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Throughout March it is National Bed Month organised by The Sleep Council, which aims to remind us all of why a sound sleep is good for our health.  We have a variety of bedside radio and alarms clocks to ease you gently out of bed after a good night’s kip!

Pure Twilight (SRP £139.99)  fully featured bedside digital radio could be the answer to those who struggle to get out from under the covers in the morning. It combines an energy efficient lamp featuring flexible lighting options with a digital and FM radio alarm clock to deliver the ultimate bedside experience.  If you want to wake up differently you can set up to four alarms with an optional dawn simulation, or wake up to relaxing sounds from our Pure Sounds collection.

Siesta Mi Series 2

Siesta Mi Series 2 has two independent alarms which can be set to digital radio, FM or a tone. It also has sleep and snooze timers that can be switched on or off at the touch of a button. Its large clear display is easy to read at night and its brightness automatically adjusts to suit the light-levels of the room.

Sensia 200D Connect

All of our radio sytems have at least two alarm settings and the Sensia 200D Connect  (SRP £249.99) comes with a countdown and sleep timer too. So lie back, relax, and have much more than forty winks this National Bed Month!

For our full range of bedside radios, please see here.

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Avalon 300R Connect is a high-performance, easy-to-use Freeview+ HD digital TV recorder with a unique, state-of-the-art user interface, the most advanced versions of BBC iPlayer and YouTube and full integration with Pure Connect for all the music you’ll ever want. But did you know it also has built in Wi-Fi??

Watch on-demand
Avalon 300R Connect has a useful built-in Wi-Fi and Ethernet network connection for access to on-demand services. This allows you to watch on demand programmes from BBC iPlayer in standard and high quality, log in to access your saved favourites and browse YouTube. There will be more on-demand services added soon via a free software update.

Listen to On-demand audio
Connecting Avalon to your network lets you access Pure Connect – our portal to a world of listening including thousands of on-demand podcasts and listen again content and around 20,000 internet radio stations all for free. You can also connect to Pure Music – our on-demand subscription service for just £4.99 a month.

Fore hi-res images or samples, please email sarah.riley@pure.com

For more information on Avalon, please see here

Avalon 300R Connect  uses our parent company Imagination Technologies’ market leading Power VR graphics to deliver the most engaging and attractive subscription free TV viewing experience available. The user interface on Avalon offers real depth and perspective making the menus and channel guides a joy to interact with.But did you know you can change the animation effects of the page transitions?

Page peel effect

Avalon is the only set top box on the market which allows you to choose from a range of page transitions when changing channels. You can select  effects such as page peel, water ripple, dissolve or random to personalise your set top box.

To select your preferred animation, select “Animation effect” from the “Channels” menu. You can then select the animation effect that is used for screen transitions when you next change channels.
The list of effects include: Page peel – (default) Screen peels from top right hand corner
Swing Open – Screen swings to the right, Fall Away – Screen flips over and falls into the distance, Zoom Dissolve – Screen zooms in then dissolves to black, Circular Wipe – Screen dissolves from centre outwards, Dissolve – Screen dissolves, Vertical Wipe – Screen wipes down from top, Ripple – Screen dissolves in a ripple from centre outwards
Random – one of the above effects randomly used

For more information on Avalon, please see here

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Pure has ventured into the world of set top boxes with our new Avalon 300R Connect. Avalon is a high performance, easy to use Freeview+ HD digital recorder and features Imagination Technologies’ clever Power VR graphics. But did you know you can also access our Pure Connect portal using Avalon?

Listen to on-demand content and internet stations from around the world
Connecting Avalon to your network lets you access Pure Connect – our gateway to a world of listening including thousands of on-demand podcasts and listen again content and around 20,000 internet radio stations all for free. You can also connect to Pure Music – our on-demand subscription service. Pure Connect gives you the opportunity to catch up with the Archers omnibus or listen again to topical news shows like NewsJack. You can also listen to Pure Sounds to add relaxing and natural sounds to the room.

