Foxtel Set Top Box Maker On A High Pace, which makes the Foxtel set-top box, including its HD offering, is set to announce that it has become the world's second-largest maker of pay TV set-top boxes, behind Motorola of the US.
Strong DVR Now With IceTV Strong Technologies has announced that IceTV’s Interactive EPG service will now be available for two of its DVRs.
128X 4 Channel Record PVR Set To Hurt Freeview Set-top box manufacturer Topfield and IceTV, which won a major court case in the High Court against free-to-air TV station Channel Nine last year, are set offer an alternative to Freeview.
New HD Set Top Box From Sanyo Sanyo has released a new HD set top box that provides access to digital and HD channels without the need to buy a new TV.
Record Restrictions For Sony PS3, Play TV Device Consumers who purchase the new Sony Play TV personal video recorder, which is designed for use with a Sony Playstation 3 console, will only be able to record one TV channel if they are watching TV at the same time.
Free TiVo Movies Deal Has Privacy Issues Seven Media who own 66% of TiVo via a shareholding in Hybrid TV Services, is set to give consumers the choice of getting a free movie if they agree to accept advertising however there are conditions.
New 320GB TiVo Takes On 500GB Foxtel As the personal video recorder market heats up TiVo has doubled the size of their hard drive 320GB. In comparison both Topfield and Foxtel have 500GB hard drives. They have also announced access to new HD channels including 7TWO, Go!, One Sport and the pending ABC Kids channel, ABC3. Missing is access to HD channels from Channel Nine.
Sony Wades Into Set Top Box Battle With New Play TV Sony is banking on selling up to 150,000 of their new Play TV set top boxes between now and the New Year, in a move that will see them go head to head with TiVo and several personal video recorder manufacturers. The device will also compete with the recently launched Slingbox.
Free Telstra PVR Set To Change Content Landscape A new Telstra T-Box PVR, that has 200GB of internal storage, a 7 day electronic program guide that allows Full HD content to be recorded and the ability to attach a 1TB drive, is set to cause havoc in the PVR market with Telstra tipped to give the device away for free, to consumers who buy their content and have a BigPond premium broadband contract.
Cisco Cuts Set Top Box Deal Cisco, the company Telstra chose to bypass for the delivery of a new set top box for the home, has aquired China’s DVN set top box business for $44.5 million.
PVR Vendor Gives Freeview Two Finger Salute DViCO Australia who last week got into strife after claiming that their new digital personal video recorder was Freeview endorsed has given Freeview Australia the two finger salute.
Secret TiVo Discussions With IceTV Exposed EXCLUSIVE: Evidence presented in a NSW Wales Supreme Court hearing has revealed that TiVo was talking to IceTV about the launch of their product in Australia prior to the Seven Network launching the personal video recorder and that the Seven Network may have got insider information that helped them with their launch.
DViCO Responds To Freeview Threat EXCLUSIVE: A spokesperson for Taiwanese Company DViCO, claims that the company was unaware it needed to obtain Freeview certification in Australia despite the fact that the chipsets between Freeview Europe and Australia are different.
Freeview Accuses PVR Maker Of Lying Dvico and distributor Also Technology who yesterday launched a personal video recorder, which they claimed was Freeview certified has been accused of lying to the media by Freeview.
New Dvico PVR Takes On Tivo Dvico is set to take on Tivo with the launch of its $699 PVR that claims to record two shows at once, stream audio, video, and photos from any connected computer, provide access to Youtube, Picasa, Weather, and Internet, as well as read files stored on USB or memory cards.
Local TV That Follows You Taking Off Australians, who are known for their travels, are starting to take to the Slingbox, a device that lets consumers tap into local TV when they are away overseas or interstate claims Digital Products Australia boss Jai Kemp.
New Netgear Box Steams Online Content Netgear has released a set-top box that allows a user to play files stored on USB devices, computers, and networked storage devices, as well as stream YouTube videos and IPTV on any HD TV.
