OnTheCouch 084 - Umbrellas and Robots - 17 Jul 2008
Internet ad spend slows, PCCW up for sale, Google Streetview come to the UK, 1.5T on a drive, Targeted ads, Go!View on the PSP, Moviebeam update, iPhone apps, E3 update, BigDog Robot and the unbreakable umbrella
OnTheCouch 083 - The Third Coming - 11 Jul 2008
iTV ad revenue down, YouTube ad sales, DirecTV million remote bookings, BBC signs up with Bablegum, 70% of UK digital, iPhone 3G launch and apps coverage and more!
OnTheCouch 082 - All your Youtube are belong to us - 3 Jul 2008
Helio bites the dust, Virgin warns over file sharing, Symbian Nokia deal, Youtube coughs up user records, Intel down on Vista, iPhone HK data plans, PS3 new firmware wipes your disk
OnTheCouch 081 - Advertising to Aliens - 27 Jun 2008
Nokia buys Plazes, ICANN opens up new TLDs, PS3 delivers VOD, iPhone app store starts, iPlayer update, Gaming update, Advertising to Aliens
OnTheCouch 080 - Robots and walled gardens - 19 Jun 2008
Microsoft acquires Navic, MHP goes free, Cherrypal saves watts, Sproutcore, Microsoft DRM backdown, Walled gardens on mobile content, Youtube long form, waterproof phones, Nokia's latest plans, casual gaming and robots.
OnTheCouch 079 - Shut up R2! - 13 Jun 2008
Yahoo and Google cuddle up, YouTube adds video annotations, TakeTV gets taken away, TF1 on demand, iPhone update, Xbox RROD, Console sales, Videotape rescue, and The FogScreen.
OnTheCouch 078 - Space Toilet - 28 May 2008
DVD sales down but not out, Tru2way takes off, Sky deliverys multiplatform day and date, Philips RelaxTV, Space toilet clogs...
OnTheCouch 077 - Wii king of the console - 23 May 2008
Technology buying trends, Nvidia and Rayscale, iPhone speeds, Microsoft Mediaroom, iPlayer on the Mac, iPhone world domination, Wii king of the console wars, Underpants that measure blood pressure(!)
OnTheCouch 076 - PS2 Cash Cow - 16 May 2008
BT Vision subs jump, CBS buys CNet, 3m Picoprojector in Samsung, Sky Player, Kangaroo update, 3G iPhone news, Disney game service, Guitar hero with drums and more!
OnTheCouch 075 - FreeSat and FreeNails - 8 May 2008
Microsoft eyes off Facebook, Carphone partners with Best Buy, FreeSat launches in UK, Nine inch nails give it away, AppleTV gets movies in UK, iPhone v2 smoke, Take two takes $500m, New game download service from Blizzard.
OnTheCouch 074 - Beer and Earthquakes - 23 April 2008
Apple buys PA Semi, Sony buys Gracenoote, Gambling on ITV in Oz, Yahoo says maybe, Order beer on your DS, DRM turned off, iPhone goes wild and more!
OnTheCouch 073 - Keeloq cracked - 17 April 2008
Keeloq cracked, 10 billion video views, Tesco sells mp3s, Interactive TV ad revivied, iPhone round up, PS3 Home and more!
OnTheCouch 072 - The Smell Phone - 10 April 2008
Digital switch off in the US, Ofcom ponders sharing license fee, Tring me, iPlayer for the Wii, Adobe media player, O2 says 128Kbps is all you need, TV rights and the Smell Phone!
OnTheCouch 071 - Extreme Ironing - 4 April 2008
Rapture loses BSkyB appeal, MySpace gets online music, Comcast rolls out Docsis 3.0, Sprint delays WiMax, Codafone bets on LTE, Apple number 1 and more!
OnTheCouch 070 - BlueHack - 26 March 08
OfCom auctions spectrum, ITV revamp, Dish's satellite woes, BD+ hacked, WiMax attacked, Channel 4 joins iTunes, Motorola splits and more!
OnTheCouch 069 - You are surrounded - 29 February 2008
Virgin fights back, FTA satellite on France, LCDs take on CRTs, PVRs increase viewing, The road to 4G, Gaming controllers, Surround sound and more!
OnTheCouch 068 - Pico Projectors - 22 February 2008
Bill Gates on Yahoo, BSkyB appeal, 100m STBs in 2007, HD-DVD really really dead, pico projectors, BBC on itunes and more!
