The Australian reports that executives at Harvey Norman are considering their position on selling the McTivia media streamer, due to concerns over its potentially copyright-infringing promotion of VPN services to access overseas video content.
This week, IPTV service FetchTV is adding the YouTube on TV interface, making it simpler to browse YouTube videos via your TV set. That’s just one of a host of new options FetchTV is planning over the next year, including a full HD channel, access to iView, iPhone and Android apps and lots of other goodies.
In September last year, that number was around 100,000, which seemed pretty good considering the T-Box IPTV recorders and T-Hub home phone tablet only launched in June and April 2010. Fast forward to today, and Telstra’s latest performance results suggest that its annoyingly constant TV ads and Masterchef promotions might have worn us down: they’ve tripled the install base, and 190,000 of that number are T-Boxes.
This could be interesting if you’re an iiNet subscriber and seek a Foxtel alternative. The Fetch box can be returned obligation free — just don’t forget to do so within the trial period. Unfortunately, you’ll have to pay and then get credited back for box rental (ugh), though having to pay for pay-per-view movies is fair enough. [iiNet via Whirlpool and Lifehacker]
