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Sky UK

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Sky UK (formerly British Sky Broadcasting Limited, BSkyB and Sky) is a telecommunications company which serves the United Kingdom. [1]

187 relations: A&E Networks, Alec Shelbrooke, All 4, Animal Planet (UK TV channel), Apple Inc., Arqiva, Arsenal F.C., Astra (satellite), Astra 19.2°E, Astra 28.2°E, Astra 2A, Astra 2C, Astra 2E, Astra 2F, Asymmetric digital subscriber line, At the Races, BabyTV, BBC, BBC HD, BBC iPlayer, BBC Online, Be Un Limited, Bluetooth, Bravo (UK TV channel), British Satellite Broadcasting, Broadband, BT Group, Challenge (TV channel), Channel 4, Channel 5 (UK), Channel One (UK and Ireland), Chief executive officer, Chris Bryant, Cisco Systems, Cisco Videoscape, CNET, Comedy Central (UK and Ireland), Comedy Central Extra, Conditional-access module, Conservative Party (UK), Crime & Investigation Network (Europe), Daily Mail, Despicable Me 3, Digibox, Digital Spy, Digital terrestrial television, Digital Video Broadcasting, Digital video recorder, Discovery (UK and Ireland), Discovery History, ..., Discovery Home & Health, Discovery Networks Northern Europe, Discovery Science (TV channel), Discovery Shed, Discovery Turbo, DMAX (UK TV channel), Dolby Digital, Dot-com bubble, DVB-S2, Easynet, Electronic program guide, Eurosport, Eutelsat, Eutelsat 33C, Free-to-air, Freesat from Sky, Freeview (UK), Gordon Brown, H2 (A&E Networks), Hard disk drive, Haymarket Media Group, Hello Games, High Court of Justice, High dynamic range, High-definition television, History (European TV channel), Hotspot (Wi-Fi), Inside Out (2015 film), Internet service provider, Investigation Discovery (Europe), Isleworth, ITV (TV network), ITV Digital, ITV HD, ITV Hub, ITV plc, Ku band, Kung Fu Panda 3, LG Corporation, Lifetime (UK and Ireland), Living TV Group, Low-noise block downconverter, Manchester United F.C., Michael Grade, Microsoft, Microsoft Silverlight, Minions (film), Mobile virtual network operator, Modem, Monster Family, MPEG-2, MPEG-4, Must-carry, My5, Netflix, News Corporation, Nick Jr. (UK and Ireland), Nick Jr. Too, Nickelodeon (UK and Ireland), Nicktoons (UK and Ireland), No Man's Sky, Now TV (Sky plc), O2 (UK), Ofcom, On Demand (Sky), OneDrive, Open...., Openreach, Pick (TV channel), PlayStation 3, PlayStation 4, PlayStation Store, Polygon (website), Power-line communication, Premier League, Real Lives (TV channel), Rupert Murdoch, S4C, Sam Chisholm, Samsung, Satellite television, Setanta Sports, Sky Active, Sky Arts, Sky Atlantic, Sky Betting & Gaming, Sky Box Office, Sky Cinema, Sky Deutschland, Sky Go, Sky Ireland, Sky Italia, Sky Living, Sky Magazine, Sky Multichannels, Sky News, Sky News Arabia, Sky News Australia, Sky News Business Channel, Sky One, Sky plc, Sky Real Lives, Sky Sports, Sky Sports F1, Sky Sports News, Sky Television plc, Sky Travel, Sky Two, Sky UK, Sky Vision, Sky+, Sky+ HD, Sony, Streaming television, Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, Team Sky, Technicolor SA, Telecommunication, Telefónica, The Guardian, The Independent, The Lego Batman Movie, The Movie Channel (UK), The Secret Life of Pets, TLC (UK and Ireland), Triple play (telecommunications), Trouble (TV channel), UKTV, Ultra-high-definition television, United Kingdom, Video on demand, VideoGuard, Virgin Media, Virtual channel, Xbox 360, 2007–08 in English football, 3D television. Expand index (137 more) »

A&E Networks

A&E Networks (branded as A+E Networks) is a US media company that owns a group of television channels available via cable & satellite in the U.S. and abroad.

