Ice TV Vs Channel Nine Goes All The Way To The High Court In another throw of the dice Ice TV has been granted special leave to appeal to the High Court of Australia following the recent decision by the NSW appeal court that ruled that IceTV was permanently restrained from reproducing in a material form Nine Program Time and Title Information, to the extent that such information reproduces the whole or a substantial part of the Nine Weekly Program Schedule.
Is Foxtel TV On A Sony PSP And PS3 Coming Soon? A few months ago I was asked by a very senior executive at Foxtel as to what I thought about Foxtel content appearing on Sony devices like the PSP or the Playstations 2 and 3. At the time I thought the question was odd. Now it emerges that Sony management has been talking to Foxtel about their new online portal that is set to launch later this year or early in 2009.
SBS To Launch 9 Digital Radio Channels & Online Streaming SBS says it intends to add nine new digital radio channels with “distinctive, credible and culturally relevant Australian perspectives on local and international issues as part of its plans for the future”.
iView Free ABC HD Online After weeks of beta testing, the ABC has moved deeper into online operations with the launch of iView, a free streaming video service which provides full-screen, high-resolution content from popular shows, news and documentaries, delivered via the Internet.
IceTV Frozen Out Of Channel 9 EPG UPDATED:After the Federal Court of Australia issued its findings on the IceTV vs. Channel 9 Electronic Program Guide (EPG) court case- and its not good news for the free-to-air EPG TV provider.
IceTV Rolls Out TV Personalisation Software IceTV has announced a signi?cant update to one of its key software applications, the IceTV Widget. Version 2.1 adds personalised TV recommendations, bug ?xes and large speed improvements.
Foxtel Goes Live With New HD Service Foxtel is set to go head to head with TIVO with the pay TV operator formally announcing that their HD+ service will go live on Sunday, June 22 and that more than 15,000 subscribers have already upgraded to their new service.
Seven Media Angry With Unwired Over TiVo Leak Seven Media executives are angry with the CEO of parent Company Unwired after he leaked information on the pending roll out of the new TiVo content service. With an announcement due this week Seven Networks executives are furious that Unwired "stole their thunder".
BigPond Helps Net TV Become The Norm According to a recently released Cisco study, Australian and New Zealand broadband users are spending considerably more time using the Internet than watching television or movies and are downloading video in significant numbers.
Commercial TV Stagnates As Digital Rivals Bloom Although from 1980 to 2000, commercial television revenues grew by 3.8 per cent, since 2000, alternatives to television, including the Internet, Pay TV, DVDs and games, have gained in popularity, attracting both new audiences and advertisers, according to ACMA.
IPTV In The Dark Ages Says ACMA According to a report by the Australian Communications and Media Authority (ACMA), the Australian market for internet protocol television (IPTV) and internet video is less developed than many other international markets, with fewer than five IPTV providers and fifteen internet video providers offering full-length professional content directly to consumers.
Smart TV Guide Knows Your Favourite Shows The subscription based electronic free-to-air TV program guide (EPG) IceTV now has a new feature which offers TV show recommendations to viewers, based on their viewing and recording habits.
Who Really Controls Online Gambling? You wonder sometimes why we bother at all to turn up to polling stations on election day, as it seems the politicians in this country respond more to corporate influence than the power of the ballot.
Pay TV Betting Service Gambles On Convenience In a country where betting is a national obsession and gambling has become one of our top social issues, a local digital media company has launched an interactive betting service allowing punters to bet from the comfort of their living rooms and via their pay TV consoles.
Blockbuster Set To Role Out Movie Set Top Box Unforunatly when it comes movie and music distribution Australia over the internet Australia is seen as being at the arse end of the world and a nation that grew monsters like Kazaa a web site that facilitated the illegal distribution of content. Another big problem is slow broadband speeds.
Apple Tops The Pops In US But Tight-Lipped In Australia Apple has announced that their iTunes store has surpassed retailer Wal-Mart to become the number one music retailer in the US, based on the latest data from the NPD Group.
Pay TV Gives Local Drama a Leg Up According to the latest figures, the subscription television industry recorded a 43 per cent increase in expenditure on Australian drama programs in 2006-07, with expenditure increasing from $18.41 million in 2005-06 to $26.44 million in 2006-07.
ABC Roll Out IPTV Service That Will Suck Bandwidth The ABC has announced four new Internet-based services that will deliver content to a PC or directly to a media player. ABC Playback, is a full-screen media player that will offer three channels of TV content delivered via the Internet. The new Internet service could end up with users chewing up vast amounts of broadband bandwidth as they stream content says a senior Telstra executive.
EXCLUSIVE: Telstra On Gateways, Blu-ray, Quality Content And Bandwidth EXCLUSIVE: A senior Telstra executive has backed the Internet and storage kiosks for HD content as opposed to consumers buying Blu-ray discs and players. However he stresses that consumers still want high definition (HD) and “Blu-ray quality” from their content and this he says they will get from the new Foxtel HD set top box. He has also hinted that a new home gateway that Telstra plans to launch soon may double as a set top box to deliver IP and Foxtel content.