New LG Media Centre Confirmed As reported by Smarthouse, LG is entering the media centre market with the launch of its 500GB twin HD digital video recorder with integrated Wi-Fi. This DLNA-enabled player features Full HD playback, supports 1080p upscaling, can access YouTube and Picasa content.
EXCLUSIVE: Telstra To Launch HD PVR Service EXCLUSIVE: Telstra is set to enter the fast growing set top box market with a brand new HD content service delivered via a French made NetGem, Netbox PVR box that is currently under development for the Australian market.
30 New Foxtel Channels No News On Problem PVR's Foxtel, who are set to come under pressure from several new IP content companies, has said that they will launch 30 new channels if the launch of a new Optus satelitte is succesful this weekend. Among the new channels will be10 high-definition channels.
IceTV Ready To Go For New Channel IceTV has updated its channel information in preparation for Nine’s new digital channel called Go! which will be launching this Sunday.
Demand For Set Top Boxes Booming Demand for set top boxes in Australia is booming with Topfield, TiVo and Beyonwiz all reporting big increases in sales.
New Freeview Coming In April 2010 EXCLUSIVE: A new Freeview service will be launched in Australia on 5th April 2010 following the cutting of a deal between Freeview and Macrovision the owners of over 100 patents in Australia relating to the delivery of content information via an electronic program guide.
Telstra Content Management Set To Hurt TiVo Telstra is closer to becoming a major threat to TiVo with the carrier tipped to launch a content management and broadband gateway box later this year.
Ad Skipping Bit Torrent Download Player Launched An ad skipping multimedia player that also includes a capability to easily download bit torrent movies and music content has been launched in Australia.
Slingbox to Help DPG In PVR Battle A market share battle is set to break out in the set top box and digital recorder market with the Digital Products Group, who were an early pioneer of the category with their Topfield offering, now tipping $30 million dollars in revenue in 2010 with four key brands that include Beyonwiz, Slingbox, Homecast, and Digital Plus.
Topfield & Tivo Brand Killers In PVR Market Topfield who entered the Australian market after a falling out with the Digital Products Group is now the #1 set top box and personal video recorder brand in Australia just behind Tivo according to the latest GFK data for April 2009.
IceTV Working On Sub $300 EPG Set Top Box IceTV will later this year launch a set top box for ISP’s and business to business organisations looking to deliver content with their IceTV electronic program guide which Channel Nine tried to get banned in Australia.
$6M DVD Ripping Argument To Be Made This Week A brand new low cost set top box that rips DVD’s on the fly is currently under development by Real Networks, a small US company who will next week give their closing argument in a David and Goliath battle, with Hollywood movie studio’s who want the box and RealDVD a $29.99 piece of DVD ripping software stopped from going on sale.
$29 DVD Ripping Software Evil Judge Told The battle over a consumer’s right to copy a DVD movie to a storage device has taken another turn after the CEO of Real Networks revealed a set top box code-named "Facet," that ripped and stored up to 75 movies, during a US court case. The case has been brought on by Hollywood movie studio’s trying to stop the ripping of movies using a $US29 piece of software.
Big Brands Missing At Freeview Launch Sony was there, so was LG and Dick Smith management. Missing at the official consumer launch of Freeview in Australia were big name brands including Samsung, Panasonic, Sharp and Toshiba.
Retailers To Snub Freeview Launch COMMENT: The marketing and sales staff over at Freeview along with their PR company have got to be the biggest dopes on the block after they chose a Dick Smith store to launch Freeview in Australia.
TiVo Boss Admits To Using Swear Word To Describe Foxtel Tension between the pay TV industry and free to air TV was evident today at the Federal Government “Ready for digital TV conference” in Sydney with the head of TiVo after swearing on stage and then apologised claiming that at Channel Seven the “Fxxxed” word was often used when referring to Foxtel.