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Alec Shelbrooke

Alec Edward Shelbrooke (born 10 January 1976) is a British Conservative politician who has been Member of Parliament for Elmet and Rothwell since 2010.

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All 4

All 4 is a video on demand service from Channel Four Television Corporation.

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Animal Planet (UK TV channel)

Animal Planet is a television channel in the United Kingdom.

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Apple Inc.

Apple Inc. is an American multinational technology company headquartered in Cupertino, California, that designs, develops, and sells consumer electronics, computer software, and online services.

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Arqiva

Arqiva is a British telecommunications company which provides infrastructure and broadcast transmission facilities in the United Kingdom and the Republic of Ireland, along with commercial WiFi and smart meter facilities for Scotland and the north of England.

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Arsenal F.C.

Arsenal Football Club is a professional football club based in Islington, London, England, that plays in the Premier League, the top flight of English football.

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Astra (satellite)

Astra is the brand name for a number of geostationary communication satellites, both individually and as a group, which are owned and operated by SES S.A., a global satellite operator based in Betzdorf, in eastern Luxembourg.

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Astra 19.2°E

Astra 19.2°E is the name for the group of Astra communications satellites co-located at the 19.2°East orbital position in the Clarke Belt that are owned and operated by SES based in Betzdorf, Luxembourg.

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Astra 28.2°E

Astra 28.2°E is the name for the group of Astra communications satellites co-located at the 28.2° East position in the Clarke Belt that are owned and operated by SES based in Betzdorf, Luxembourg.

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Astra 2A

Astra 2A is one of the Astra communications satellites owned by SES.

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Astra 2C

Astra 2C is one of the Astra communications satellites owned and operated by SES.

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Astra 2E

Astra 2E is one of the Astra communications satellites owned and operated by SES, launched to the Astra 28.5°E orbital slot on 30 September 2013 after a 10-week delay caused by rocket launcher problems.

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Astra 2F

Astra 2F is one of the Astra communications satellites owned and operated by SES, launched in September 2012 to the Astra 28.2°E orbital slot.

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Asymmetric digital subscriber line

Asymmetric digital subscriber line (ADSL) is a type of digital subscriber line (DSL) technology, a data communications technology that enables faster data transmission over copper telephone lines than a conventional voiceband modem can provide.

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At the Races

At The Races is a British television channel owned by Sky plc and Arena Racing Company, owner of 23 (out of the 60) UK racecourses.

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BabyTV

BabyTV is a television channel for infants, toddlers, and parents, distributed worldwide by Fox Networks Group.

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BBC

The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) is a British public service broadcaster.

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BBC HD

BBC HD was a high-definition television channel provided by the BBC.

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BBC iPlayer

BBC iPlayer is an internet streaming, catchup, television and radio service from the BBC.

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BBC Online

BBC Online, formerly known as BBCi, is the BBC's online service.

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Be Un Limited

Be Unlimited (also traded as Be There or simply BE and latterly known legally as Sky Home Communications Limited) was an Internet service provider in the United Kingdom between 2004 and 2014.

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Bluetooth

Bluetooth is a wireless technology standard for exchanging data over short distances (using short-wavelength UHF radio waves in the ISM band from 2.4 to 2.485GHz) from fixed and mobile devices, and building personal area networks (PANs).

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Bravo (UK TV channel)

Bravo was a British television channel owned by Living TV Group, a subsidiary of BSkyB.

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British Satellite Broadcasting

British Satellite Broadcasting (BSB) was a television company, headquartered in London, that provided direct broadcast satellite television services to the United Kingdom.

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Broadband

In telecommunications, broadband is wide bandwidth data transmission which transports multiple signals and traffic types.

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BT Group

BT Group plc (trading as BT and formerly British Telecom) is a British multinational telecommunications holding company with head offices in London, United Kingdom.

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Challenge (TV channel)

Challenge is a British digital television channel owned by Sky plc.

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Channel 4

Channel 4 is a British public-service television broadcaster that began transmission on 2 November 1982.

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Channel 5 (UK)

Channel 5 is a British commercial television network.

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Channel One (UK and Ireland)

Channel One was a television channel owned and operated by Virgin Media Television and then Sky plc.