Seven Cuts Deal With Foxtel After months of lobbying the Seven Network to join its pay TV service, Foxtel will finally be able to offer its subscribers access to channel Seven after the two companies announced a partnership today that will see Foxtel retransmit Seven programs – which is unusual since Seven has been preparing to launch its TiVo digital video recorder for some time.
ABC Digital Renames Channels Customers with set-top boxes who use IceTV’s Electronic Program Guide (EPG) to view TV program listings should be advised that from today, the ABC network will be named either ‘ABC1’ or ABC2’, depending on the region.
IceTV Cuts Sony Deal For Notebook Bundles Sony and IceTV have teamed up in a marketing deal which will see IceTV give away a free three-month subscription to its Electronic Program Guide (EPG) to every customer who purchases a compatible Vaio notebook computer.
Apple To Move Into Movie Rental Business Australians could soon get a brand new DVD rental service thanks to Apple and a News Ltd owned Company. The move will see Apple go head to head with Bigpond Movies, Video Ezy and Quickflix.
UK Teaches Local TV Stations A Lesson About The Future As Seven, Nine & Ten engage in one upmanship in Australia over the future of TV services and HD, the UK's leading broadcasters - ITV, BBC Worldwide and Channel 4 - have announced they will launch 'Kangaroo', a joint online service to deliver more than 10,000 hours of TV programming online.
Free Electronic TV Guides On-air Now TV stations Nine and Ten will begin delivering free Electronic Program Guide (EPG) information from today, which will work with compatible TV and digital receiver products.
Foxtel & Nine Score Olympic Game Rights The Nine Network and Foxtel have have scored the exclusive broadcast rights for the 2010 Vancouver Winter Olympics and the 2012 London Summer Olympics covering both TV, mobile and Internet rights.
Nine Lose IceTV Case In a landmark ruling against PBL, Justice Annabelle Bennett of the Federal Court of Australia has ruled in favour of IceTV in its dispute with Channel Nine.
Watch BigPond TV On Your Mobile BigPond has unveiled a great line-up of shows for mobile phones with the launch of BigPond TV on Telstra's Next G network. With this new feature, users can now watch their favourite shows when and where they want to.
Free TV & Movie Service To Take On Foxtel EXCLUSIVE: A Canadian company, MyTvPal.com is evaluating the Australian market with a view to launching a brand new content service that will allow Australians to access over 1,000 channels of content for free. They will also have access to 1080p movies and 1080p IMAX documentaries.
High Quality TV Over The Internet Skype will deliver for Australians what Microsoft and others have failed to deliver with the launch by the founders of the Skype internet telephony service of the world's first broadcast quality internet TV service which Australians will ne able to access and download.
Apple Launches Apple TV Apple has unveiled the highly anticipated Apple TV at Macworld in San Francisco.
Microsoft Snubs Australians Again At CES 07 Microsoft has rolled out stacks of new goodies at the CES show in Las Vegas but guess what most of them will not be available in Australia.
Seven Network Show Deliberately Lied To Viewers About Telstra The Seven Network News department has been caught out lying when the Network's so called flagship current affair program deliberatly misled views when it put to air incorrect facts about Telstra.
Test Match Cricket Live Online Live cricket is available online but the big difference is that Cricket Australia is delivering the service not the Nine Network who have the rights to the free to air TV transmission.
Cisco Set To Take On Apple Sony And Microsoft EXCLUSIVE: The world’s most successful network Company Cisco is set to take on the giants of the CE market by entering the highly competitive digital home market with a home gateway which at this stage is called “"The Cable Bypass Box".
Channel Nine And PBL Embarrassed NineMSN and their parent company PBL have found themselves in an embarrassing situation after it was revealed that the Company is openly promoting the use of an EPG while taking legal action against EPG content provider Ice TV.
IceTV Cuts Out The Ads IceTV offers Australia’s only commercial electronic programme guide (EPG) for $3 a week, which essentially gives you one touch programme recording minus the ads.
D Day For Ice TV Vs Nine Today in the Federal Court David takes on Goliath when small EPG (Electronic Program Guide) Company Ice TV defends itself in an action in which Channel Nine are attempting to put Ice TV out of business for providing an EPG service.
Internet Will Kill TV IPTV entrants as well as Internet video services will give free-to-air and pay-TV operators a run for their money, warns IDC.
Channel Nine Iced When Channel Nine's Eddie McGyuire decided to take on Ice TV he knew exactly what he was doing. He was trying to destroy the fledgling electronic program guide business by commencing legal action to prevent Ice TV from producing an EPG Guide for Australian consumers. But the move has backfired.
Was Kewell Right To Roast The Ref? Was Harry Kewell right to roast the ref in the Australia Brazil game? And are FIFA deliberately not using technology because it may reveal lousy referring decisions.
Stream Your TV and Music For Free Hauppauge Digital has announced its own "place-shifting" product which allows users to access media content from their home PC, including TV, from any internet connection.
Murdoch Using Spys & Scientists To Be King Rupert Murdoch is using a team of former code-breakers, scientists, and even a few ex-spy chasers in an effort to become the most powerful TV player in the world.
Nine Pips Seven Nine has beaten the Yahoo Channel 7 consortium by being the first free to air TV station to deliver content via an IPTV offering.
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