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WebTVExtreme LLC Announces Special Holiday Entertainment

December 18th, 2010

Web TV Extreme LLC has announced the holiday special offers today at a press meet in New Jersey. One of the leading names among the online TV service providers, Web TV Extreme brings you thousands of channels that offer quality entertainment on your PC or laptop. You can get the best of TV entertainment right on your PC with Web TV Extreme.

A spokesperson on behalf of Web TV Extreme LLC told the press “Web TV Extreme LLC is proud to announce their holiday special offers. We bring you the highest number of TV channels you can ever get. The channels range from sports channels to movie network to international channels. The high quality entertainment brought to you via these channels is sure to make your holidays more entertaining.”

“Via Web TV Extreme,” he added, “The viewers can now enjoy the best of TV channels right on their PC or laptop. During the holidays each of these TV channels offer the best holiday programming. A subscriber of Web TV Extreme can enjoy all of these holiday special programming. These shows are sure to spice up their lives and set the right mood for Christmas.”

When asked about the quality of the channels he stated that “Web TV Extreme brings you thousands of satellite TV channels in digital quality. You can enjoy great picture quality and sound with these channels. Some of these channels also offer high definition programming.”

The spokesperson also stated that “Web TV Extreme will continue to offer thousands of great channels at the most affordable price. We are planning to expand our channels line-up to include a number of movie and sports channels in near future.”

With such great offering both in terms of quality and quantity, Web TV Extreme LLC is sure to find its niche in the web TV domain in the nation.

About Web TV Extreme LLC

Web TV Extreme LLC is a Utah-based company that offers thousands of choices in online entertainment via one console. The consumer can easily navigate as well as watch online TV and video content on their home PC with the help of Web TV Extreme. For more information log on to http://www.webtvextreme.com

Company: WebTVExtreme

Website: http://www.webtvextreme.com/

Address: 358 S 700 E, Suite B227

Zip code: 84102

City: Salt Lake City

State: UT

Contact Name: John plimer

Phone Number: 1- 877-294-2744

Email Id: [email protected]

Good Life Tampa Bay TV Show Brings You the Hottest Area Nightlife

February 22nd, 2010

Good Life Tampa Bay TV Show features fine cuisine and upscale entertainment from Tampa Bay’s finest venues.

February 22, 2010, Tampa, Florida – Those living in Tampa Bay do so for its unique style and flavor. Good Life Tampa Bay, Tampa Bay’s premier lifestyle show that reports on local flavor from the fast-growing Tampa Bay market, finds area restaurants and locales that feature what this great city has to offer.

Fine dining may be more traditional or more international, but the bottom line is quality. The Capital Grille has an American menu with handcrafted excellence, from their dry aged steaks to their homemade desserts. For more Italian charm, you’ll turn to the Donatello restaurant. Their strong tradition and ambience make one wonder whether they are in an old European villa after all.

Good Life Tampa Bay also knows that after fine dining, one needs an outlet for those calories. Dancing with a Latin twist can be found at Mirage, which features salsa, meringue, Bachata and reggaeton along with hip hop.

Good Life Tampa Bay host “H” John Mejia visited each of these venues and can attest they are each an experience you don’t want to miss.

About Good Life Tampa Bay:

Good Life Tampa Bay is Tampa Bay’s premier lifestyle show that brings you the people, places and events that are setting the lifestyle trends in the fast-growing Tampa Bay area.  Produced and hosted by  InTheZoneTV’s “H” John Mejia, “H”’s TV production experience started back in 1992 as an on-air sports reporter for the TV show “Cincinnati on The Go”.  “H” also created, produced and hosted the “Playboy Golf” show on Fox Sports Net and “Living the Good Life” on CN8 Comcast, which won three Accolade Awards in 2008.  During his career “H” has reported from the red carpet, at celebrity events, on travel shows and high profile corporate events. He has had the privilege to interview and feature many well-known celebrities and professional athletes, such as:

