Humax’s DLNA-enabled PVR offers another TV catchup and recording option for Australian homes, but with PVR takeup rates being rather low, will anyone care? More »
Wow, Freeview. You just launched your EPG? The same technology that was selling DVRs six years ago? What took you so long? More »
If you own a TiVo, you’ll probably notice a slight change happening over the next week or so, as the option to “Watch TV” is twisted to instead say “Watch Freeview”. Confusion FTW!! More »
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 »
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 »
On the back of their new ad campaign being launched last night, today Freeview have announced which companies will be releasing Freeview badged equipment. And there are some biggies in there. More »
The Freeview marketing campaign rolled on over the weekend, with the second commercial being shown on all the FTA networks at 6:29 last night. But does it clear up all the confusion over extra channels? Hell no! More »
Finally, the people at Freeview have made a wise decision. According to Sally Jackson at The Australian, they have voted unanimously to include the EPG for community television stations in their broadcast EPG. That is, once Community TV goes digital. More »
After months of not saying anything much at all regarding its second SD digital channel, the Nine network has confirmed that rather than just time-shifting content, there’ll be a heap of original programming. And by original, we of course mean repeats of old sitcoms. More »
