Television

Dish: Someone snatched our data, if you're wondering why our IT systems went down

Outage-hit telco still won't confirm ransomware infection, or if it's paying up

Cyber-crime28 Feb 2023 | 4

LG makes a TV roughly the size of a queen-sized bed

Claims it has 'the world’s largest' OLED

Personal Tech29 Aug 2022 | 61

Amazon has repackaged surveillance capitalism as reality TV

Column Smile! You're on Candid Doorbell – and the joke's on us all

Personal Tech24 Aug 2022 | 195

Star Trek's Nichelle Nichols closes hailing frequencies

OBIT Singer and actor was a trailblazer on and off the screen

Networks01 Aug 2022 | 47

Samsung accused of cheating on hardware benchmarks ... again

South Korean giant says it's in no way goosing TV HDR brightness

Personal Tech15 Jun 2022 | 19

Apple has missed the video revolution

Column COVID-19 turned many of us into media producers, but the tools favour Windows

On-Prem01 Mar 2022 | 62

Samsung adds non fungible token trading app to its tellies

Not as bonkers as it sounds seeing as Sammy suggests they’re already works of art

Personal Tech04 Jan 2022 | 30

Reg reader returns Samsung TV after finding giant ads splattered everywhere

Even your telly is now a moneymaking gadget for someone else

Security05 Nov 2021 | 203

Dulux feel lucky, punk? Samsung wades into paint world with interior emulsions designed to 'complement' your, er, TV

Yes your TV has a 'lifestyle'. Yes we have all been indoors for much, much too long

Bootnotes22 Oct 2020 | 30

Xiaomi turns 10 and celebrates by sitting down to relax in front of its new transparent television

And smartphone that shows you its innards if required

Personal Tech12 Aug 2020 | 31

Supra smart TVs aren't so super smart: Hole lets hackers go all Max Headroom on e-tellies

Video streams can be hijacked by anyone on your Wi-Fi

Security04 Jun 2019 | 33

'Occult' text from Buffy The Vampire Slayer ep actually just story about new bus lane in Dublin

And it's still a better love story than Twilight

Bootnotes19 Feb 2019 | 165

Brits whinging less? About ISPs, networks and TV? It's gotta be a glitch in the Matrix

Happy now? For realsies?

Personal Tech18 Jul 2018 | 35

Swiss see Telly Tax as a Big Plus, vote against scrapping it

Country says no in licence referendum

Legal05 Mar 2018 | 86

BT, Sky bury hatchet with deal to sell each other's telly channels

Intended to boost former state monopoly's 'ailing TV service'

Networks15 Dec 2017 | 36

Give us a bloody PIN: MPs grill BBC bosses over subscriber access

Sketch Now that's a hard one

Legal07 Nov 2017 | 104

Lord of the Rings TV show shopped around Hollywood

Rights carrot dangled before Netflix, Amazon and HBO, apparently

Bootnotes07 Nov 2017 | 164

FCC Commissioner blasts new TV standard as a 'household tax'

Americans will not only foot bill for implementation but will also need to buy another telly

Personal Tech13 Oct 2017 | 135

Despite high-profile hires, Apple's TV plans are doomed

Opinion It's 'Amazon' how far behind it is...

Personal Tech26 Jun 2017 | 69

TVs are now tablet computers without a touchscreen

And that's good because apps can handle codecs that broadcasters abandon

Personal Tech26 Apr 2017 | 133

Hold the phone! Crap customer service cost telcos £2.9 BEEEELLION in 2016

More moaned about than rail and energy, says ombudsman

On-Prem15 Feb 2017 | 44

Baird is the word: Netflix's grandaddy gets bronze London landmark

HD TV in 1945? Nearly

Networks30 Jan 2017 | 39

DirecTV Now plagued with faults, but uptake not slowing

AT&T's streaming service only behind HBO's despite user complaints

Personal Tech20 Jan 2017 | 10

Nielsen, eat your heart out: TiVo woos admen with prediction engine

Analysis Bringing more audience data to TV advertising

Personal Tech16 Jan 2017 | 21

TV5Monde was saved from airtime-KO hack by unplugging infected box

French telly station boss spills les haricots on what happened

Security10 Oct 2016 | 17

FCC death vote looms for the Golden Age of American TV

Special report The inside story of Google's plan to pwn the TV biz

Legal29 Sep 2016 | 46

TV industry gets its own 'dieselgate' over 'leccy consumption tests

Software that detects government tests, where have we heard that before?