Cisco To Take On TiVo Cisco is looking at taking on TiVo with the release of a personal video recorder that will deliver wireless video content to a home network. They are also working with content providers to deliver not only the management system for the content but a vast amount of video and audio content across a global IP content network.
TiVo Under Fire After Claims Of Misleading Its Customers Internet forums like Whirlpool, DTVforum and the official TiVo site are buzzing today with the sound of angry users after the highly anticipated networking service was finally offered to customers at 4pm yesterday. The cause of their unrest is from fact that the “tens of dollars” that they were originally told the service would cost has now risen to $199 for the required software plus $39.99 for each additional PC in the home.
Consumers Turning To DVR That Cut Out Commercials Say Nielsen A new Nielsen report claims that more consumers than ever before are investing in digital video recorders that allow them to record free to air TV and then remove the TV commercials. They also claim that since the economic recession hit more people are staying home and watching TV.
TV Tuner Box Streams Content To PCs HDHomeRun is a network digital TV tuner box that receives free-to-air digital TV and streams it to desktop and laptop PC via a local network for viewing and recording.
Tivo Sales Struggle As PVR Penetration Reaches 15% Tivo, the digital video recorder launched by Seven Media, is struggling with insiders admitting that the Company will miss their December target of 25,000 units. However, Harvey Norman claim that it is an important product that is helping drive the PVR category.
Adobe Flash Platform For Digital TVs Adobe has integrated its Flash Platform into Broadcom’s latest digital television (DTV) and set-top box (STB) system-on-a-chip (SoC) platforms.
Telstra Set To Hurt TV Stations With New Gateway In a move that is set to alienate the free-to-air TV industry, Telstra is set to launch a gateway box that will record content and instantly cut out TV commercials. The device will also allow access to Foxtel if a consumer has purchased a pay TV subscription.
WizTV Goes Live For Beyonwiz PVRs As tipped by ChannelNews last week, WizTV goes live today, enabling owners of the Beyonwiz range of HD PVRs and STBs to get ABC news and weather reports.
ABC News & Live Weather Now On PVR ABC News and weather information from the Australian Bureau of Meteorology will next week be streamed to Beyonwiz personal video recorders according to Digital Products Group the distributor of the popular PVR .
TiVo Gets New Identity And Advertising Between Commercials Tivo is no longer a personal video recorder; it’s a media management device that is currently selling at about 4,000 units a month according to Robbee Minicola the CEO of the Seven Media owned Hybrid Television Services.
$1,352 TiVo Service Coming to A Store Near You Tivo, who tomorrow will hold a major press conference in an effort to re launch the struggling Tivo personal video recorder, are sent to charge $37.58 a month to rent the Seven Media device in a move that a senior Foxtel executive has described as being "just another form of subscription".
Record Foxtel Two Weeks In Advance Foxtel has expanded its Online Guide to 14 days, which means subscribers can now record programmes two weeks in advance.
TiVo Turns To Pizza To Fuel Growth Senior management of the Seven Media owned TiVo claim that they do not want their devce known as a personel video recorder (PVR), instead they want it refered to as a digital video recorder.
Dvico Claim World’s Smallest PVR Dvico claims it has released the world’s smallest PVR, the TViX-PVR 2230, a mini digital media player with a built-in HD digital TV tuner that adds PVR functions; all in a chassis no bigger than the size of a DVD case.
JB Hi-Fi Takes The TiVo Plunge Hybrid Television Services has announced that its TiVo PVR will now be available in JB Hi-Fi and Clive Anthony stores across Australia.
EXCLUSIVE: Big Storage TiVo Coming Soon + More Retailers Seven Media has restructured their Hybrid Television Services Division which is responsible for the roll out of Tivo in Australia with the appointment of a new CEO. They are also set to roll out their PVR to additional retailers including Dick Smith as well as launch a 500GB attach drive for the Tivo player.
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