  • Hollywood Stars Ashton Kutcher, Demi Moore, Mark Wahlberg
  • American Idol Winner, Jordin Sparks
  • NFL Hall of Fame players Marcus Allen, Lawrence Taylor, Warren Moon and Eric Dickerson
  • John O’Hurley from Seinfeld
  • Emmy winner Jeremy Piven and Emmy nominated Kevin Dillon from Entourage
  • N Sync member and TV Host, Joey Fatone
  • Pop culture icon, Hugh Hefner
  • The Girls Next Door: Kendra Wilkinson, Holly Madison and Bridget Marquardt
  • Music Producer/Artist & Entrepreneur, Sean “P” Diddy Combs
  • Real Estate Developer & Billionaire, Donald Trump
  • Former Governor Jeb Bush
  • Former General Norman Schwarzkopf

Check out the Tampa Bay show that is tracking down the hottest tips and coolest finds at www.GoodLifeTampaBay.com or see it on TV on Brighthouse Channel 17 (the ION –TV station) in the Tampa Bay area.

Televisions reviews the Sony KDL-40 V 5810

February 17th, 2010

February 17, 2010 – Televisions.com’s test team draws on its extensive and credible experience to review the Sony KDL – 40 V 5810 leveraging subjective analysis coupled with objective laboratory measurements. This potent blend enables the testers to rate a 7.7 out of 10 points for the 40 inch Full HD Sony LCD TV. The review waxes eloquent about the TV’s impressively high contrast ratio, neutral colors, accurate 24p reproduction and the universal tuner (including CI+). The combination of first-rate features, images with rich contrasts and color consistency attribute the TV with a decent “Editor’s Rating”. The reviewer has voiced slight criticism for the TV’s poor motion clarity with standard signals and the lack of a full set of aspect-ratio settings. Televisions.com’s editor-in-chief, Florian Friedrich said: “The Sony KDL-40 V delivers and at first glance seems to rival bigger and better models and is a good buy.”

The later part of the review also showers praise on the multimedia capabilities of the TV with the USB and network connections providing brilliant photo-playback capabilities with the surprise display of even the camera metadata if present. State-of-the-art picture correction techniques find favour with the reviewers along with the CI+ DVB-C tuner meeting latest standards. The remote control is almost perfect, the only exceptions being the awkward placement of the picture format button at top of the device and the omission of the back button. The accurate scaling of cable and satellite pictures with a high degree of detail when coming from a digital tuner are impressive. Sony’s obvious attempt to cut costs by omitting the 100-200 hertz technology leaves a blemish on the otherwise pristine picture quality by attributing a blur to fast moving pictures such as in sports broadcasts. The review speaks highly of the superb quality of Blu-ray and HDTV signals from satellite receivers reproduced with sharpness and scaling exceeding expectations. The reviewers also claim that by lowering the backlight settings to half, the power consumption can be considerably reduced. The TV’s colors are praised highly in the review with minor deficiencies found only when compared to higher end benchmark models. A list of ideal settings is provided in the review that allows users to customize realistic playback of HDTV/Blu-ray material through the HDMI interface in a darkened environment: these settings were arrived at by professionally calibrating the TV in the test theatre of Televisions.com. The high quality picture had Friedrich impressed: “The impressive picture depth, superb black reproduction and true colors rank this TV high among its contemporaries.”

Press contact:
Matt Morgan
28 Magnolia Gardens
Edgware, Middlesex HA8 9GH, UK
Tel.: +91 2040 712 415,
eMail: [email protected]

Website: http://www.televisions.com/

25 years of Eastenders – but who is the best loved character?

February 17th, 2010

More than 2,300 members of the public were asked to vote for the Eastenders character they’d most like to share a takeaway with – with Alfie Moon, played by actor Shane Ritchie, topping the list of most loved characters. Janine Butcher is the most hated character from the last 25 years, with three quarters of the public admitting they disliked her.

