Category: Television
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Last week the UK TV rights for the English Premier League were sold for £3 billion. Does that affect Hong Kong viewers? No, because the rights for other countries will be sold separately. But here’s a stupid story in the SCMP based on the incorrect assumption that international rights are included in the UK deal,…
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Incredibly stupid story from the SCMP. Now TV have purchased the rights to the Rugby World Cup and will be charging viewers between nothing and HK$388 to watch the tournament. Well, what did anyone expect? Fan fury as PCCW cashes in on rugby cup Broadcaster tells home viewers and publicans they will have to pay…
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Ah, the FA Cup Final. Used to be the only club game played at Wembley, and the only one that was live on TV. Now we have the FA Cup semi-finals at Wembley, play-off finals, the League Cup, the Charity Community Shield and I don’t know how many other matches played there. And hundreds of…
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I have been waiting for a long time for Now TV and Cable TV to provide the facility to record programmes (as Sky TV do in the UK with Sky+), but there’s still no sign of anything useful. Step forward the MTV 7000D, which allows you to record programmes from Now TV and Cable TV…
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It doesn't seem that long ago that we only got one EPL game live on Saturday night. Then it became two of the 3pm kick-offs, and then (3 years ago) every single game. Perhaps even more amazing is that we now get up to 3 live games on Saturday from the Championship (the second tier…
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Just watching The Hotel Inspector on BBC Lifestyle, and I was puzzling over what had been blurred out. BBC Lifestyle has been known to blur out all manner of fairly innocuous things lest they offend sensitive viewers. Turns out that it was a dalek (unblurred image shown right)… It did seem odd that there were…
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Sky News have been making the most of the lengthy post-election negotiations, and they even have (or had) a helicopter flying around London to try to make it all more exciting. On Monday when Gordon Brown was making his first resignation speech of the week you could clearly hear it overhead. It was a curious…
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Sky News presenter to Lord Adonis, the transport minister, about the volcanic ash problem: “Do you have a contingency plan for this unprecedented state of affairs” Adonis just ignored the question.
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Now TV have 9 sports channels. However, they don’t have enough sport to fill all these channel 24 hours per day and by the time you get to channel 638 (Now Sports 8) there’s usually just a blank screen. OK, fair enough. But hang on, there are several Premier League games tonight. Shouldn’t one of…
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Another year goes by, and we still have the same old problem. TVB are apparently unable to provide an English language commentary for the Rugby Sevens on Jade HD. You can choose TVB Pearl, but with a fuzzy picture, or HD with no English. What really puzzles me about this is that the picture quality…
Ordinary Gweilo 