Pure Music
Avalon 300R Connect brings music to your set top box! You can subscribe to Pure Music for just £4.99 a month. Here you can stream millions of music tracks from one of the biggest cloud-based catalogues covering almost every conceivable artist and genre. Pure Music suggests recommended albums and artists that you may like as well as the latest top releases.

For more information on Avalon, please see read our press release

For hi-res images, samples or Pure Music subscriptions please email sarah.riley@pure.com

Smooth Radio are asking listeners to take part in their annual charity event, ’Starlight Supper’, that aims to raise money for Macmillan Cancer Support. Listeners are encouraged to host (or attend) a dinner party and listen to Smooth Radio from 8pm on Saturday 9th March for the perfect soundtrack for the UK’s biggest dinner party!

To register simply visit www.smoothradio.co.uk/starlight and Smooth Radio will send you a Starlight Supper pack that includes everything you need for your dinner party – balloons, confetti, place and menu cards, and recipes from some of the UK’s best-loved chefs, including Mary Berry, Brian Turner and The Fabulous Baker Brothers. You can find more details and frequently asked questions on the Startlight Supper web page including dinner party tips, competitions, helpful hints from the celebrity chef of the week and ideas on how to raise more money from your guests!

 On the night Smooth Radio will be playing four hours of non-stop soulful hits from 8pm so you can entertain your guests with great music then once you have finished your food join in for the Smooth Pop Quiz at 10pm. You can also listen to Smooth whilst you’re preparing your feast and send in pictures from your night during the show. We are also donating a Pure Evoke Mio on the night so listen out for that competition for your chance to win!

Smooth Radio has been hosting the Starlight Supper since 2010 and so far the event has raised over 500K for Macmillan. There have been over 7,000 Starlight Supper dinner parties to date – that’s 42,000 people so far and counting. Every penny raised goes towards helping Macmillan provide practical, medical and emotional and financial support to people affected by cancer. You can read more about the work of Macmillan Cancer Support on their website. If you’re unable to host a Starlight Supper, the easiest way to donate is online via Smooth Radio’s JustGiving page.

Don’t forget that you can listen to Smooth Radio on Pure Connect, our online gateway to internet radio stations, listen again content, on-demand programmes as well as millions of tracks from Pure Music, our cloud-based, on-demand music service.

The Jacksons supporting Starlight Supper

Celebrity chef Nadia

Our new Set-top box has a wealth of features to offer from our innovative use of Picture in Picture technology, to the dual tuners which allow you to record two channels simultaneously.

But did you know Avalon is the only set top box to come with four HDMI inputs?!

The four inputs allow you to simplify your A/V wiring and plug in other devices. These devices can be easily accessed via the main menu and you can personalise them by renaming each device to suit. So you can do anything from playing on your game consoles, connecting to your PC, connect your video recorder or Blu-ray player and even watch Apple Tv!

 
For more information on Avalon 300R Connect, see here
For samples or hi-res images, please contact sarah.riley@pure.com

If you like to catch up on missed Tv programmes , Avalon 300R Connect has leading edge HTML 5 based versions of BBC iPlayer and YouTube, perfect for fast and easy viewing. But did you know can also pair your phone or tablet with Avalon when using YouTube?!

 All you have to do is click on search then follow the  instructions on the screen to pair your device. You can then view YouTube clips at your leisure by using your paired device as a control.When searching YouTube, the predictive options allow you to find easily find what you’re looking for while the real-time response encourages you to explore.

There are more on-demand stations in the pipeline for Avalon, watch this space!

For more information on Avalon 300R Connect, please click here.

For hi-res images or samples, please contact sarah.riley@pure.com

One Classic Series 2 (SRP £64.99) is a portable digital and FM radio with a host of features. From a handy kitchen timer to an aux input for your iPod/MP3 player, there is something for everyone. Its sleek design is available in a choice of two colours (black and white) and you can insert a Charge PAK for portable listening where ever you go. But did you know it also features a Listen Later function?!

