As frankps sees the world!

Not all Web 2.0 services make it. And not everything Niklas Zennström and Janus Friis, founders of Skype, touch turns to gold. They are, according to IDG.se, pulling the plug on Joost. There are not many video solutions that have really succeeded in this area, Youtube and Vimeo, are not direct competitors. And Hulu is only available in U.S, iPlayer from BBC only in U.K, other services are also not available worldwide. But I can see that the amount of national services made it difficult for […] Continue reading →

RiksTV has managed to become the first to broadcast TV2 HD, which goes live on June 25th. The first show in HD is gonna be TV2′s own produced entertainment show “Allsang pÃ¥ grensen”, which will be a weekly show during the summer. Other productions that will be sent in HD: Tour de France LIVE (primo July 2009) 2-3 series a week (Greys Anatomy/ Cleaners/ Scrubs/ Brothers & Sisters/ Criminal Minds) from about August 17th 2009 Movies Fridays and Saturdays (as many as […] Continue reading →

It’s been a while since I last wrote about the HDTV channels I had. I recently changed subscription at Get, from Family to Family HD. The change of channel package only costed 10 NOK extra per month and gave me the following HD channels: MTV HD, SVT HD and Eurosport HD. Recently also BBC HD got added. I am also paying a bit extra for getting Discovery HD. In an earlier article written a few months ago, I criticized Get for their lack of HDTV channels compared to Canal Digital. Canal […] Continue reading →

Just as the last counties in Norway got digital TV signals, I upgraded my digital cabletv tuner to a HD PVR. The two most read blog entries I have written are What does HD Ready mean? and DVB-T with H.264 (MPEG-4), so I thought about writing about HDTV content available in Norway. There are two big companies providing HDTV on cable TV, Canal Digital and Get (both links in Norwegian). I have Get. […] Continue reading →

Our first satelite channel, TV Norge (TVN), is today going HD. TVNorge HD will open with the world’s most expensive TV-series, Rome. Sadly the channel is a corporation between TVNorge og Canal Digital, and will therefor only be available for Canal Digital subscribers, via cabel and satelite. To receive the channel, you must also have an HD decoder, but the channel itself is free. Great TV-series as CSI, Rome, The Closer, Nigel Marven’s Arctic Exposure, Big Bang Theory and […] Continue reading →