OnTheCouch 067 - Space Tug - 14 February 2008
Yahoo update, Play.com gets DRM free content, AppleTV 2.0, BT Vision, 3GSM, PS3 sales, GDC and the Space Tug.
OnTheCouch 066 - Death of HD-DVD - 24 January 2008
Wifi TV goes live, Netflix takes on Apple, Warner ditches HD-DVD, Apple takes the cash, Half US has digi TV, HK goes digital, Mobile TV in Africa and more!
Length - 37:45
OnTheCouch 065 - 2008 Crystal Ball - 20 December 2007
Pace eats Philips, DirecTV buys replayTV, IPTV doesn't happen in 2007, What to do with all that spectrum, User Experience focus, Wiifit is the new wii thing, Apps for your iphone, GPS devices start getting smarter, Wimax takes over the world!
OnTheCouch 064 - Patently Obvious - 5 December 2007
Tivo patent upheld, UK broadcasters combine for VOD, Verizon goes LTE, EU chooses DVB-H and more!
Length - 31:57
OnTheCouch 063 - From Russia with love - 26 November 2007
IPTV in Thailand and Malaysia, OLPC hands on, Online TV from Pioneer, DRM free downloads from Russia, iPhone apps coming, DS gets TV, PSP goes online and more!
Length - 30:24
OnTheCouch 062 - Dumping Blu-ray - 15 November 2007
New FCC cable regulations, cheap HD-DVD players, Paramount dumps blu-ray, iPhone UK launch, gaming update and more!
Length - 28:45
OnTheCouch 061 - Open Social - 9 November 2007
Movielink update, Facebook, Comcast, Danish record labels, BabelTV, Wifi-TV, NGage delayed, GPhone, iPhone in UK, Top Gear and more!
Length - 29:52
OnTheCouch 060 - Pirate TV - 19 October 2007
Whitehaven goes digital, BBC chops off a leg and goes with Flash, Yes in Israel hit by interference, TimeWarner delivers 150k opencable boxes, iTunes goes DRM free and more!
Length - 30:48
OnTheCouch 059 - Artificial Life - 12 October 2007
FOWA and Digg, Network DVR in Spain, Radiohead goes donationware, BT partners with Fon, Joost signs ITN and opens up, Nokia buys Navteq, Artificial Life, WiiFit
Length - 31:12
OnTheCouch 058 - An iPhone in the hand - 27 September 2007
BBC trust ok for HD, DirecTV HD lineup, Echostar eats Sling, TataSky, Free shows on iTunes, Virgin unplugs, Dlink takes on Apple, iPhone review, Halo takes $174m, Psp slim, Women gamers and more!
Length - 37:52
OnTheCouch 057 - HD Confusion - 21 September 2007
UK Digital Status, Long-form Sky iAds, Tivo gets $100m, ReplayTV lives, Consumers confused by HD and more!
Length - 26:50
OnTheCouch 056 - IBC Roundup 07 - 14 September 2007
Apple UK event, IBC roundup, Analogue TV in the US, Sony unplugs Connect, Sony delivers blu-ray recorder, New Creative Zen, IPTV status, TV channels should pay for mobile, Wii wins and more!
Length - 30:51
OnTheCouch 055 - Learning Swahili - 31 August 2007
1 million more UK homes online, iTunes TV shows in UK, Cablelabs update, DirecTV and NFL over broadband, Tafiti, Hulu, Adobe Air, N-Gage and MapWii
Length - 32:38
Digital Vision now has it's own feed - 30 August 2007
Digital Vision Podcast is now on it's own feed. Please go to www.digitalvisionpodcast.com and subscribe there for some great interviews with media industry leaders.


OnTheCouch 054 - Playing with the iPhone - 24 August 2007
UK mobile data, Virgin boss quits, BT powerline data, Tivo in Oz, iPhone in China, CnBoo, Internet killing TV, DRM-free content from Walmart, and more!
Length - 28:58
OnTheCouch 053 - James on Fire - 16 August 2007
ISPs demand cash for BBC's iPlayer bw, Digital switchoff in Finland, Echostar update, IBC themes, Watching Blu-ray, Universal drops DRM, Internet shifts to content, Google video shuts, IPTV in AsiaPacific, MobileTV in Germany, Home on PS3 and more!
