Orange brings mickey mouse to mobile tv

Orange has made a digital TV content deal with Disney-ABC International Television, which will allow Orange subscribers to watch Disney movies on Orange’s forthcoming digital TV service ipTV.

Under the multi-year video on-demand deal for digital TV and PC, Orange will be able to offer for rental video on demand movies from Walt Disney Pictures, Touchstone Pictures and Miramax Films, such as Déjà Vu, Wild Hogs, and Venus.

Tim Pearson, director of ipTV Orange, said: ‘The Disney-ABC International Television deal is the first of a number of content deals we’re announcing and demonstrates we’re gearing up for our launch of digital TV later this year. We intend to offer our customers a great range of the best movies on demand for which this agreement with Disney is a great step.’

Phone mast allergy ‘in our minds’

Mobile phone masts are not responsible for the symptoms of ill health some blame them for, a major UK study says.  

Dozens of people who believed the masts triggered symptoms such as anxiety, nausea and tiredness could not detect if signals were on or off in trials.

However, the Environmental Health Perspectives study stressed people were nonetheless suffering “real symptoms”.

Campaign group Mast Sanity said the results were skewed as 12 people in the trials dropped out because of illness.

In the trial, many of those who blame masts for their symptoms reported greater distress when they thought the signal was on, suggesting the problem has a psychological basis.

“Belief is a very powerful thing,” said Professor Elaine Fox, of the University of Essex, who led the three-year study.

“If you really believe something is going to do you some harm, it will.”

The study was funded by the Mobile Telecommunications and Health Research programme, a body which is itself funded by industry and government.