There is a petition at petitions.pm.gov.uk/Free-TV-listings/ being run to make all UK television listings freely available under royalty-free terms such as a Creative Commons License....

The PVRHWDB has moved again! The site is now hosted by DreamHosts.

I have had to drop the mirrors, atleast temporarily, as the new site is bandwidth limited.

lkcl over at Advogato has pointed out (cache) that Sky's advertising of their new Anytime package doesn't actually run on *any* PC. It requires Windows.

lkcl suggests the advertising is in breach of the ASA guidelines and goes on to point out the many devices runing GNU/Linux Sky is now utilising, including the set-top box, and the modified/pre-configured Netgear DG834GT for the broadband service.

Under the GPL license, Sky should provide the source code free of charge...

Open Addict has an interview (cache) with Jack Kelliher, Founder and CEO of pcHDTV, the Linux-focused hardware company that markets HDTV cards.

Their flagship product is the HD-5500 (cache) HDTV PCI card which supports the popular MythTV Linux PVR application...

The 2007 CES show has seen the launch of a raft of new HDTV chips.

Conexant has added two video decoders for HDTV personal video recording (PVR) set-top boxes. The CX2427X is a dual-channel video decoder that can decode two HDTV programmes simultaneously, and supporting PVR applications on up to two televisions, eliminating the need for a dedicated STB receiver for each TV.

For the cable market, Broadcom has developed an HDTV Chip with a programmable security engine that has the hardware included to support all the current conditional access systems. This will avoid the need for subscriber cards, which are costly to distribute and vulnerable to hackers, and allow new CA algorithms to be downloaded to the cableboxes...

The number of Sky+ boxes installed in UK homes has broken through 2 million for the first time. The PVR service will also be enhanced in the coming months by giving customers the ability to use the internet to set a recording on their Sky+ box.

The rapid growth of Sky+ highlights increasing demand from customers for the ability to take control over their television viewing. With 2 million active boxes, almost 5 million viewers are using Sky+ to record without video tape, pause and rewind live TV, and record all episodes of a favourite series at the touch of a button...