Length - 35:32
OnTheCouch 052 - Death of the Lobster - 2 August 2007
Sky eats Amstrad, U-verse is really cable, DirecTV and Tivo, Echostar Piracy, 700Mhz spectrum sale , YouTube fingerprinting, Lobster gets it, PS3 to get digital tuner, Blu-ray camcorders come online
Length - 29:35
Digital Vision 005 - Interactive at the BBC - Louisa Heinrich - 2 August 2007
The BBC is a long-time proponent of interactive services. But how do they make services work well for different types of devices and different sorts of people? And what's coming up for the BBC's interactive services? This week we chat with Louisa Heinrich, Executive, User Experience and TV Platforms, to find out.
Length - 27:43
OnTheCouch 051 - Game On - 26 July 2007
BBC iPlayer launch, DTH in India update, Motorola posts loss, Blu-ray on Target, Joost hits a million, iPhone carrier revenue and sales, Console and game sales, DS live at the baseball, In-game ads and James attends a conference in Second Life.
Length - 32:04
OnTheCouch 050 - iPhone blending - 20 July 2007
Ocean Blue middleware, Carlyle bids for Virgin Media, BBC cancel phone-ins, IPTV in Delhi, 400M MPEG ST chips, Skinkers, Blend your iPhone, New PSP, WiiFit, Rockband, Gesture remote for your TV
Length - 32:50
Digital Vision 004 - Magazine Publishing - Stuart Rock - 4 July 2007
Stuart Rock, co-founder and editor of Caspian Publishing has been in the magazine business for many years. He's seen the dot-com boom come and go, and the rise of content delivery via new means. How has he handled the challenges of getting great content to people? Hear his insights as to the future of paper and electronic publishing, including recommendations, personalisation and social networking.
Please see www.digitalvisionpodcast.com to subscribe.
OnTheCouch 049 - Mechanical Turk - 28 June 2007
UK digi penetration, Cablecard on Sunflower, Joost on TV, Pandora TV, Backspace IPTV, Commercial DVB-H in Malaysia, iPhone hype, Nintendo rules Sony, Wii online, Mechanical Turk and ChaCha
Length - 31:08
Digital Vision 003 - User Centred Design - Natalie Webb - 28 June 2007
It's not enough to have a great looking product these days, or even a beautiful web site. To stand out your business needs a product or service that people love to use. To find out about usability and user centred design, we talk to usability consultant, Natalie Webb from Amber-light in London.
Length - 22:31
OnTheCouch 048 - Project Kangaroo - 28 June 2007
Freeview PVR launches, Cable card arrives, Blockbuster picks Blu-ray, BitTorrent SDK, Reeltime gets more cash, Project Kangaroo, Solar powered mobile, Shake to Shuffle, Manhunt2 and more!
Length - 31:20
Digital Vision 002 - The Future of News - Mark Dixon - 21 June 2007
SPECIAL PREVIEW of our new podcast. With newspaper ad revenue falling and new ways people are receiving their news, it seems that the physical newspaper is on its way out. To find out the real story, we talk the Group Head of Travel for News International, Mark Dixon.
Length - 18:13
OnTheCouch 047 - Anaphylactic Shock - 14 June 2007
Analogue switchoff in Whitehaven, BT vision lights up, DTT in Spain, Please don't Tivo, Shanghai media triples subs, iPhone is a sandbox, Helio.com, Wake on lan
Length - 28:36
DigitalVision 001 - Sky News on Second Life - Nicola Jude - 11 June 2007
SPECIAL PREVIEW of our new podcast. In the first episode, we talk to Nicola Jude who has brought Sky News into Second Life. What does this mean for Sky News? How did they go about it? And what are their plans for the future? Nicola lets us in on what's happening in the virtual world.
Length - 24:44
OnTheCouch 046 - Opening the iPhone - 7 June 2007
BT's still got no vision, DTT update for HK and Spain, AppleTV with 160Gb and YouTube, Audio bitrates, DVRs give us better ads, Apple opens the iPhone, Wii light sabre
Length - 36:02
OnTheCouch 045 - The Gold Bar - 30 May 2007
Ofcom decides not to sell, Tivo in Oz, US digital switch off, Finland allows DVD decrption, Ooyala, Allpay.tv, DOS in Estonia, BT Vision unwrapped, Mobile Watch, iPhone confirmed, T-mobile portal, Phones preventing car accidents in Japan, DVB-H trial in Delhi
Length - 36:52
OnTheCouch 044 - Double Death - 25 May 2007
Sky expands HD, drops Sky+ charge and loses on Freeview, Motorola tries to takeover the world, Energy saving on STBs, HDMI - what's it good for?, Texting from Everest, PS3 with VOD
Length - 27:23
OnTheCouch 043 - Selling the Penguin (c) - 18 May 2007
BT Vision, Comcast ditches Microsoft, Amazon DRM-free music, ABC streams HD, MySpace starts TV, Download to own is dead, Disney sells 24M TV shows, iPhone update, Green phones, 40 years of Video games, Kids create games, Sony looks to buy Club Penguin
Length - 28:53
OnTheCouch 042 - Mobile Satellite TV - 11 May 2007
ITV's new web tv, DirecTV goes mobile, Apple goes green, Cox kills ad skipping, Blip.tv, Joost gets cash and bandwidth problems, Mobile TV in the UAE, Sky news on Second Life.
