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Details On Telstra’s T-Box Announced

1:40PM Nick Broughall | Back in March, Telstra said they’d be launching 100Mbps cable in Melbourne. Today, the Big T announced that they’d be flicking the switch on December 1, as well as confirming details on the T-Box. Not to be confused with the T-Hub, this one’s a DVR! For TV. More »
Entertainment

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

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

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

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

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

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 »
Screens

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 »
Entertainment

HD Sony PlayTV Coming To Australia In October

10:41AM Nick Broughall | Could 2009 be the year of Playstation entertainment? The Australian is reporting that Sony’s long awaited PlayTV will be launching in Australia in October. Not only that, but it will be a HD version of the device that will launch down here before anywhere else in the world. More »
Business

After a Short Break, TiVo Gets Back To Losing All Its Money

10:30PM John Herrman | First quarter results are in for TiVo, and they’re not great: revenue is down 9% from the same quarter last year, forcing the company to report a hefty loss just a few months after recording their first year of profitability, ever. More »