Just twenty years ago if one wished to check out the upcoming programmes scheduled for the television, one either checked the newspaper or looked them up in a TV magazine. As print media has fallen by the wayside, most of us rely on the instant information offered by the internet. That resource has now expanded with an iPod / iPhone app that lets us check the evenings TV Freeview events. The app gives one immediate access to over 50 Freeview channels including BBC HD scheduling. As all of us seem far busier now than those leisurely days prior to the information technology age, systems like this Freeview app allow us to increase our efficiency in both planning our work and planning our play. The new app offers features such as placing channels in a favourite order and a text search. Use of one’s iPod for checking the scheduling of other cable TV providers has long been available by means of each company’s website. But this app for Freeview is a far quicker route to checking out Freeview as offered with the selection of BT Vision channels. As apps to check programming continue to appear on hand held devices and as devices such as the new iPad continue to appear, is there any doubt that a major convergence of all these communications technologies is going to occur? How long will it be before we not only check the evening’s schedule on our iPod but watch it as well. As TV packages from the United Kingdom’s major TV providers expand too through IPTV we shall all soon be carrying our favourite channels around with us in our pocket.


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