Length - 29:12
OnTheCouch 041 - Goat Parties - 3 May 2007
Sky results, BBC goes with Windows DRM, India pay TV eclipses Japan, Patents and PVRs, ACSS code on Digg, IPTV changes how people watch TV in France, Aggregator.TV dies, Orange mobile into UGC, Sony (ab)uses dead goat, PSP and PS3Eye camera released, Motion sensing research from BT
Length - 30:19
OnTheCouch 040 - Curing Cancer - 26 Apr 2007
Freeview overtakes Sky, TV in Turkey, Hi-def update, Cablevision fight on, Apple results, Jack9 the man's man, Aggregator TV, Silverlight, 3, Curing cancer on the PS3, EA catches up on the Wii, Make famous Miis
Length - 34:10
OnTheCouch 039 - Australian Sunshine - 4 Apr 2007
ITV gets FA cup, Virgin bundles over DSL, Australian media laws, China standards, EMI goes DRM-free, Skycast, Youtube and Audible magic, Fastweb sold to Swisscom, Wii rules and more!
Length - 33:22
OnTheCouch 038 - I want my PS3 - 28 Mar 2007
Sky VOD, No to RS-DVR, Triple play in US, AppleTV, the album dies (again), YouTube competition, PS3 released in Europe and Australia
Length - 33:11
OnTheCouch 037 - 3D TV - 20 Mar 2007
Mobile TV in Ireland, CurrentTV in UK, Analog switch off in US, CeBIT update with 3D TV, Bablegum plans long tail, Blu-ray cracks Amazon top 10, New internet TV options, PSP redesign, PS3 launch

Length - 29:32
OnTheCouch 036 - Mind Control - 8 Mar 2007
Sky and Virgin Media, ITV kills premium calls, AT&T rollout slows, Amazon Unboxed on TiVo, Digimark watermarks, Bittorrent goes ligit, IPTV world forum update, IPTV middleware, Apple TV, Mobile TV content, Sony Home and Mind Control for games

Length - 29:14
OnTheCouch 035 - Mars TV - 28 Feb 2007
BBC Freesat, Verisign and Entriq, Decoder subsidies in Italy, Cloning HD-DVDs, Sony's cheap blu-ray, Australian pirates, MP3 patent disputes, Downloading worth $4bn by 2011, Apple TV delay, Wii, Network connections to Mars
Competition: WIN - Wii points and WiiPlay!

Length - 35:52
OnTheCouch 034 - Solar Powered Podcast - 21 Feb 2007
BBC goes VOD on FreeView, Napster Exec goes BBC Radio 2, Siruis and XM merge, Mediahighway takes on South America, MHP licensing, DVR users do watch ads, Moving content, Joost on the Mac, Mobile TV and power reduction.
Length - 33:06
OnTheCouch 033 - Guitar Hero - 15 Feb 2007
Freeview channels want HD space, Indonesia Pay TV status, PlayReady DRM, ACSS hacked, Stumble TV, AT&T selects MediaFlo, Liquid Lens for mobile camera, Branson's games, Wii Voting, Apple stores open everywhere
Length - 27:27
OnTheCouch 032 - Sword Wielding Robots - 9 Feb 2007
Sky goes pay terrestrial, Chinese patent royalties, CD sales slide, Apple says no to DRM, Wal-Mart downloads, IPTV growth in 2006, Orange and Vodafone share 3G, Dwango, Xbox360 2.0, N-Gage 2.0, Wii controlled sword wielding robots
Competition - who was the lead cartoon character in the movie Happy Feet? Email feedback@onthecouchpodcast.com for great Happy Feet prizes.