Friday marks the 25th anniversary of popular British soap Eastenders, with a half hour live special episode.

To commemorate the occasion, the UK’s leading takeaway website www.Just-Eat.co.uk asked 2,310 members of the public to list the character they’d most like to ‘have a takeaway with’, in the style of the age old ‘who would you invite to a dinner party’ question.

When asked the multi-answer question, “Which Eastenders characters from the last 25 years would you most like to share a takeaway meal with?’, Shane Richie’s Alfie Moon, who first appeared in 2002 topped the poll with 42% of votes. The study was entirely hypothetical, and as such included characters which may no longer be alive.

Wellard, primarily owned by Robbie Jackson and Gus Smith was introduced to the show in 1994, and ranked as the 5th most popular character to share a takeaway with.

1. Alfie Moon – 42%

2. Kat Slater – 36%

3. Nigel Bates – 34%

4. Grant Mitchell – 33%

5. Wellard the Dog – 30%

6. Peggy Mitchell – 29%

7. Arthur Fowler – 26%

8. Dot Cotton – 25%

9. Ethyl Skinner – 22%

10. Pat Butcher – 20%

The poll also asked respondents to list the characters they loved to hate, with Janine Butcher, who has been portrayed by Rebecca Michael, Alexia Demetriou and most recently Charlie Brooks topping the list of the soaps most hated, with nearly three quarters of the public saying listing her as their least favourite character.

Half of the respondents said they’d least like to share a takeaway meal with Ian Beale, played by Adam Woodyatt – the longest serving character on the soap.

Just-Eat.co.uk asked the public, “Who would you least like to share a takeaway with?”. Here are the top ten most disliked characters from the show’s history:

1. Janine Butcher – 73%

2. Dirty Den Watts – 65%

3. Trevor Morgan – 63%

4. Nasty Nick Cotton – 62%

5. Lucas Johnson– 58%

6. Archie Mitchell – 57%

7. Steve Owen – 53%

8. Ian Beale – 50%

9. Frank Butcher – 41%

10. James Wilmott-Brown – 39%

The study also asked the respondents who they thought killed Archie Mitchell, the subject of Eastenders’ current ‘whodunnit’ storyline, coming to an end with Friday’s live episode.

49% of people think Stacey Slater is the murderer, whilst 23% thought Sean Slater was to blame. Janine Butcher is the killer according to 14% of people, with young Ben Mitchell behind the death in the minds of 11% of the respondents. Peggy Mitchell is the outside guess, with 3% saying they thought she did it.

David Buttress, UK Managing Director of Just-Eat had the following to say,

“The ‘most hated’ list reads like a takeaway gathering it’d actually be quite fun to attend!

“Our research shows that Just-Eat’s takeaway loving users are traditionally huge soap fans who tend to order online whilst they watch shows like Eastenders and Coronation Street, so we thought it’d be a lot of fun to see the characters they both loved and loved to hate.”

He continued,

“The live episode this Friday is a momentous occasion for the show – everybody is talking about who killed Archie and I’m sure it won’t disappoint!”

Links – http://www.Just-Eat.co.uk

For the history and background of Just-Eat, visit www.Just-Eat.com

ENDS

Sony XEL-1 under the microscope at Televisions

February 8th, 2010

February 08, 2010 – In a review published today, Televisions.com takes a closer look at Sony’s XEL-1 OLED TV, which hit the market early last year. The review includes subjective picture quality evaluation by experienced experts, as well as objective analysis using sophisticated measurement techniques. The combination of these approaches leads to an overall rating of 6.3 out of 10 points. Although the score is fairly low, the reviewer airs plenty of praise for the device’s picture. In fact, many of the criticisms went to the device’s more general characteristics – the small size, low resolution, and high price. The review praises, for example, the screen’s high motion clarity and excellent colours, as well as – thanks to the OLED technology – a sensational contrast ratio. And although the team gives the XEL-1 a fairly cool overall write-up, they seem highly impressed by OLED. Televisions.com‘s editor-in-chief, Florian Friedrich, said: “If development keeps going steady, OLED will one day outstrip both plasma and LCD. We’ll await future developments with bated breath.”

