News from the Media World

In the news this week, Virgin Media hope that their set top boxes, offering the new TiVo service, will be launched by the end of the year. They believe that the boxes will be more user friendly than the current V+ set top box. The company has also revealed a new fundraising scheme: every time a visitor to their website watches a video clip, the company will make a donation to the Sir Bobby Robson Foundation. An extra 10% will be added should England win the World Cup.

In other news, the BBC has unveiled a new version of its on-demand video service iPlayer, that enables users to share content via social networking sites such as Facebook and Twitter, as well as link to content on ITV, Channel 4 and Five's own players.

Finally, The Independent have conducted an interesting interview with the women in charge of rivals Freeview and Freesat.

BBC enables users to share content through social media on the iPlayer

Virgin Media looking forward to new STBs

Strike threat at BT as boss gets £3m pay package

Freeview vs Freesat

In more general news The Times and Sunday Times have unveiled their new look websites, Shortlist reports a substantial increase in revenues and the Apple Ipad arrive in the UK.

The Times and The Sunday Times unveil new look websites

Shortlist revenues almost double