the Office of Fair Trading (OFT). The common approach to on demand telly will mean services like 4OD, ITV Player and BBC iPlayer as well as web apps will be piped right into your living room…
ITV has announced that it will stream tomorrow’s Election Debate between Gordon Brown, David Cameron and Nick Clegg online. Viewers will be able to ogle the three party leaders’ verbally jousting at ITV.com – and they can also interact with ITV News correspondents and political pundits.
UPDATE: Sony has contacted us to say that there is no partnership with ITV, and that the logo here is to demonstrate how it could work. We’ve asked ITV for its plans for on-demand, we’ll keep you posted!
The Sony Bravia Internet Video service for Sony’s web connected TVs is set to get ITV Player on-demand video, we can reveal. Catch up Corrie? Where do we sign? Read on for what we know so far.
Freesat is to launch ITV Player next year, to go alongside BBC iPlayer (which rolls out in beta from next month), and just in time for next year’s X Factor too.
ITV could charge users to watch TV shows on its ITV Player on-demand service, according to a top boss at the broadcaster, adopting a micropayment scheme rather than subscription so you’ll pay per click on Simon Cowell, rather than a monthly rate.