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Chief executive officer

Chief executive officer (CEO) is the position of the most senior corporate officer, executive, administrator, or other leader in charge of managing an organization especially an independent legal entity such as a company or nonprofit institution.

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Chris Bryant

Christopher John Bryant (born 11 January 1962) is a British Labour Party politician who has been the Member of Parliament (MP) for Rhondda since the 2001 general election and most recently the Shadow Leader of the House of Commons until resigning on 26 June 2016.

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Cisco Systems

Cisco Systems, Inc. is an American multinational technology conglomerate headquartered in San Jose, California, in the center of Silicon Valley, that develops, manufactures and sells networking hardware, telecommunications equipment and other high-technology services and products.

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Cisco Videoscape

Cisco Videoscape (Formerly NDS Group Ltd.) is a former Israeli development group that has been acquired by Cisco, which develops software for the pay TV industry (including cable, satellite and others). NDS Group was established in 1988 as an Israeli start up company. It was acquired by Cisco in 2012. The company is currently headquartered in Staines, United Kingdom. Filling The Executive Chairman and CEO roles at NDS is Abe Peled with former CEO Dave Habiger having left in 2012. The company's major product is the VideoGuard conditional access system, which is used by more than 85 leading pay TV operators around the world. NDS technology includes end to end connections for satellite, broadband IPTV, Hybrid, OTT, and EPGs. It has launched VideoGuard Connect, the DRM for Pay-TV, designed to help TV operators to seamlessly extend their pay-TV services to connected media devices, enabling secure ingestion, delivery and consumption of premium content over both managed and OTT networks while maintaining subscription privileges across devices. NDS also provides advanced advertising, professional services and system integration services. New ways to secure content on PCs, tablets, and other devices are displayed at IBC and CES. Cisco Systems announced the acquisition of the company in March, 2012. It was later acquired successfully and in 2014 its name was changed into Videoscape, becoming a part of Cisco.

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CNET

CNET (stylized as c|net) is an American media website that publishes reviews, news, articles, blogs, podcasts and videos on technology and consumer electronics globally.

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Comedy Central (UK and Ireland)

Comedy Central is a television channel that carries comedy programming, both original and syndicated.

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Comedy Central Extra

Comedy Central Extra is a television channel shown in United Kingdom and the Republic of Ireland.

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Conditional-access module

A conditional access module (CAM) is an electronic device, usually incorporating a slot for a smart card, which equips an Integrated Digital Television or set-top box with the appropriate hardware facility to view conditional access content that has been encrypted using a conditional access system.

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Conservative Party (UK)

The Conservative Party, officially the Conservative and Unionist Party, is a centre-right political party in the United Kingdom.

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Crime & Investigation Network (Europe)

Crime & Investigation Network (Europe) (branded as Crime+Investigation) is a pan-European television channel broadcasting programmes related to crime, investigation and mystery.

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Daily Mail

The Daily Mail is a British daily middle-marketPeter Wilby, New Statesman, 19 December 2013 (online version: 2 January 2014) tabloid newspaper owned by the Daily Mail and General Trust and published in London.

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Despicable Me 3

Despicable Me 3 is a 2017 American 3D computer-animated action comedy film produced by Illumination Entertainment for Universal Pictures.

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Digibox

The Digibox is a device marketed by Sky UK in the UK and Ireland to enable home users to receive digital satellite television broadcasts (satellite receiver) from the Astra satellites at 28.2° east.

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Digital Spy

Digital Spy is a British-based entertainment, TV and movies website and brand, and is the largest digital property at Hearst UK.

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Digital terrestrial television

Digital terrestrial television (DTTV or DTT) is a technology for broadcast television in which land-based (terrestrial) television stations broadcast television content by radio waves to televisions in consumers' residences in a digital format.

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Digital Video Broadcasting

Digital Video Broadcasting (DVB) is a set of internationally open standards for digital television.

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Digital video recorder

A digital video recorder (DVR) is an electronic device that records video in a digital format to a disk drive, USB flash drive, SD memory card, SSD or other local or networked mass storage device.

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Discovery (UK and Ireland)

Discovery (formerly Discovery Channel) is an English speaking channel which targets the United Kingdom and Ireland, operated by Discovery Networks Western Europe.

