It’s Australia Day. There’s a good chance many of you are sitting back, beer in hand listening to Triple J’s Hottest 100. Others may be listening to Whispering Jack on repeat (It’s okay, we’ve all been there). The point is that music on Australia day is as Australian as Anzac biscuits. Which makes Lifehacker’s monstrous study of Australian music availability on iTunes so much more pertinent. More »
When HD DVD gave up the ghost a couple of years ago, many pundits claimed that it was merely a battle won for Blu-ray, and that they’d need to man up to face the war with digital downloads. Now in 2010, it’s time to take a look at just how well that war is going, and who exactly is winning it here in Australia. More »
This seems… backwards. If you want to buy OAR’s new album on Amazon, you’re going to end up paying 50 per cent more for a digital download than you would for a physical disc. More »
Showtime has begun selling episodes of Weeds online before the show’s full-season DVD release, a first for the series. And Weeds isn’t nearly the only one – is Hollywood finally embracing digital downloads as the successor to DVD? More »
These days it takes a little more effort to push an entire album of music. For some, it’s free digital downloads, for Mos Def, it’s t-shirts. More »
Didn’t hear? Dell launched a download store in January. Today they became the only third-party retailer to sell Microsoft downloads. Problem is, they sell Office Home and Student for $US130, where Amazon sells it, in the box, for $US95. [Dell]
Along with its new range of Blu-ray recorders and players, Panasonic were also showing off their new Viera Cast IP technology, which is built into pretty much everything in the new range. It’s an IP entertainment solution, and while it’s no Netflix or TiVo yet, it has the potential for greatness, if only they can get the right partners on board. More »
iTunes, Netflix, Amazon and even PSN are all pretty good at distributing downloadable movies and music. But all of these data files, as easy as they are to buy, make for a crappy gift.
