Does the dropping of basic encryption by UPC in Switzerland mean the end is nigh for the old fashioned set-top box? Asks Julian Clover.
Clover’s Week: Switched
Julian Clover on what happens when the UK completes the digital switchover.
Clover’s Week: Don’t let Red Button make you Blue
The BBC is drastically reducing the video streams attached to its Red Button service across all platforms. Julian Clover looks at its future.
Clover’s Week: The future comes to Vienna
Julian Clover gets a glimpse of screens yet to come at the CTAM EuroSummit in Vienna.
Clover’s Week: New Amsterdam
Once again IBC proves to be the place to hear about what is about to happen and view what the technologists hope might, writes Julian Clover.
Clover’s Week: 10 reasons to dislike IBC
It is the greatest show on earth, well Amsterdam anyway, but in the run up to IBC there are little things that make Julian Clover grumpy.
Clover’s Week: Consumers are telling us
Always dangerous to ask the consumer what they want from television, Ericsson did, and the answer wasn’t 3D, writes Julian Clover.
Clover’s Week: Pay-TV comes to the High Street
In recent years the video store has suffered under pressure from the pay-TV operators that have a library of content already in the home. We may not have been persuaded […]
Clover’s Week: Helping with enquiries
Five years after Ofcom’s pay-TV inquiry began the market is right back where it started, writes Julian Clover.
Clover’s Week: YouView is just like watching Brazil on pay-TV
Julian Clover gets his hands on YouView’s near pay-TV experience.