Connected Television now brings so much more entertainment direct to your living room. Movies, photo albums, news, music videos and so much more can all be accessed by pressing a button on your TV remote. Add a camera and you can even make a free phone call with clear sound and video using Skype.

If you have seen these facilities a few years ago and they failed to impress it’s well worth another look now. Today there are a vast number of applications and they operate very much faster than before.

The most popular today is content streaming, services such as Iplayer, Youtube, Love film and Muzo TV to name just a few. These allow you to watch in high quality: programs, films, home videos or music videos, as and when you want them with minimal delay.

Content streaming may be described as a Pull service, the media you want is pulled from the internet to your TV when you want it. This can be much more convenient than waiting for a show to start on a traditional push service. With pay per view movies, such as those offered by Love Film, it may be more economical to pay for the films you watch rather than paying a monthly subscription.

Many connected products now feature DLNA, with this feature you to access your own content stored on any compatible device on your network. This may be your pictures, music or videos. Furthermore on some of the very latest equipment you can control how this media is shared with an Ipod Touch, Iphone or Ipad. Using this feature you can now easily select media the source and destination, for example you could choose to send music wirelessly from your Hifi to your clock radio, send video to from your player in the living room wirelessly to a television in the kitchen.

Video calls from your TV, Skype has for many years been the most popular method of making free calls with video between Skype enabled computers and a low cost method of making phone calls from Skype enabled equipment to normal phones. This facility is now very simple to use and available in many new televisions and Blu ray players. Simply connect a camera to the device, open an account and your ready to make free calls with quality video. There is presently no charge using Skype to make calls between Skype enabled equipment and credit card details are not required to open an account, a charge is made for making calls to mobile or fixed line telephones.

Video games can also be downloaded to the equipment; the selection is growing all the time, some have a small cost.

Browsing the Internet on TV is now possible too; on some equipment the service is no longer restricted to widgets and applications. A standard computer keyboard can be connected to many sets if you are a more serious user.

Our sales staff, technical installation staff, and after sales support staff are always on hand to ensure you are properly advised, everything works and that you get the most out of your new equipment.