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Discovery History

Discovery History is a channel with programming about history from Discovery Networks Northern Europe.

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Discovery Home & Health

Discovery Home & Health is a television channel based in the United Kingdom.

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Discovery Networks Northern Europe

Discovery Networks Northern Europe is a branch of Discovery Networks International.

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Discovery Science (TV channel)

Discovery Science is a TV network, a subsidiary of American Discovery Networks International, it targets several European countries' television markets.

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Discovery Shed

Discovery Shed is a TV channel in the United Kingdom from Discovery Networks Northern Europe which replaced Discovery Real Time Extra.

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Discovery Turbo

Discovery Turbo (previously known as Discovery Turbo MAX in Australia) is a television channel devoted to programming about transport.

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DMAX (UK TV channel)

DMAX is a TV channel in the United Kingdom and Ireland.

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Dolby Digital

Dolby Digital is the name for audio compression technologies developed by Dolby Laboratories.

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Dot-com bubble

The dot-com bubble (also known as the dot-com boom, the dot-com crash, the Y2K crash, the Y2K bubble, the tech bubble, the Internet bubble, the dot-com collapse, and the information technology bubble) was a historic economic bubble and period of excessive speculation that occurred roughly from 1997 to 2001, a period of extreme growth in the usage and adaptation of the Internet.

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DVB-S2

Digital Video Broadcasting - Satellite - Second Generation (DVB-S2) is a digital television broadcast standard that has been designed as a successor for the popular DVB-S system.

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Easynet

Easynet was a managed service provider and delivered integrated networks, hosting and unified communications services to organisations globally.

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Electronic program guide

Electronic program guides (EPGs) and interactive program guides (IPGs) are menu-based systems that provide users of television, radio and other media applications with continuously updated menus displaying broadcast programming (TV listings in the UK) or scheduling information for current and upcoming programming.

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Eurosport

Eurosport is a pan-European television sports network, owned and operated by Discovery, Inc. Discovery took a 20% minority interest share in December 2012, and became the majority shareholder in the Eurosport venture with TF1 in January 2014, taking a 51% share of the company.

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Eutelsat

Eutelsat S.A. is a European satellite operator.

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Eutelsat 33C

Eutelsat 33C (formerly Eurobird 1 and Eutelsat 28A) is a Eutelsat operated Eurobird satellite, used primarily for digital television.

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Free-to-air

Free-to-air (FTA) are television (TV) and radio services broadcast in clear (unencrypted) form, allowing any person with the appropriate receiving equipment to receive the signal and view or listen to the content without requiring a subscription, other ongoing cost or one-off fee (e.g. Pay-per-view).

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Freesat from Sky

Freesat from Sky is a British satellite television service from Sky UK.

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Freeview (UK)

Freeview is the United Kingdom's digital terrestrial television platform.

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Gordon Brown

James Gordon Brown (born 20 February 1951) is a British politician who was Prime Minister of the United Kingdom and Leader of the Labour Party from 2007 to 2010.

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H2 (A&E Networks)

H2 is a brand name owned by A&E Networks (a joint venture between the Hearst Communications, and the Disney–ABC Television Group division of The Walt Disney Company), used for a sister television channel of History.

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Hard disk drive

A hard disk drive (HDD), hard disk, hard drive or fixed disk is an electromechanical data storage device that uses magnetic storage to store and retrieve digital information using one or more rigid rapidly rotating disks (platters) coated with magnetic material.

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Haymarket Media Group

Haymarket Media Group is a privately held media company headquartered in London.

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Hello Games

Hello Games Ltd is a British video game developer and publisher based in Guildford, England, who are best known for the science fiction adventure game No Man's Sky.

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High Court of Justice

The High Court of Justice is, together with the Court of Appeal and the Crown Court, one of the Senior Courts of England and Wales.

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High dynamic range

High dynamic range (HDR) is a dynamic range higher than what is considered to be standard dynamic range.

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High-definition television

High-definition television (HDTV) is a television system providing an image resolution that is of substantially higher resolution than that of standard-definition television, either analog or digital.

