SBS’ new online video service joins the ranks of ABC’s excellent iView and Seven’s slightly less sexy 7PLUS, but omits the catchy naming convention; it’s simply “On Demand”.
Aside from SBS’ homegrown offerings — programs such as Immigration Nation, Go Back to Where You Came From and First Australians — it’ll also offer up live streaming sports (presumably where it has the rights to do so) and feature films. If you sign up to the service you can save wishlists and be informed when new programs become available. The minimum bandwidth rate is stated as 1.5Mbps, essentially in line with other streaming services. At this stage no ISPs have announced that they’ll offer the service unmetered, as some do with iView on selected platforms.[On Demand]
Aliasalpha
Friday, September 2, 2011 at 11:07 AMThey could at least call it SBS-OD or SBS-VOD
EckyThump
Friday, September 2, 2011 at 11:08 AMI really like that this sort of access is becoming more prevalent these days, but what I don’t understand is why you can’t download, for use on a separate device! Surely it’s no different than if you recorded off the TV? #]
TSH
Friday, September 2, 2011 at 11:51 AMLast I heard, TV stations didn’t sell VCRs (or whatever the kids use to record TV shows these days). As has been pointed out, the software equivalent is available, if you can be bothered to look! :–]
EckyThump
Friday, September 2, 2011 at 11:58 AMSpeak more of this software young squire!, I wish to sally forth and search it out!! #]
smurfydog
Saturday, September 3, 2011 at 6:33 PMThere’s a FF extension that grabs iview. It’s in a .mp4 format that my set top box won’t play but it’s very quick to convert it it .avi with free software.
I hate watching TV shows on my computer, so I do this for a couple of shows that are on too late for me.
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/iviewfox/
http://www.pazera-software.com/products/mp4-to-avi-converter/
Andrew Watson
Friday, September 2, 2011 at 11:34 AMiViewNapper
http://users.on.net/~m.elliott/ivn/index.html
Max
Friday, September 2, 2011 at 11:36 AMI wouldn’t call iView “excellent”. The interface is decent, sure, but the video quality is terrible, lower than SD.
light487
Friday, September 2, 2011 at 11:39 AMYerp.. Video quality sucks and there’s not all that much content to be had. Once you’ve watched the good *cough* shows, there isn’t anything on to bother with until they update it..
Hamish
Friday, September 2, 2011 at 12:01 PMIt’s definitely watchable and absolutely free. Don’t complain or they’ll take it away! (((o(*ﾟ▽ﾟ*)o)))
dale
Friday, September 2, 2011 at 11:52 AMthis is good, where we live we don’t get sbs on the tv machine. hook up the pc and shes on
- regional tas
Peter
Friday, September 2, 2011 at 12:25 PMComing to mobile devices soon.
http://www.sbs.com.au/ondemand/mobile
ben
Friday, September 2, 2011 at 1:31 PMwe all know that ‘coming soon’ means ‘might be coming one day once we get round to it, if we had a date we would have listed it but we don’t so keep dreaming’
Nath
Friday, September 2, 2011 at 2:33 PM@ Ecky -
Only “time shifting” is legal under the Copyright Act – ie, record to watch at a more convenient time, ONCE, and then delete.
I imagine all the stations would fear that if they offered a download option, people wouldn’t use it to time shift, they would just plain ol’ have the whole series on their computer for free. That said, I don’t see why ABC would care about that as it’s non-commercial anyway.
Chris
Saturday, September 3, 2011 at 9:10 AMAny word of a samsung app or ps3 update for it?
Jaron
Wednesday, December 14, 2011 at 3:34 PMI would also like to know when I can have this on ps3.