Personal Tech22 Sep 2016 | 28

Sat TV biz Dish: I'm not an authorized iPhone repairer ... but $20 is $20

Budget telly outlet finds a second job to feed the kids

Personal Tech03 May 2016 | 21

Comcast stabs set-top boxes in the back, pipes directly into smart TVs

This wouldn't have anything to do with a recent FCC decision, would it?

Legal21 Apr 2016 | 20

Field technicians want to grab my tool and probe my things

Something for the Weekend, Sir? The TV repair man returns for the IoT age

Personal Tech08 Apr 2016 | 90

Ever wondered what the worst TV show in the world would be? Apple just commissioned it

Staring and screaming at Xcode – 11/10, would watch again

Legal25 Mar 2016 | 91

El Reg mulls entering Robot Wars arena

Vulturebot death machine? A lovely idea

Science18 Jan 2016 | 183

Cartoon brings proper tech-talk to telly

Amazing Gumball character 'bypassed storage controller, decrypted disks, accessed ESXi server cluster'

Legal25 Nov 2015 | 37

Pimp your TV: Goggle box gadgets and gizmos

FEATURE Blinged up audio a must

Personal Tech17 Oct 2015 | 37

4K catches fire with OTT streamers, while broadcasters burn

Breaking Fad TV industry looks to UHD Phase II, but Amazon delivers now

Legal08 Oct 2015 | 87

Are Samsung TVs doing a Volkswagen in energy tests? Koreans hit back

Motion Lighting mode is a feature, not a cheat, says biz

Personal Tech01 Oct 2015 | 44

Sharp's new TV has over 7,000 lines of pixels – but there's NOTHING TO WATCH

8K vids years away as £85,000 telly goes on sale

Personal Tech17 Sep 2015 | 40

Sony sends muso stratowards on vintage TV set

Kelvin Jones croons from the upper atmosphere in a retro stylee

Science15 Sep 2015 | 14

Apple: Hey TV people, wanna be in the same place Samsung phones are these days?

Do you wanna make telly shows with us – or with the losers?

Legal01 Sep 2015 | 16

Think beyond the Beeb: Gov consultation is crucial for free telly

Breaking Fad Channelling some answers for Auntie

Legal31 Jul 2015 | 77

Time for a brutal TELLY-OFF: Android TV versus Firefox OS

Breaking Fad The fight for the living room's future is on

Personal Tech17 Jul 2015 | 70

UK TV is getting worse as younglings shun the BBC et al, says Ofcom

Religion, formal education, classical music? What’s that?

Legal03 Jul 2015 | 111

Vodafone splashes €2 BEEELLLION to kick German TV sideways

Achtung, die Engländer haben mein Tellyboxsignalfrequenzen gekauft

On-Prem23 Jun 2015 | 15

Phone-home service Lebara launches prepaid TV offering

Roll up for Bollywood and Nollywood ... but no IPL cricket

Systems22 Jun 2015 | 1

Entertaining prospect: Amazon Fire TV Stick

Review HDMI telly streaming dongle with X-Ray vision

Personal Tech13 Jun 2015 | 40

Spanish TV journo leaves subordinates cowering after verbal shoeings

Vigón cleavage issues not adequately addressed

Legal10 Jun 2015 | 42

Silicon Valley, episode 9: Too sexy for this headline, too sexy...

Recap Crotch touching, lawyers, of course it's on HBO

Bootnotes10 Jun 2015 | 1

US court agrees $563m settlement over CRT anti-trust allegations

TV-buying class members start the party in anticipation of $25 payouts

Legal02 Jun 2015 | 7

Network negotiations nix 2015 Apple TV streaming

Maybe 2016, maybe not

Legal02 Jun 2015 | 11

CBS boss says he'll show off his crown jewels on Apple TV – for a large enough check

Only a matter of time before network succumbs to Cupertino

SaaS27 May 2015 | 6

Fox gives Minority Report the nod – precog goes primetime on tellybox

Steven Spielberg chooses exec producer credit

Legal10 May 2015 | 26

Stubborn 'won't fix' Google U-turns on Chromecast vid judder twitching-eye blunder

Euro customers: 'Well, that was unexpected'

Personal Tech03 May 2015 | 26

ISIS: You bomb us, we’ll interrupt your TV transmissions

French broadcast signal affected, social media disturbed

Legal09 Apr 2015 | 35

Wanna stream live TV to your Playstation? Get a Vue of Sony's new stuff

Games console biz launches telly subscription from $50 a month

SaaS18 Mar 2015 | 5

Telly behemoths: Does size matter?

Feature And in Blighty, does class matter even more?

Personal Tech01 Mar 2015 | 138

Don't pay for the BBC? Then no Doctor Who for you, I'm afraid

MPs revive pay-per-Auntie conditional access plan

Legal26 Feb 2015 | 156