Archive for the 'TV News' Category
Monday, October 19th, 2009
Young Britons always leave the television on
A study carried out by the Energy Saving Trust has concluded that British children are the biggest offenders when it comes to wasting energy.
The study surveyed over 3,000 children, from the UK, France, Germany and Spain, quizzing them about their awareness of climate change and what their own energy saving habits were. 40 per cent of those questioned admitted to bad energy saving habits such as leaving lights on and televisions on standby.
As part of Energy Saving Week (19-25 October), which starts today, the Energy Saving Trust has given 50 children video cameras to film their families own energy habits to get a better idea of how they can improve the situation.
Monday, October 12th, 2009
Australian toddlers to get less TV
A set of new guidelines that are to be put forth by the Australian government are to advise childcare centres and parents that children under the age of two years should not be able to watch any television. Apparently the ban is recommended because television can hamper a child’s concentration abilities and language development.
In addition to an all-out ban for under-twos, the government is also recommending that children that are between two and five-years-old should watch a maximum of 1 hour of television per day. The guildelines are intended to prevent obesity spreading amongst children and are currently only in a draft format so are subject to change before being finalised.
Monday, October 5th, 2009
The Samsung widget TV
Despite most TV manufacturers researching heavily into 3D TVs, Samsung is going down a different route. Taking ideas from the apps trend that seems to be gripping the technologic world at the moment (see iPhone and PSP minis), he Samsung ‘Widget’ television is adopting a similar approach.
Building on their LE40B650 TVs, Samsung are integrating a widget experience which they are dubbing Internet@TV. At the moment the widget list is limited to a whopping four items, including weather and news widgets (aren’t there channels for these things?). Apparently more are on their way, including a YouTube app, and they can all be downloaded straight to the TV itself, as long as you have an ethernet connection nearby, because there’s no WiFi on this modern piece of tech.