Month: March 2015

  • Streaming TV Boxes

    So here’s a question. You live in the UK, and you want to buy a cheap streaming box to pop under your TV and get all the main channels. Perhaps you don’t have a smart TV, or it’s not smart enough and doesn’t have the features you really want. There’s a plethora of devices hitting…

  • Why Doesn’t The Chart Show Adopt An Opening Weekend Model?

    This week came news that with the change in release dates of music – shifting from Mondays to Fridays on a global basis – the Radio 1 Official Chart Show will likewise shift. So that instead of going out at the end of the previous week (i.e. the previous Sunday to Saturday) it will air…

  • Watching HD TV

    At home, I have two ways to watch broadcast HD television. I can either watch via Freeview or Sky HD (Strictly speaking, my TV also has Freesat built in, but I’ve never enabled it). In a Freeview world, should I chose to watch one of the biggest channels: BBC1, BBC2, ITV, C4 or C5 I…

  • Trademark Issues Ahead?

    Mobile operator Orange – now EE – has recently ended its sponsorship of UK cinemas’ “Orange Wednesdays” which for ten years got you 2 for 1 cinema tickets every Wednesday – a day which is traditionally a quiet day with new releases coming just ahead. So it was interesting to read that the replacement is…

  • US Podcasting Developments

    Like many people since last weekend I’ve been bingeing a series since last weekend. No not the new season of House of Cards, although I will be catching up with that very soon, but Alex Blumberg’s Startup podcast about how to build a startup podcasting company. Very meta. It’s been sitting there on my phone…

  • Bosch and Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt

    I remain unconvinced about whether or not streaming services are really the future. They’ve certainly had more hits than misses recently, but those will come in due course. “Traditional” media never strived to create a deliberate failure after all. But that all said, Amazon and Netflix have had a couple of stormers in the last…

  • Staying Alive in London on a Bike

    While I wouldn’t say I was a cycling activist, I am definitely a cycling advocate. I love to talk about all forms of cycling, and have always enjoyed being out on a bike. I’ll dispense advice, rave about how wonderful Bromptons are, spend hours watching cycling on Eurosport, go out and take photos of cyclists,…

  • The Unthanks at The Roundhouse

    I went to see The Unthanks yesterday at The Roundhouse in Camden. For no obvious reason, and having been to see an exhibition at Tate Modern first (Conflict, Time – I only found it so-so to be honest), I decided to walk to Camden for the concert, taking photos as I went. Here are a…

  • Kuurne Brussels Kuurne 2015

    If Omloop Het Nieuwsblad is for the tough guys of the peleton, then Kuurne Brussels Kuurne is a sprinters’ race. The two come together over the last weekend of February or the first weekend of March, although they seem to have different promoters. That also possibly explains why no broadcaster took the more exciting Het…