Spanish TV series “The Plague” (La Peste) is the most expensive Spanish TV production to date with a budget of 10 million euros, around 200 actors, over 2,000 extras and 400 technical experts. The show is based in 16th century Seville, but as pretty much nothing of the city exists today it was up to […]
Amazon’s Prime Video service launched in Ireland back in December of last year. With the introductory pricing of €2.99 / month for the first six months it’s hard to knock the service’s value, though, like NetFlix when it launched the range of TV shows and movies is a little lacking. Amazon, however, have announced that […]
The new RTÉ Player International was launched yesterday by Ryan Tubridy, along with some other well known RTÉ faces. http://youtu.be/0l8el3KmbNY Based on a ‘freemium’ model, the app, which is available on iOS devices only, offers about 100 hours of free RTÉ programming, with up to 500 hours available for a subscription of €8.99 per month. […]
The Minister for Communications, Alex White, TD, yesterday signed the order designating the new UTV Ireland television service for carriage on SAORVIEW, the national free-to-air digital terrestrial television platform. The decision means that Irish television viewers who rely on the SAORVIEW platform will be able to view the new service when it launches on New […]
Sky Television has invested $500,000 into LA-based startup Pluto.TV. Pluto.TV aggregates online video content from the web and programmes it into themed video channels, i.e. it takes on demand video and turns it into video channels grouped by theme. It sounds like a backwards step in some respects. Podcasting, streaming and media on demand has freed […]
There are two kinds of people in Ireland: those who grew up with British TV and those who didn’t. For the second group, there will always be references that go right over our heads and for me, until recently, Doctor Who was among them. I missed the reboot of Doctor Who in 2005 because, by then, […]
So a bunch of Japanese guys decided to have a go at re-imagining Doctor Who. Am I the only one who thinks they’ve captured the essence of the Time Lord’s adventures? I particularly like the Sonic Screw Sword! This could catch on. Imagine Fawlty Towers next? Or Oireachtas Report? HT: Graham Cluley says it’s the “weirdest thing […]
So if you combine Frozen’s “Let It Go” with Game of Thrones the end result is .. well.. pretty epic I guess 🙂 (And yes, this does contain spoilers up until season 4 episode 2, so don’t watch if you want to avoid them)
You still can’t officially get Google’s Chromecast shipped to Ireland, but maybe we don’t care so much about that now, if the new Roku Streaming Stick lives up to its (very exciting) promise. Announced today, the new Roku® Streaming Stick™ (HDMI® version) is a tiny version of the Roku player that plugs directly into a HDMI port. […]
For the last few weeks I’ve been using Currency Fair to handle some of my foreign exchange requirements. It’s a very nice solution and merits a proper review at some point .. They’re about to launch a TV advertising campaign and have come up with their new icon – “Currency Fairy” played by none other […]