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History (European TV channel)

History (formerly known as History Channel UK) is a European television channel which broadcasts programs related to historical events and persons.

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Hotspot (Wi-Fi)

A hotspot is a physical location where people may obtain Internet access, typically using Wi-Fi technology, via a wireless local area network (WLAN) using a router connected to an internet service provider.

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Inside Out (2015 film)

Inside Out is a 2015 American 3D computer-animated comedy-drama film produced by Pixar Animation Studios and released by Walt Disney Pictures.

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Internet service provider

An Internet service provider (ISP) is an organization that provides services for accessing, using, or participating in the Internet.

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Investigation Discovery (Europe)

Investigation Discovery (abbreviated as ID) is a television channel available in several European nations.

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Isleworth

Isleworth is a small town of Saxon origin sited within the London Borough of Hounslow in west London, England.

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ITV (TV network)

ITV is a British commercial TV network.

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ITV Digital

ITV Digital was a British digital terrestrial television broadcaster which launched a pay-TV service on the world's first digital terrestrial television network.

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ITV HD

ITV HD is a British free-to-air high-definition television channel operated by ITV plc, the company which is contracted to provide 11 ITV services across the UK.

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ITV Hub

The ITV Hub (formerly ITV Player) is an online video on demand service accessible though the main ITV website itv.com.

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ITV plc

ITV plc is a British media company based in London, England.

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Ku band

The Ku band is the portion of the electromagnetic spectrum in the microwave range of frequencies from 12 to 18 gigahertz (GHz).

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Kung Fu Panda 3

Kung Fu Panda 3 is a 2016 3D computer-animated martial arts comedy film produced by DreamWorks Animation and distributed by 20th Century Fox.

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LG Corporation

LG Corporation (Korean: 주식회사 LG), formerly Lucky-GoldStar (Korean: Leogki Geumseong 럭키금성/樂喜金星), is a South Korean multinational conglomerate corporation.

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Lifetime (UK and Ireland)

Lifetime is a British entertainment television channel that launched on 4 November 2013, owned by A&E Networks UK, a joint venture between A&E Networks and Sky plc.

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Living TV Group

Living TV Group was a British television consortium originally called Flextech before becoming a subsidiary of British Sky Broadcasting, with Sky Living, Real Lives, and Challenge still broadcasting.

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Low-noise block downconverter

A low-noise block downconverter (LNB) is the receiving device mounted on satellite dishes used for satellite TV reception, which collects the radio waves from the dish and converts them to a signal which is sent through a cable to the receiver inside the building.

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Manchester United F.C.

Manchester United Football Club is a professional football club based in Old Trafford, Greater Manchester, England, that competes in the Premier League, the top flight of English football.

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Michael Grade

Michael Ian Grade, Baron Grade of Yarmouth, (born 8 March 1943) is an English television executive and businessman.

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Microsoft

Microsoft Corporation (abbreviated as MS) is an American multinational technology company with headquarters in Redmond, Washington.

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Microsoft Silverlight

Microsoft Silverlight (or simply Silverlight) is a deprecated application framework for writing and running rich Internet applications, similar to Adobe Flash.

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Minions (film)

Minions is a 2015 American 3D computer-animated comedy film, serving as a spin-off prequel to the ''Despicable Me'' franchise.

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Mobile virtual network operator

A mobile virtual network operator (MVNO), virtual network operator (VNO), or mobile other licensed operator (MOLO), is a wireless communications services provider that does not own the wireless network infrastructure over which it provides services to its customers.

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Modem

A modem (modulator–demodulator) is a network hardware device that modulates one or more carrier wave signals to encode digital information for transmission and demodulates signals to decode the transmitted information.

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Monster Family

Monster Family (otherwise known as Happy Family) is a 2017 British-German computer animated horror comedy film directed and produced by Holger Tappe, and co-written by David Safier, from his children's book Happy Family.

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MPEG-2

MPEG-2 (a.k.a. H.222/H.262 as defined by the ITU) is a standard for "the generic coding of moving pictures and associated audio information".

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MPEG-4

MPEG-4 is a method of defining compression of audio and visual (AV) digital data.

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Must-carry

In cable television, governments apply a must-carry regulation stating that locally licensed television stations must be carried on a cable provider's system.

