Last week, The San Francisco Chronicle began a “Free Sarah Palin” campaign on its Politics blog, documenting the continuing lack of access to the candidate. The effort was echoed by CNN host Campbell Brown, who called on “the McCain campaign to stop treating Sarah Palin like she is a delicate flower that will wilt at any moment.”
“This woman is from Alaska, for crying out loud. She is strong. She is tough. She is confident. And you claim she is ready to be one heartbeat away from the presidency. If that is the case, then end this chauvinistic treatment of her now. Allow her to show her stuff,” Brown said. “Free Sarah Palin.”
Freesat has announced that it has hit 100,000 sales since its launch on 6th May this year. with high definition content over the summer playing a key role in moving HD set-top boxes.
Emma Scott, MD of Freesat commented, “There’s no denying how much people enjoy watching in high definition once they see it for themselves and the success of Freesat proves that. Unfortunately there are still a lot of people out there who think they’re already watching in HD because they have an HD ready TV - but they aren’t.”
“We want to help everyone understand that HD Ready is not the same thing as HD now. Without an HD digital receiver connected to an HD Ready TV or an integrated TV with Freesat HD built in you can’t watch an HD TV programme. It needn’t be complicated or costly. For those people that already have a satellite dish installed, they may simply be able to take their Freesat digital box or integrated TV home and plug it straight in.”
While Freesat remains a fairly niche player in the broadcasting space at present, behind the likes of Sky and standard Freeview, its initial sales are fairly encouraging, particularly given a minimal amount of marketing.
Going forward through autumn and into 2009, Freesat plans to launch its Freesat+ service, offering a DTR similar to Sky+ and Freeview+, in November, to increase the number of manufacturers and retailers supplying Freesat equipment, and to continue to launch new channels and services each month
Warner Home Video will release the three Matrix movies in a single Blu-ray box set on 17th November, including a collection of exclusive additional content and uncompressed cinema-quality audio.
Of course, the set contains the three films — The Matrix, The Matrix Reloaded and The Matrix Revolutions — plus the following special features after the jump: Continue reading »
Google Chrome Browser is here and available for download at: http://www.google.com/chrome. This is Google’s latest battleground with Microsoft who produce the almost ubiquitous Internet Explorer. Personally, I would like to see Google produce a mail client.
This is quite a big step up from the Apple Remote application, which allowed you to control your iTunes and which speakers it played through. I thought that was cool, how I would love to have this setup in my house:
Two home automation control apps for the iPhone were announced today allowing people to access and control their home automation systems while on the go. My House UI for Control 4 and Crestron Control App are very similar but bring the characteristic traits of their respective systems to the forefront.
According to the press release, My House UI for Control4 was developed by Control UI and Control4 and makes it so you can access your home system on your iPhone. All you have to do is download the app from the App Store, download some software onto the Control4 system and you’ll be good to go. There is also a dock called the Control4 Dock for iPod that lets you share your iPod’s contents with the Control4 home system.
The Crestron Control App for iPhone is a similar piece of software that’s free to download and is “fully integrated with Crestron programming software including SystemBuilder™, VT Pro-e and SIMPL™,” according to the press release. After the simple download and a few set up procedures, you can control your home and office with just a few taps on your iPhone.
Apple’s iPhone 3G will soon be available to Irish consumers on a pay-as-you-go basis, with O2 Ireland confirming the plan is to be introduced here soon. “O2 in Ireland is currently working on making the iPhone 3G available to prepay customers and we hope to be in a position to give more details in the coming weeks,” a spokesman for O2 Ireland told ENN. While there is no details on when it will launch in Irish stores, in the UK O2 has announced the pay-as-you-go iPhone 3G will be rolled out on 16 September. From then, an 8GB pay-as-you-go iPhone 3G will be available for STG349.99 and the 16GB version for STG399.99.
Prices of the Xbox360 video game are to be slashed in Japan as its makers Microsoft fight back against rivals. The cheapest of three models, Xbox 360 Arcade, will cost around €123 from next week. Nintendo’s Wii costs €150 and Sony’s PlayStation 3 model sold in Japan, which has a 40-gigabyte hard drive, is about €235. “We have set the prices with hopes more people will be able to enjoy Xbox 360,” said a Microsoft spokesman.
Microsoft will not say how many of the 20 million Xbox 360 machines sold worldwide were in Japan, but it is widely viewed to be fewer than numbers sold elsewhere. The Wii console has been popular, selling 29.6 million worldwide so far. PS3 sales have lagged at fewer than half of the Wii at 14.4 million.
