9 Channels for Apple TV

With Apple TV adding channels at a steady rate, the majority of which are going to US customers. In UK we get a steady increase of international channels and few UK Broadcaster.

Here are 9 international channels that would be good to
make it onto Apple TV.

TED Talks

The presentations over on Ted are both informative and engaging, great to sit and watch at any time. As Ted film and own rights to their talks its easy to see them coming to Apple TV. Just look at popularity of the ios app, this is a real winner.

NASA- In-fact even ESA

Space is big business at the moment as well as a fascinating subject. With vast amount in the archive and the increasing TV schedule this would be a great addition.

UStream

A bit of a whildcard choice but UStream does have lots of live and archive content. A bit like Youtube but aimed at live streaming. Ustream has a good mixture of content from wildlife cameras to space. It includes live shows and messages from soldiers home. This could easily become a solid channel.

Amazon Prime

This might be far fetched as Amazon now have FireTV coming out but they are loosing out to Netflix by not being on the platform.
Plus if your using an Amazon Prime membership anyway why not get the benefits out of it.

Flixster (Ultraviolet)

I just want access to my Ultraviolet account. flixster  is established in the UK and would be a great addition. Though you can access other movies the fact a lot of studios support Ultraviolet (poor mans iCloud) it's a big thing that should be supported.

BBC Store

BBC have been working on the BBC Store in secret for some time but I think the end result will be something Apple could not only benefit from but also is a internationally recognised brand that could benefit both companies.

BFI Player

the BFI are defiantly worth adding to the mix as they are growing their restoration archive for the masses and this can only benefit apple to bring more films that may not make it into the iTunes library straight away due to licensing issues. It's also great to showcase the great work BFI does and the British film industry as a whole.

Warner Archie

The Warner archive is a great player that's currently only US bound but with help of Apple TV they really could expand it beyond its initial offering. Aimed at tapping into those lesser montinized titles in the Warner Brothers Archive,this brings the TV and film that would sit nicely in uk for our silver surfer generation.

All 4 (formally 4OD)

British Broadcaster Channel 4 may be one of the youngest Broadcasters in UK but it was one of the first into the streaming On Demand environment. So confident infant it had made all its archive of owned shows available to all.



Apple may take the plunge and add any of these to the roster of apps. Though I think US is their first target rather than the UK, so I think we shall see more of those added first.

Though UK is very eager and willing to cut the cord more than any other country so maybe Apple should try to launch products outside US first. Now that would cause a stir.

Tech to wish for in 2015

Its a new year and I'm really eager to blog more. I've got lots of posts planed for 2015 some I probably should have posted in 2014 but didn't quite get around to finishing.


So to kick of the year I thought's do some tech wishes for 2015. I'm not saying these will make it to the UK market, but some are in US market so next logical step is Europe.

and after all we are in the future......

First on my list is Disc to Digital, now this is slowly growing in US but essentially is a way to get your DVD's onto the ultraviolet platform and then have ability to play them. I'd like to see this so I can get my large DVD collection in the cloud and eventually into HD (cost permitting). I though can't see why it has to be a cost per disc  CD ripping was around for years and then came iTunes Match and Amazons Auto Rip both of which brought those digital files to the cloud at a reasonable cost.

Oh how nice it would be to free my shelf space of DVD's.

This leads me to my next wish.

Ultraviolet  movie access across itunes/google play, if my collection is in the cloud i'd like to have option of where to watch it from. As an Apple fan I love using my Apple TV to watch my TV collection but my ultraviolet collection is a pain to watch currently its all third party apps which don't let me watch on my television easily or in HD.

One App that has enabled this and I'm really hoping will come to UK is Disney Anywhere  not only can you sync your movies between iTunes and Google it brings the great Disney collection together and all in HD and with iTunes Extras (which for me brings best of DVD to digital).

So keeping with movie theme I'd like to see the release of a TV next year and no not a TV made by apple (though look forward to seeing what they come up with) but a TV built on YouView technology.  Having owned a box I can say currently it is a great connected television box. Like with everything there are still a lot they've just not got right but I think they may just be about to fix all that with future upgrades.

Also if TalkTalk buy Tesco's Blinkbox then we could finally see Ultraviolet get a proper platform on TV in UK. Which if falling in place could see Youview as a technology moving across the world.

Before I move on from TV there is going to be an explosion of programs from British producers flooding the worldwide market in 2015 and it will all start with the launch of BBC Store. The one stop shop to get BBC programming from last 50 years. It will also mean other platforms getting access to these programs for their platforms and more as BBC attempts to untangle ownership rights so that all programs ever broadcast on BBC are released on demand. This will obviously see programs broadcast but not owned by other UK Broadcasters profited from for first time in years.

I better wrap up this blog but I think 2015 will be the year of innovation and introduction. We already can see technology for hover-boards on their way. I think its developments from these kind of projects and scientific endeavours that we shall see the biggest change in our lives.

Think new dentistry techniques coming to the market. New health treatments, automated houses, big data used to benefit our lives, the list goes on. I don't even know what to expect or to take educated guesses with.

I want to talk about so much technology in 2015 because I think it will be known as the year that inspired a generation. The year man kind reached a new technological peak. So I hope that I actually have some time to write about things this year as 2015 is ours to explore.