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My5

My5 (previously Five Download and later Demand 5) is the brand name of video-on-demand services offered by Channel 5 in the United Kingdom.

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Netflix

Netflix, Inc. is an American over-the-top media services provider, headquartered in Los Gatos, California.

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News Corporation

The original News Corporation or News Corp. was an American multinational mass media corporation headquartered in New York City.

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Nick Jr. (UK and Ireland)

Nick Jr. is a British television channel in the United Kingdom and Ireland operated by a joint venture between Viacom International Media Networks Europe and Sky plc.

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Nick Jr. Too

Nick Jr.

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Nickelodeon (UK and Ireland)

Nickelodeon is a British television channel that is dedicated to kids' programming.

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Nicktoons (UK and Ireland)

Nicktoons is a British/Irish digital television channel, launched on 22 July 2002.

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No Man's Sky

No Man's Sky is an action-adventure survival game developed and published by the indie studio Hello Games.

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Now TV (Sky plc)

Now TV (presented as NOW TV) is a telecommunications company with operations in the United Kingdom, Republic of Ireland, and Italy.

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O2 (UK)

Telefónica UK Limited (trading as O2 – stylised as O2) is a telecommunications services provider in the United Kingdom, owned by the Spanish multinational Telefónica, and is headquartered in Slough.

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Ofcom

The Office of Communications (Y Swyddfa Gyfathrebiadau), commonly known as Ofcom, is the UK government-approved regulatory and competition authority for the broadcasting, telecommunications and postal industries of the United Kingdom.

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On Demand (Sky)

On Demand is the brand-name of a range of services from Sky designed to compete with video on demand services currently offered by rival companies such as Virgin TV or BT TV as well as internet television services such as Amazon Prime Video and Netflix.

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OneDrive

OneDrive (previously SkyDrive, Windows Live SkyDrive, and Windows Live Folders) is a file hosting service operated by Microsoft as part of its suite of Office Online services.

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Open....

Open.... was the trading name of Open Interactive Limited, which was a subsidiary of British Interactive Broadcasting.

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Openreach

Openreach is a functional division of telecommunications company BT plc, that owns and maintains the telephone wires, ducts, cabinets and exchanges that connect nearly all homes and businesses in the United Kingdom to the national broadband and telephone network.

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Pick (TV channel)

Pick is a British television channel, available via Freeview, Freesat, Sky and Virgin Media.

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PlayStation 3

The PlayStation 3 (PS3) is a home video game console developed by Sony Computer Entertainment.

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PlayStation 4

The PlayStation 4 (PS4) is an eighth-generation home video game console developed by Sony Interactive Entertainment.

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PlayStation Store

The PlayStation Store (also abbreviated as PSN Store) is a digital media store available to users of Sony's PlayStation 3, PlayStation 4, PlayStation Vita and PlayStation Portable game consoles via the PlayStation Network.

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Polygon (website)

Polygon is an American video game website that publishes news, culture, reviews, and videos.

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Power-line communication

Power-line communication (PLC) carries data on a conductor that is also used simultaneously for AC electric power transmission or electric power distribution to consumers.

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Premier League

The Premier League is the top level of the English football league system.

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Real Lives (TV channel)

Real Lives is a British television channel owned by Sky plc.

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Rupert Murdoch

Keith Rupert Murdoch, (born 11 March 1931) is an Australian-born American media mogul.

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S4C

S4C (from the Welsh Sianel Pedwar Cymru, meaning "Channel 4 Wales") is a Welsh-language British public-service TV channel broadcast throughout the UK and Republic of Ireland.

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Sam Chisholm

Samuel Hewlings "Sam" Chisholm AO (born 1939) is a New Zealand-born media executive who has been a significant figure in the Australian media.

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Samsung

Samsung is a South Korean multinational conglomerate headquartered in Samsung Town, Seoul.

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Satellite television

Satellite television is a service that delivers television programming to viewers by relaying it from a communications satellite orbiting the Earth directly to the viewer's location.

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Setanta Sports

Setanta Sports was a sports television company based in Dublin, Ireland.

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Sky Active

Sky Active is the brand name for interactive features on Sky Digital and is available in the UK and the Republic of Ireland.