Listen Later enables you to save your favourite digital radio programme and play it back later. Perfect for people who love their radio shows such as the Archers and Woman’s Hour on BBC Radio 4 as well as your favourite radio plays. The radio programme is stored in memory while the radio is switched on or in standby, until it is eventually overwritten by another. The memory will hold up to about 45 minutes* worth of a typical broadcast and will stop once the memory is full.

Other features include a USB connector for software upgrades.

* Listen Later timings for DAB stations   
64 kbit/s = 90 mins
80 kbit/s = 75 mins
96 kbit/s = 60 mins
112 kbit/s = 50 mins
128 kbit/s = 45 mins
160 kbit/s = 35 mins
192 kbit/s = 30 mins

For more information or hi-res images, please contact sarah.riley@pure.com

Sean Hannam (ERT), Kate Solomon (TechRadar) and Kat Jackman (Emerging Icons)

Most 16-24 year olds are listening to music on their laptop or mobile phone, which doesn’t deliver an optimum audio experience. Do they know? Do they care? This was just one of the statistics discussed at Universal Music’s sound open day (#soundmatters) last night at the legendary Abbey Road studios.

The atmosphere in studio 2, probably the most famous studio in the world with the likes of Pink Floyd, The Shadows and not forgetting the Beatles recording there, was an apt setting for the discussion about how every artist will go to extraordinary lengths to ensure their music sounds exactly as they intended, but for many fans listening to the end result, some of the audio experience is lost in the rush for convenience.

The event was hosted by music journalist Miranda Sawyer and speakers on the panel included Jonathan Allen (engineer/producer, Abbey Road Studios), Ben Hillier (producer, songwriter and studio owner), JJ (evangelist, Dolby) and Mike Smith, president of music, Mercury Records. Our very own Pete Downton (director of cloud services for Imagination Technologies) started off the proceedings by presenting Universal’s research on how fans like to listen to music, which led to discussions around whether sound quality and the listening experience have been sacrificed in the age of the MP3.

Pete Downton presents the research by Universal

Mike Smith presents The Strypes

The Strypes

After discussions about the research the audience had their questions answered by the panel – including Sean Hannam, our guest from ERT, who asked “where are people going to experience high quality audio as part of the retail experience?”

Mike Smith then presented one of the most promising bands around, The Strypes – a four-piece rhythm and blues band who certainly know about sound!

Not only did we get to listen to the delights of The Strypes we then took our guests to see Jake Bugg at the Shepherd’s Bush Empire. You can stream Jake Bugg on Pure Connect now and view pictures from the gig below:

Jake Bugg performs

Watching Jake Bugg – Jeff Parsons (T3), Chloe (Pure), Paul Lamkin (MSN), Kate Solomon (Tech Radar), Verity Perry (What HiFi?)

Jake Bugg

To celebrate the launch of our latest Evoke Mio by Orla Kiely the Pure PR team held a press launch last night and invited journalists from interiors and lifestyle press. The event was a great success and attended by 23 publications!

The launch took place at the Orla Kiely flagship store in Covent Garden, London. Guests who came along were able to check out the new Striped Petal buttercup edition DAB and FM radio, browse the retro styled store and enjoy canapes and drinks.

Designer Orla Kiely, known for her iconic prints, has blended colour and pattern with quality and playful design, to create a vibrant lifestyle brand including a successful line of womenswear, fashion accessories and homeware on show in the store. The radios looked great in the setting of the store and as you can see the Striped Petal design, in Buttercup, sits nicely alongside the Stem and Abacus Evoke Mio editions.

Pure Evoke Mio by Orla Kiely - Striped Petal Edition is now available exclusively at John Lewis and from Orla Kiely online and instore.

For hi-res images or samples, please contact sarah.riley@pure.com

Read the full press release on our website.