The review begins with a detailed explanation of how OLED works, and describes the technology’s current state of development. Much of the review’s early praise centres on the XEL-1‘s slender design, although the reviewer points out that the TV‘s compact dimensions restrict the space needed for other features. The only multimedia, for example, is a USB input for photo playback. The resolution is also unusually low, earning the TV genuine criticism. Operation-wise, the reviewer was generally impressed with the XEL-1‘s menu and the remote control’s design. Many of the picture-quality criticisms related to the low resolution, and the review is careful to draw attention to the screen’s impressive blacks and accurate colours. Friedrich added: “On the one hand, this miniature Sony impresses with perfect blacks and extraordinary motion-clarity. On the other hand, we have to admit that we were disappointed with the low resolution.”

Press contact:
Matt Morgan
28 Magnolia Gardens
Edgware, Middlesex HA8 9GH, UK
Tel.: +91 2040 712 415,
eMail: [email protected]

Sony PlayStation 3 Slim reviews published by Televisions

February 4th, 2010

February 4, 2010 – The international reviews website Televisions.com has today released its review of the Sony PlayStation 3 Slim. The team’s laboratory combines sophisticated measurement processes with subjective analysis to derive an overall rating for tested devices; the PlayStation 3 Slim scored 8.6 out of 10 points. The reviewers explain that they were already impressed with the original PlayStation 3, and that the Slim has cleared up many of its predecessor’s shortcomings – offering lower power consumption, enhanced operation thanks to HDMI-CEC support, a bigger hard drive, and bitstream output of HD audio. But the review also points out areas in which the player suffers the same problems as the original version – there’s no de-interlacing for 1080/50i or 1080/60i signals – and even placers where the new player lacks functionality seen in the earlier model – the SD-card reader has disappeared, for one. But don’t be fooled by the slight criticism – Televisions.com‘s editor-in-chief, Florian Friedrich, said: “The new slim version of the PlayStation 3 outperforms its predecessor – as well as being smaller and cheaper! On the wider market too, the wide range of functions makes it nigh-on unbeatable.”

Indeed, there’s plenty of praise to be found in Televisions write-up. Multimedia features heavily, with the reviewers paying tribute to the player’s “unrivalled versatility” in internet applications and network playback. There’s also automatic playlist detection for HD camcorder videos – this, again, earns special praise in the review. The reviewer’s tests revealed perfect Blu-ray picture quality, with flicker-free images and accurate levels for blacker-than-black and whiter-than-white content. Likewise, DVD playback receives plenty of compliments for its sharp, flicker-free images. The review ends with a table comparing the Slim with its predecessor – this makes it clear how much of an improvement Sony has made. One reviewer summarised the device’s performance by saying: “Although the Slim isn’t actually that much slimmer, you can’t fault its wide range of improvements over the original PlayStation 3. One of the best players on the market just got better.”

Press contact:
Matt Morgan
28 Magnolia Gardens
Edgware, Middlesex HA8 9GH, UK
Tel.: +91 2040 712 415,
eMail: [email protected]

Sharp LC-52 DH 77 E LCD TV reviews published by Televisions

February 3rd, 2010

February 3, 2010Televisions.com‘s review of the Sharp LC-52 DH 77 E draws on the test team’s years of experience to evaluate the TV’s performance using both subjective analysis and objective laboratory measurements. This combination allows the testers to derive an overall score of 7.4 out of 10 points for the Sharp. The review praises the TV’s high contrast ratio and accurate colours, as well as its faithful reproduction of 24p material. These factors suggest impressive overall picture quality, according to Televisions.com, and largely account for the TV’s decent “Editor’s Rating”. But the reviewer goes on to criticise the set’s poor motion clarity and lack of format switching for HD signals. While the review stops short of recommending the Sharp for the home cinema, the website’s editor-in-chief, Florian Friedrich, said: “Overall, the Sharp delivers a decent picture and is well suited to everyday TV viewing.”