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Sky Arts

Sky Arts (originally launched as Artsworld) is an art-oriented television channel offering 24 hours a day of programmes dedicated to highbrow arts, including theatrical performances, movies, documentaries and music (such as opera performances and classical and jazz sessions).

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Sky Atlantic

Sky Atlantic is a television channel owned and operated by Sky plc.

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Sky Betting & Gaming

Sky Betting & Gaming is a British-based gambling company, majority owned by CVC Capital Partners, with headquarters in Leeds, West Yorkshire and offices in Sheffield, London, Guernsey, Rome and Germany.

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Sky Box Office

Sky Box Office is the name of Sky plc's pay-per-view (PPV) system operated in the United Kingdom and the Republic of Ireland.

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Sky Cinema

Sky Cinema (formerly Sky Movies) is the collective name for the premium subscription television film channels operated in the United Kingdom and the Republic of Ireland by Sky plc.

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Sky Deutschland

Sky Deutschland AG, branded as Sky, is a German media company which operates a direct broadcast satellite Pay TV platform in Germany, Austria and Switzerland (through Teleclub) offering a collection of basic and premium digital subscription television channels of different categories via satellite and cable television.

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Sky Go

Sky Go (formerly known as Sky Player, Sky Anytime on PC and Sky By Broadband) is an online television service from Sky which launched in January 2006.

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Sky Ireland

Sky Ireland Limited is a subsidiary of Sky plc and supplies television, internet and telephony services in Ireland.

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Sky Italia

Sky Italia is an Italian digital satellite television platform owned by Sky plc.

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Sky Living

Sky Living is a British television channel, airing in the United Kingdom and Ireland, owned and operated by Sky plc.

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Sky Magazine

Sky Magazine (or 'Sky Mag') was a magazine distributed to subscribers of the BSkyB satellite service Sky Digital.

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Sky Multichannels

Sky Multichannels was a package of analogue television channels offered by BSkyB on the Astra satellites at 19.2° east.

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Sky News

Sky News is a 24-hour international multimedia news organisation based in the UK that started as a 24-hour television news channel.

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Sky News Arabia

Sky News Arabia (سكاي نيوز عربية) is an Arabic news and current affairs channel broadcast mainly in the Middle East and North Africa.

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Sky News Australia

Sky News Australia (branded on air as Sky News Live, and until 18 January 2015 as Sky News National) is an Australian 24-hour cable and satellite news channel available on the Foxtel and Optus Television subscription platforms.

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Sky News Business Channel

Sky News Business Channel (also known as Sky News Money during primetime and Sky News Real Estate on Saturdays) is an Australian 24-hour cable and satellite business news channel, available nationally on the Foxtel subscription platform and via mobile through Foxtel Go.

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Sky One

Sky One is a British general entertainment channel operated and owned by Sky plc, available in the United Kingdom and Ireland.

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Sky plc

Sky plc is a pan-European British media and telecommunications company headquartered in London.

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Sky Real Lives

Sky Real Lives was an in-house channel from BSkyB that showed extensive programmes about travel, adverts for travel agencies and documentaries.

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Sky Sports

Sky Sports is a group of sports television channels operated by the satellite pay-TV company Sky plc.

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Sky Sports F1

Sky Sports F1 is a television channel created exclusively for Sky's UK and Ireland coverage of Formula One, with Sky having a package of rights from the 2012 season to the 2024 season.

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Sky Sports News

Sky Sports News (SSN) is a 24-hour sports news television channel in the United Kingdom, the Republic of Ireland and Nordic countries.

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Sky Television plc

Sky Television plc was a public limited company which operated a nine-channel satellite television service, launched by Rupert Murdoch's News International on 5 February 1989.

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Sky Travel

Sky Travel was first launched on 3 October 1994 (and later in 2003 relaunched as Sky Travel Shop) and showed extensive programmes about travel, adverts for travel agencies, and documentaries, with Sky Travel Shop being the adverts for travel agencies.

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Sky Two

Sky Two is a British digital television channel operated by Sky plc as a sister channel to Sky One and Sky Living.

