BBC Sport app brings Olympics and more to Sony Bravia TVs, PlayStation 3 and Blu-ray players

While Sony was busy launching its HX8 TVs over in the UK, it let slip another nugget of televisual goodness. That extra BBC Sport coverage that’s planned for summer, and available as a TiVo app , will also be coming to UK owners of Bravia TVs (2011 and onwards,) PS3s, and even some Blu-ray players (at a later date). Those 24 channels of HD Olympic action will be translated into live streams, and there will be the usual array of catch-up options too.

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Browse John Peel’s legendary record collection, travel back in time

The Peel Sessions — those are three blissful words to any music enthusiast.

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Londoners mourn as teletext goes dark, a victim of the DTV transition

Despite the many advantages of digital broadcast television, the transition is separating Europeans from a reliable source of information known as teletext. Citizens of London are the latest to experience the loss, as analog signals in the region were switched off just yesterday. Ceefax, a service of the BBC , has provided millions of Britons with news, sports, weather, television listings, subtitles and games for the past 38 years, and is now accessible only in Kent, Sussex, north-east England and Northern Ireland.

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BBC Olympic coverage to include 24 live HD channels available on TVs, phones, PCs and tablets

The BBC has home field advantage for the 2012 Olympics , and it’s revealing more details about how it plans to broadcast over 2,500 hours of live sports on 24 channels that viewers can watch pretty much anywhere. Director Roger Mosey indicates it started out as a way to watch all 24 streams on the BBC Sport website via PCs or mobile devices, but has been expanded to offer the streams through television operators as well

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BBC News Online adapts mobile site to smartphone demands, doesn’t discriminate against specs

Worried what your smartphone says about you?

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Is the BBC the next contestant in the quest to take on iTunes?

PaidContent is claiming the BBC has some pretty advanced plans to launch a video market, one meant to compete directly with the iTunes of the world. According to its source, the British Broadcasting Corporation plans to offer its vast back catalog of movies, TV shows and specials as £1.89 downloads

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New BBC iPlayer stats chart the rise of ‘connected’ TV viewing

Thanks to widespread adoption and excellent cross-platform availability, the BBC’s ubiquitous iPlayer is the perfect gauge of online viewing habits . New usage figures for December throw up little in the way of surprises, but still make impressive reading

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Israel promises retaliation against hacker that leaked credit card details

Recently a hacker targeted Israelis in an attack that resulted in 6,000 valid credit cards for Israeli citizens being stolen. The stolen card details were later published online by the hacker, who calls himself OxOmar.

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Netflix launches streaming in UK and Ireland

Netflix has launched its TV and movie streaming service in the UK and Ireland, as expected , offering unlimited access to its on-demand catalog for £5.99/€6.99. Promised back in October , the service can be accessed through Smart TVs, game consoles, Blu-ray players, tablets and smartphones, with some content available in HD and with 5.1-channel surround sound

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BBC launches news app for Sony connected TV, joins Samsung and Panasonic

Trading tradition for tech, the BBC has officially launched its news app for Sony connected TVs — joining the ranks of its other offerings made for Samsung and Panasonic displays.

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