There’s more praise later in the review: The remote control, for example, is said to be user-friendly, thanks to its small size and direct-access buttons. Standard-definition pictures get the thumbs-up, apart from some blur reported in dark areas of HDMI-576i pictures. High-definition signals also impress, although the reviewer notes a slight lack of accuracy and – again – some motion blur. Although the review quotes the set’s colour temperature at 6,300 Kelvin and praises the uniform grey balance, it also highlights colour errors, such as a green tint in blue areas – sky or ocean, for example. The review then offers users a list of ideal settings designed to optimise the TV‘s picture for the dark home-cinema environment – the reviewers determined these settings by calibrating the TV professionally in their test theatre. Of the HD picture, Friedrich added: “The 52-incher delivers a well-balanced HDTV picture. Night-time scenes mightn’t look quite as three-dimensional as on many other TVs, but the picture still provides impressive depth.”

Press contact:
Matt Morgan
28 Magnolia Gardens
Edgware, Middlesex HA8 9GH, UK
Tel.: +91 2040 712 415,
eMail: [email protected]

LG BD 390 reviews published by Televisions

February 1st, 2010

February 1, 2010 – The online reviews platform Televisions.com has reviewed LG’s BD 390, a Blu-ray and DVD player released in summer 2009. The review combines laboratory measurements with subjective picture- and sound-quality analysis to derive an overall rating of 8.9 out of 10 points for the device. The review praises many aspects of the BD 390′s performance – low power consumption, multimedia capabilities, and accurate Blu-ray playback – but highlights errors in its DVD de-interlacing. Nevertheless, praise also goes to the extensive connectivity and quiet operation; altogether, the device receives a very positive write-up from the Televisions.com reviewers. The site’s editor-in-chief, Florian Friedrich, said: “The BD 390 is a superb device that really can do everything: It delivers a first-class, extremely sharp, and colour-optimised Blu-ray picture, as well as YouTube videos and other multimedia treats.”

The reviewer expressed delight at the player’s extensive video-adjustment options, some of which they claim are a first in Blu-ray players. Further praise goes to the design of the LG‘s remote control, and especially to the flap concealing rarely used buttons. There’s criticism for the slight de-interlacing errors in 1080i material; otherwise, the reviewer cannot find fault with the LG’s BD playback. But while the 1080i errors are seen as a small hiccup, the review describes the DVD de-interlacing as a genuine weakness. Nevertheless, the overall verdict for DVDs is positive, with the reviewer simply remarking that other players perform better. Televisions.com also applauds the BD 390‘s versatile audio outputs. And although the reviewer recommends outputting audio digitally, praise goes to player for providing analogue audio signals for older AV receivers. One reviewer said: “With the BD 390, LG has produced a truly excellent Blu-ray player that caters to various users’ needs. Although we highlighted small errors in de-interlacing, both DVDs and Blu-rays play back excellently, earning the player a solid thumbs-up.”

Press contact:
Matt Morgan
28 Magnolia Gardens
Edgware, Middlesex HA8 9GH, UK
Tel.: +91 2040 712 415,
email: [email protected]

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Yamaha BD-S 1065 Blu-ray player reviews published by Televisions.com

January 30th, 2010

January 30, 2010Televisions.com has evaluated the Yamaha BD-S 1065‘s performance using a combination of laboratory testing and subjective output-quality analysis. In a review published on the site’s homepage today, this method of evaluation resulted in an overall rating of 7.8 out of 10. The review awarded points for the player’s high-quality output of film-based content, as well as its support for BD-Live, but expressed disappointment with the device’s DVD de-interlacing. Televisions.com also criticised the Yamaha’s audible fan and slow disc drive. The comprehensive audio outputs clearly impressed the review team and were perhaps the player’s biggest saving grace – the review applauds, for example, the presence of an analogue output for HD audio: “Yamaha‘s new BD player is one of only a few on the market to deliver the new audio formats Dolby TrueHD and DTS-HD to older HDMI-1.1 receivers that lack a bit-stream decoder.”