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Sky UK

Sky UK (formerly British Sky Broadcasting Limited, BSkyB and Sky) is a telecommunications company which serves the United Kingdom.

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Sky Vision

Sky Vision is a production and distribution company founded by Sky plc in 2012.

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Sky+

Sky+, or Sky Plus, is a personal video recorder (PVR) service for Sky in the UK.

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Sky+ HD

Sky+ HD is the brand name of the HDTV service launched by Sky plc on 22 May 2006 in the United Kingdom and Ireland to enable high definition channels on Sky to be viewed.

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Sony

is a Japanese multinational conglomerate corporation headquartered in Kōnan, Minato, Tokyo.

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Streaming television

Streaming television (or streaming TV) is the digital distribution of television content, such as TV shows, as streaming video delivered over the Internet.

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Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program

The Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), formerly known as the Food Stamp Program, provides food-purchasing assistance for low- and no-income people living in the United States.

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Team Sky

Team Sky is a British professional cycling team that competes in the UCI World Tour.

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Technicolor SA

Technicolor SA, formerly Thomson SARL and Thomson Multimedia, is a French multinational corporation that provides services and products for the communication, media and entertainment industries.

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Telecommunication

Telecommunication is the transmission of signs, signals, messages, words, writings, images and sounds or information of any nature by wire, radio, optical or other electromagnetic systems.

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Telefónica

Telefónica, S.A. is a Spanish multinational broadband and telecommunications provider with operations in Europe, Asia, and North, Central and South America.

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The Guardian

The Guardian is a British daily newspaper.

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The Independent

The Independent is a British online newspaper.

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The Lego Batman Movie

The Lego Batman Movie is a 2017 3D computer-animated superhero comedy film, produced by Warner Animation Group.

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The Movie Channel (UK)

The Movie Channel was a British television channel, which only aired movies.

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The Secret Life of Pets

The Secret Life of Pets is a 2016 American computer-animated comedy film produced by Illumination Entertainment.

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TLC (UK and Ireland)

TLC is a British TV channel owned by Discovery Networks Northern Europe, based on the American channel of the same name.

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Triple play (telecommunications)

In telecommunications, triple play service is a marketing term for the provisioning, over a single broadband connection, of: two bandwidth-intensive services, broadband Internet access and television, and the latency-sensitive telephone.

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Trouble (TV channel)

Trouble was a free-to air television channel operating in the United Kingdom and Ireland that was owned and operated by Virgin Media Television.

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UKTV

UKTV is a British multi-channel broadcaster, jointly owned by BBC Studios (formerly BBC Worldwide) and Discovery, Inc. It was formed on 26 March 1992 through a joint venture between BBC and Thames Television.

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Ultra-high-definition television

Ultra-high-definition television (also known as Ultra HD television, Ultra HD, UHDTV, UHD and Super Hi-Vision) today includes 4K UHD and 8K UHD, which are two digital video formats that were first proposed by NHK Science & Technology Research Laboratories and later defined and approved by the International Telecommunication Union (ITU).

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United Kingdom

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom (UK) or Britain,Usage is mixed with some organisations, including the and preferring to use Britain as shorthand for Great Britain is a sovereign country in western Europe.

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Video on demand

Video on demand is a programming system which allows users to select and watch/listen to video or audio content such as movies and TV shows whenever they choose, rather than at a scheduled broadcast time, the method that prevailed with over-the-air programming during the 20th century.

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VideoGuard

VideoGuard (sometimes referred to simply as NDS), produced by NDS, is a digital encryption system for use with conditional access television broadcasting.

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Virgin Media

Virgin Media Limited is a British company which provides telephone, television and internet services in the United Kingdom.

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Virtual channel

In most telecommunications organizations, a virtual channel is a method of remapping the program number as used in H.222 Program Association Tables and Program Mapping Tables to a channel number that can be entered via digits on a receiver's remote control.

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Xbox 360

The Xbox 360 is a home video game console developed by Microsoft.

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2007–08 in English football

The 2007–08 season was the 128th season of competitive football in England.

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3D television

3D television (3DTV) is television that conveys depth perception to the viewer by employing techniques such as stereoscopic display, multi-view display, 2D-plus-depth, or any other form of 3D display.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sky_UK

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