http://www.locatetvblog.com Official blog for LocateTV - A streamlined and comprehensive search engine for TV and Film across the globe – currently in private beta. Read here for development updates and upcoming new features. Sat, 16 Aug 2008 11:55:47 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Hopefully by now you will have noticed we recently made some major changes to the LocateTV homepage to make it easier to use and highlight some of the great features we have on the site, such as What's On TV, My Picks and the new Seasons Starting This Week. For those ... http://www.locatetvblog.com/a-walk-down-memory-lane/ Many TV shows are best viewed in episode sequence. For a great story, like Battlestar Galactica, you really want to start watching at the beginning of a season. If you are lucky enough to own a Digital Video Recorder (DVR) then you will want to start by recording episode 1. For ... http://www.locatetvblog.com/start-watching-tv-seasons-from-the-first-episode/ Just a quick post to talk about some of the great fansites that have recently started using our embeds: www.lovelylivtyler.com - offers up-to-date news about actress Liv Tyler, including interviews, photographs and a fan forum. They also link to relevant video clips on YouTube - everything a Liv fan needs. www.vince-vaughn.com - ... http://www.locatetvblog.com/fan-site-highlights/ Recently we rolled out shiny new designs for the LocateTV embeds. We hope that these will enable fansite and blog owners to more cleanly let their readers know when their favourite shows are next on. As always the embed information is dynamically updated for the location of the person viewing ... http://www.locatetvblog.com/new-cleaner-designs-for-the-embeds/ So you've found a great TV show or movie on LocateTV and it's next on the Hallmark channel. Hmmm... what number is that channel on? LocateTV has the answer! If you set your TV service provider (click the flag icon in the search bar) LocateTV will now show you channel numbers ... http://www.locatetvblog.com/what-number-is-that-channel-on/ It is now a few weeks since we introduced our new TV guide - What's On TV and already it is one of the most used pages on our site. The aim of What's On TV is simply to answer the question of what can I watch on TV right now. ... http://www.locatetvblog.com/whats-on-tv-a-new-tv-guide/ If you have Firefox 2+ or Internet Explorer 7+ you can now add LocateTV to your search bar in the upper-right corner of your browser, allowing you to quickly search LocateTV for your favourite TV shows, movies or actors. Adding LocateTV to your search bar is simple... just visit any page ... http://www.locatetvblog.com/add-locatetv-to-your-search-bar/ I watch many of the big shows on TV and the more I watch, the more I see links between my favorite shows. You know what it's like... you're watching a new episode of one show and you see someone you recognize from somewhere else but just can work out ... http://www.locatetvblog.com/well-connected-in-tv/ So you've put together your list of favorite TV shows, movies and actors on MyPicks and use it to keep up-to-date with when and where they will be next on for you. Why not let others benefit from your choices? At the bottom of your list you will find a ... http://www.locatetvblog.com/share-your-favorites-with-mypicks/ Have you noticed some new icons appearing when you search on LocateTV? These three icons will tell you if the show, movie or person you are looking for is on TV, on DVD and/or online. If you hover over the icons you'll see a bit more info too, which can ... http://www.locatetvblog.com/not-on-tv-dont-forget-dvd-and-online/ From romance in Paris and money in Vegas, to lust in London and sleeping in Seattle. LocateTV would like to take you on a tour of shows set around the world. Why? Well, when else would you be able to eat Breakfast at Tiffany’s in New York and be in ... http://www.locatetvblog.com/around-the-world-in-80-shows/ There's nothing like Valentine's to bring out the romantics in (most of) us. Are you one of those people who swoons over love films and would like nothing more than a bunch of roses and a massive box of choccys to arrive at the door this Thursday? Then make LocateTV ... http://www.locatetvblog.com/love-is-in-the-air-or-not/ It is great to hear that people are using the MyPicks feature on LocateTV to keep up to date with when their favorite shows and actors are available to watch. Already we have been asked if the limit of items that can be added to a MyPicks list can be ... http://www.locatetvblog.com/more-power-to-mypicks/ According to Tiscali's TV Trends Report 2007 published today: Strong stuff; but in many ways good news for LocateTV. The report, independent although commissioned by UK broadband and media provider Tiscali, claims that in a competitive and fast-moving entertainment market, 'choice is key and will have a significant impact on who ... http://www.locatetvblog.com/traditional-tv-schedules-are-dead-apparently/ Just when you thought January was all dullness, diets and bad weather, along comes Lottie to brighten up your week. Yes, it's LocateTV's second video blog, and in this episode Lottie demonstrates how to use the new MyPicks feature, which allows you to bookmark your top TV shows, movies and actors ... http://www.locatetvblog.com/customise-your-tv-listings/ Happy New Year from everyone at the LocateTV blog... we hope you've had a fantastic Christmas and that LocateTV really helped you wade through all the rubbish in those crammed TV schedules to find what and who you really wanted to watch. You may have noticed that, despite all the alcohol ... http://www.locatetvblog.com/new-year-new-design/ Ever wished that you could just have a list of when all your favourite TV shows and movies are next on, just at the touch of a button? The day that LocateTV fans have been waiting for is here: the My Picks function has launched. One of our most common pieces ... http://www.locatetvblog.com/pick-and-mix/ Christmas and TV go together like turkey and stuffing. When you're tired of squabbling families and over-full of food, watching festive movies can be the one way to restore a little peace and good will among men. However, Christmas schedules can be a nightmare; the massive TV guide is falling ... http://www.locatetvblog.com/get-in-the-festive-mood/ Just imagine: you own an Orlando Bloom fan site. You search for Mr Bloom on LocateTV, intending to embed one of our lovely widgets on your home page sidebar so that all your readers can instantly see which of his movies is next on TV, every time they visit your ... http://www.locatetvblog.com/check-your-region/ With the newly released The Golden Compass getting mixed reviews - is it a spine-tingling spectacular or a politics-and-religion-shy disappointment compared to Philip Pullman's books? - we'd like to ask you a provocative question. Are today's fantasy movies too CGI-slick? Was the rough-around-the-edges style of something like Jim Henson's Labyrinth ... http://www.locatetvblog.com/the-golden-compass-or-labyrinth/ We've received lots of feedback from people such as Mori at the After Ellen blog who have been introduced to LocateTV, love the concept, but would like to see coverage in regions other than the US and UK. One of the most common requests is for Canadian coverage, so as ... http://www.locatetvblog.com/canada-wants-locatetv/ A woman, looking tired and cold, talking about LocateTV in a field: magic. There's so much going on with the site we thought you needed a snappy summary of our development updates, so I've decided to record a short weekly video blog. This week I focus on the Retro TV Classics ... http://www.locatetvblog.com/lotties-video-blog/ When life seems a little hard to bear (as is so often the case in late November), there's much comfort to be had from regressing to the past and indulging in a little nostalgia.Thus LocateTV introduce this week's theme page: Retro TV Classics. Each of our theme pages acts as an ... http://www.locatetvblog.com/get-your-retro-tv-fix-here/ It's that time of the week when we update you on the improvements made to LocateTV - some obvious and cosmetic, some behind-the-scenes tweaks which make it run more smoothly. First up, we have the improved embedding pages. As always, you can search for any TV series, episode, film, actor or ... http://www.locatetvblog.com/embedding-just-got-easier/ With Thanksgiving tomorrow, households across America will be merrily bustling with preparations for the big day: turkey to be roasted, cornbread to be baked, families to be endured - sorry, enjoyed. TV is a big part of the celebrations for most people, with dinner being digested throughout a long afternoon of ... http://www.locatetvblog.com/locatetv-presents-the-thanksgiving-special-tv-treats-and-turkeys/ After a certain article was posted on the ever-popular directory of wonderful things that is Boing Boing, buzz about LocateTV has exploded across the blogosphere. Here are a few examples of what people are saying… ResearchBuzz marvels at the depth of the search results, whilst Media Morgue cites LocateTV as one ... http://www.locatetvblog.com/locatetv-and-the-cainehackman-theory/ "Where do I find all my Jessica Simpson facts and photos?" we hear you cry plaintively. Well now Locate TV can provide you with your answer. Just head over to SweetKisses , where the lovely Joanna has compiled everything you could possibly need to know about the blonde bombshell. ... http://www.locatetvblog.com/jessica-lovers-love-us/ The site that Technorati calls 'the most popular blog in the world', esteemed technology, gadget and entertainment hub Boing Boing, has posted about LocateTV under the catchy title TV search engine tells you when that show is on next. Basically quoting our very own blogging correspondent from the front line of ... http://www.locatetvblog.com/weve-been-boing-boinged/ As the change log attests, the functionality and cosmetics of LocateTV site are being developed and refined all the time, often thanks to the feedback you've been giving us throughout the beta process. The site looks really quite different now from when we first moved into public beta. The colours are ... http://www.locatetvblog.com/design-developments/ Although LocateTV helps the old-fashioned TV watcher who just wants to navigate their telly channels of an evening,  it is also ideally placed to fit in with the transformed viweing habits of a whole new generation. First we hear from Adweek of a new survey calculating that 16% of consumers now ... http://www.locatetvblog.com/internet-tv-same-content-different-box/