All3Media, producer of Skins, Midsomer Murders, The Cube and Peep Show, has struck a deal to launch a video-on-demand app on internet-connected Samsung and LG smart TVs.
Freeview Connect aims to create an industry-standard technology and service that will be acceptable to all TV manufacturers and ensure the prominence of PSB services and content on smart TVs.
The broadcasters have banded together to establish a new service to make their catch-up TV services – BBC iPlayer, ITV Player and 4oD – available as standard on smart TVs.
These days, you're likely to get flatscreen TVs and chocolate truffles along with the uninterrupted views and peaceful idyll which a farmhouse location traditionally affords.
Snowden said: "The types of collection in the book – microphones and video cameras, TVs that watch us – are nothing compared to what we have available today.
Edmonton designed and made the Lee rifle and Bren gun; it gave the BBC its transmitters; and British households their first solid-state colour TVs and dishwashers.
Chief executive Philip Clarke insisted the decline was part of a plan to move away from selling consumer electronics, such as flat-screen TVs.
The Ugadale golf cottages are designed in a traditional style – plaid carpets and bed throws, leather chairs and dark polished furniture – with power showers and flatscreen TVs, and can be rented by the night or the week.
The number of TV and DVD rental outlets has dropped 98% over the past decade as the weekend ritual of renting a film is replaced by streaming services from businesses such as Netflix, which pipes movies and TV shows direct to TVs and tablets.
Stay in the wonderfully peaceful Casa Hassan, (casahassan.com), two townhouses split across a narrow alleyway which are free of telephones, TVs and the internet, but which boast a fabulous hammam, traditional restaurant and roof terraces with spectacular views.
"Examples might include smart-TVs, new on-demand streaming services, smartphones and games consoles," said a spokeswoman.