The review goes on to examine in detail the picture quality with DVDs and Blu-rays. High-definition signals from Blu-rays impress the reviewers, who describe the resulting pictures as flawless. It’s a different story with DVDs, which draw various criticisms from Televisions.com. The site’s editor-in-chief and head tester, Florian Friedrich, said in the review: “All test sequences from films or TV material – without exception – suffered from flicker. This is reminiscent of the first DVD players released in the 1990s!” There’s also harsh criticism of the lack of multimedia capabilities: The review points out that – via USB, at least – the player only supports BD-Live and JPEG playback, which is well below expectations for a device at this price point.

Criticism even extends to the player’s remote control, which, although easy to use, lacks direct-access buttons for rotating or zooming during photo playback. All in all, the review gives a fairly negative round-up of the Yamaha‘s performance. One reviewer summarised: “This is a great Blu-ray player, but that’s not enough these days. The only obvious reason to buy it is if you’re hanging on to an older AV receiver and need a 7.1-channel analogue output. Even then, there are better, cheaper players out there than can do the same as the Yamaha.”

Press contact:
Matt Morgan
28 Magnolia Gardens
Edgware, Middlesex HA8 9GH, UK
Tel.: +91 2040 712 415,
email: [email protected]

Sony KDL-52 Z 5800 LCD TV reviews published by Televisions

January 28th, 2010

January 28, 2010Televisions.com combines its team’s years of experience in the consumer-electronics industry with a measurement laboratory packed full of the latest high-tech analysis equipment. Subjective evaluation of design and picture quality joins evaluation of objective criteria such as contrast and brightness to form an overall rating for tested devices; the Sony KDL-52 Z 5800 scored 8.3 out of 10 points. The review pays tribute to the TV’s bright image and accurate colours, as well as to the inclusion of a universal multi-tuner for analogue TV, DVB-T, DVB-C, and DVB-S2. But the reviewer was disappointed by the TV’s poor motion clarity in film-based material and its inability to switch the format of up-scaled 4:3 pictures. Nevertheless, Televisions.com‘s editor-in-chief, Florian Friedrich, said: “Admittedly, 2,500 pounds isn’t exactly cheap for a TV, but the Sony is worth every penny – even despite weaknesses such as pronounced viewing-angle dependence.”

The KDL-52 Z 5800‘s multimedia capabilities get a very positive write-up from Televisions.com: The review praises, for example, the TV‘s internet access and streaming network playback. Easy operation earned the Sony more applause, although the reviewer pointed out some confusing quirks, such as awkward channel-list navigation for DVB-S. There’s more praise for both the standard- and high-definition picture quality, although SD signals are said to show slight noise, and HD shows some slight colour errors. The review then offers users a list of ideal picture settings designed to optimise the TV’s picture in the dark home-cinema environment – the reviewers derive these settings using measurement devices before going on to measure the TV’s power consumption and efficiency. Always measuring these values for an ideal picture setup levels the playing field for tested devices.

Friedrich summarised what the Sony has to offer: “The KDL-52 Z 5800 is Sony’s first TV with a universal multi-tuner, but that’s just one of many selling points – not least of which is the outstanding picture quality.”

Press contact:
Matt Morgan
28 Magnolia Gardens
Edgware, Middlesex HA8 9GH, UK
Tel.: +91 2040 712 415,
email: [email protected]