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12:00PM Nick Broughall | Sony have been telling us that the PlayTV is coming to Australia this year ever since it didn’t arrive for their deadline last year. But their PlayStation 3 website has a brochure that promises the digital TV tuner for your PS3 will arrive late 2009. More »
Sony Promise PlayTV Coming This Year… In Writing
12:00PM Nick Broughall | Sony have been telling us that the PlayTV is coming to Australia this year ever since it didn’t arrive for their deadline last year. But their PlayStation 3 website has a brochure that promises the digital TV tuner for your PS3 will arrive late 2009. More » 
Entertainment
1:42PM Nick Broughall | Just following up on this little story from last week — yesterday DViCo’s Aussie distributor, Also Technologies, issued a statement saying they were removing the UK Freeview logo from their marketing, plus materials and packaging, to “avoid confusion”. It’s a shame that the small company has to be the ones to try and stifle all the confusion created by Freeview in Australia, but when the big dogs set your lawyers after you, what’s a small company to do? More »
DViCO Backs Down On Freeview Issue
1:42PM Nick Broughall | Just following up on this little story from last week — yesterday DViCo’s Aussie distributor, Also Technologies, issued a statement saying they were removing the UK Freeview logo from their marketing, plus materials and packaging, to “avoid confusion”. It’s a shame that the small company has to be the ones to try and stifle all the confusion created by Freeview in Australia, but when the big dogs set your lawyers after you, what’s a small company to do? More »
Entertainment
2:36PM Nick Broughall | So earlier today when I said that DViCo was Freeview badged? Turns out that they stuck the logo on without actually jumping through Freeview’s anti-ad skipping hoops. Which could be a win for potential customers. More »
Freeview Lays The Smackdown On DViCo
2:36PM Nick Broughall | So earlier today when I said that DViCo was Freeview badged? Turns out that they stuck the logo on without actually jumping through Freeview’s anti-ad skipping hoops. Which could be a win for potential customers. More »
Entertainment
10:30AM Nick Broughall | If you judge products by their spec sheet alone, then DViCo’s latest PVR is one of the most attractive home entertainment devices ever released. But it’s still a long way from perfect. More »
DViCo’s Latest TViX PVR Is Like A Dyslexic TiVo
10:30AM Nick Broughall | If you judge products by their spec sheet alone, then DViCo’s latest PVR is one of the most attractive home entertainment devices ever released. But it’s still a long way from perfect. More »
Entertainment
2:13PM Nick Broughall | Following in the footsteps of their Wi-Fi enabled Blu-ray players, LG today launched their new range of connected DVRs. But it doesn’t look like the connection works both ways… More »
LG Brings Wi-Fi To Their DVRs
2:13PM Nick Broughall | Following in the footsteps of their Wi-Fi enabled Blu-ray players, LG today launched their new range of connected DVRs. But it doesn’t look like the connection works both ways… More »
Entertainment
10:31AM Nick Broughall | A source close to Austar has seen fit to send us some (as yet unconfirmed) details of the upcoming HD MyStar service in Australia. It sounds pretty decent… More »
Unconfirmed: Austar’s MyStar HD Launching Mid-November, 15 HD Channels
10:31AM Nick Broughall | A source close to Austar has seen fit to send us some (as yet unconfirmed) details of the upcoming HD MyStar service in Australia. It sounds pretty decent… More »
Business
TiVo Sues Verizon And AT&T
3:14AM Brian Lam | Dave Zatz brings to our attention details from the Tivo Earnings call. First, they lost more subscribers. Secondly, they’re suing Verizon and AT&T for DVR patent violation. Doesn’t seem like a good business strategy, but what do I know? I still like TiVo. I just hate TV. [DaveZatz]
Entertainment
Moxi HD DVR Gets 6TB Drive Support, Spawns “Moxi Mate” Media Extender
3:35AM John Herrman | The Moxi HD, everyone’s favourite not-TiVo, has been joined by a media extender box, alongside a fresh software update, which among other things allows the Moxi to offload video to Lacie’s 6TB drive banks. That’s over 1000 hours of HDTV. More »
Deals
9:46AM Nick Broughall | Good news for anyone wanting to pick up a new Panasonic Lumix DMC-FT1 or DMC-TZ7 – Panasonic’s running a promo that offers you a one in five chance of getting a bonus DMR-XW350s HD DVR worth $1,099. More »
Panasonic Offering 1-In-5 Chance To Win Promo
9:46AM Nick Broughall | Good news for anyone wanting to pick up a new Panasonic Lumix DMC-FT1 or DMC-TZ7 – Panasonic’s running a promo that offers you a one in five chance of getting a bonus DMR-XW350s HD DVR worth $1,099. More »
Screens
11:04AM Nick Broughall | Considering LG launched its first HDTV with a build in hard drive years ago, I’m surprised we haven’t seen other companies offering the same feature. Maybe it was just that they hadn’t come up with a cool name for it, like ‘Time Machine’. More »
LG’s ‘Time Machine’ Plasma Don’t Actually Travel Through Time
11:04AM Nick Broughall | Considering LG launched its first HDTV with a build in hard drive years ago, I’m surprised we haven’t seen other companies offering the same feature. Maybe it was just that they hadn’t come up with a cool name for it, like ‘Time Machine’. More » 