Length - 28:11
OnTheCouch 031 - Exploding Satellites - 1 Feb 2007
BBC iPlayer, Italian broadcasters in trouble, hi-def porn, YouTube revenue, Blu-Ray defeated, Sky downloads, AT&T IPTV rollout, Joost strangles the Internet, VOIP on mobiles, URL entry on your phone, Mobile content study, Tringo on interactive, Machinima, Exploding satellites
Length - 32:00
OnTheCouch 030 - Losing Lobsters - 23 Jan 2007
BBC licence fee, Pay TV in India, Adult content on HD-DVD, Nielsen measuring ads on DVRs, 4od, Joost, Babelgum, Losing lobsters, Lose weight playing the Wii, Finding lost memory cards with the Loc8tor
Length - 29:06
OnTheCouch 029 - Snow in Vegas - 16 Jan 2007
The digital dividend, CES overview, Apple TV, LG dual format player, HD pirates, IPTV on Xbox 360, Apple iPhone, December next gen console sales, Second Life goes open source
Length - 31:56
OnTheCouch 028 - Christmas Crystal Ball - 20 Dec 2006
James and Ian discuss what's happened during 2006 in the world of television and entertainment and make some wild and crazy predictions about where they think the entertainment industry will go in 2007.
Length - 32:03
OnTheCouch 027 - Wii Love - 11 Dec 2006
70 years of TV, Sky and Google, Murdoch and Malone, Netherlands switch off, The Venice Project, BT switches on, Telefonica holds on Mobile TV, GPS on PSP, Wii released in UK
Length - 26:54
OnTheCouch 026 - Lucid Dreams - 1 Dec 2006
BT has a new Vision, Echostar and Tivo, 30% penetration of DVRs, Does the HTDV business model stack up?, YouTube not just young people, AllOfMP3 is down (or up), Wal-mart goes downloads, IPTV takes over the world, Opera Mini V3, Mobile ghettoblasters and Lucid Dreams
Length - 25:24
OnTheCouch 025 - Sonic Gold Rings - 23 Nov 2006
Lots of news this week! Sky messes with NTL, Channel 4 VOD service, Cable box interop, HBO delivers via Internet, Interactive TV status, ReplayTV back from the dead, IPTV delivery options, mobiles get cheap calls on the net, new gaming console roundup, Nintendo DS goes MP3, USB video compression accelerator and Second Life gets the worms!
Length - 34:42
OnTheCouch 024 - Air Guitar T-Shirt - 17 Nov 2006
NTL/ITV tie-up, 3 with Sling/Skype, Electronica, Myspace at $6B, iPods on planes, Tivo connects to the net, Pogo shares mobile files, iPhone roumours, PS3 and Wii hit the streets, Air guitar tshirt and Second Life gets cloned
Length - 27:07
OnTheCouch 023 - 10 Nov 2006
Five News takes on citizen journalists, NTL becomes Virgin, Cablevision's network DVR update, Xbox 360 downloads content, iPod content, iLike, IPTV in France, Mobile TV at 80mph, wireless YouTube, PS3 and PSP news and Second Life newspaper!
Length - 36:51
OnTheCouch 022 - 31 Oct 2006
BBC and Sky dominate the UK's third screen, Virgin Mobile Lobster, China's mobile TV standards, Asian cable piracy, Skype into IPTV, S-Band for mobile TV, Nintendo Wii for senior citizens, D900 Samsung mobile and Lance Armstrong chats with James about his exercise program
Length - 35:04
OnTheCouch 021 - 23 Oct 2006
Telstra goes Next G, Viva Pinata, Satellites in orbit, HDTV over IPTV, Walmart into IPTV, TV on mobile in Oz, DS games for Christmas, the state of the games industry, second life update and James tried running with his new iPod.
Length - 28:29
OnTheCouch 020 - 11 Oct 2006
Al Gore gets into BSkyB, Digital update in the UK, Telcos getting into satellite, Sell or lease your STB?, GooTube, Web overtaking newspapers in Europe and more!
Length - 29:53
OnTheCouch 019 - 5 Oct 2006
BBC and Microsoft cosy up, digital TV upgrade in the US and South Africa, Wibree, Disney Mix Max, new Slingboxes, Disney's ESPN service shuts down, Second Life and the Massage Chair...
Length - 25:41
OnTheCouch 018 - 27 Sep 2006
Less TV for the young?, FX thwarts DVR ads, Mobile TV in Oz, Cable in India, Apple's iTV and movie downloads,PS3 gaming and Second Life update
Length - 31:05