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You might want to take a seat for this: YouView is about to leave the realms of the imaginary and enter the actual as public trials begin this week.

MTV has finally caught up with catch-up TV by launching a new site called MTV OD.

You'll soon be able to catch up on TV shows you missed by browsing backwards through the Freeview EPG.

Lord Alan Sugar has put the brakes on YouView's speculated May launch date as he doesn't think the service is good enough.

Netflix will be bringing its original series Lilyhammer to the UK after it has aired on BBC 4.

The arrival of Ultraviolet sees one analyst calling for the gap between cinema and home releases to be shortened.

The retail industry is completely behind UltraViolet, with retail group Dixons backing it for the long haul.

Week in Tech This week, we discovered that the new iPad gets quite warm, streaming is the future (no!) and Photoshop CS6 gets a public beta.

The BBC is putting measures in place so that it doesn't 'do a Kodak' with the iPlayer by innovating in the VOD space only for its rivals to overtake it further it down the line.

Exclusive It's time to forget about the traditional remote control, reckons the BBC, as it begins its first forays into gesture and voice control with its iPlayer for Xbox Live app.