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YouTube Shuts Down API Access, Blocks Set-Top Boxes
6:59AM John Herrman | There are two ways for a device to access YouTube: either through the regular web interface (i.e. Flash) or for cleaner integration, through its back-end APIs. As of December, Google is shutting off the tap. Update. More »
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4:22PM Nick Broughall | One of the truly unforgivable aspects of the Foxtel Download launch recently was that it didn’t support 64-bit Windows systems. Fortunately there are people smarter than me who have worked out a way to get around this limitation. More »
Enjoy Foxtel Download On Your 64-Bit PC
4:22PM Nick Broughall | One of the truly unforgivable aspects of the Foxtel Download launch recently was that it didn’t support 64-bit Windows systems. Fortunately there are people smarter than me who have worked out a way to get around this limitation. More »
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Comcast TV Everywhere Goes Online Next Month For Free
12:21AM Mark Wilson | Last June, the US cable/sat industry announced plans for TV Everywhere, a way to bridge subscription television content to internet-connected devices. Comcast has just announced that their version of TV Everywhere, called On Demand Online, arrives next month. More »
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The Boxee Set-Top Box: It’s Coming
4:11AM John Herrman | Boxee’s fantastic media centre software has always been just that: fantastic connected media player software. Today, the company says its going to announce hardware — a Boxee Box, even. More »
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MPAA Is Still Trying To Plug Your Analogue Hole
2:40AM Danny Allen | Still use component connections with your pay TV box? Listen up: The Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) has again asked the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to let studios disable analogue connections during certain on-demand movies. The FCC currently bans this, and here’s why that’s a good thing. More »
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What A Paid Hulu Could Look Like
6:06AM John Herrman | AllThingsD’s Peter Kafka is busy dousing concerns that recent statements by News Corp’s Chase Carey—that “It’s time to start getting paid for broadcast content online”—mean that Hulu is going to die, dead. More »
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10:39AM Nick Broughall | Right now, I’m bathing in a sea of irony. It’s so thick, it feels like I jumped in a pool filled with slime. You see, Microsoft’s Zune brand has had a bit of a rocky start in Australia. Actually, that’s not right. It never had a start at all. But now it’s here, in the form of the Zune Video Marketplace on Xbox Live, and not only is it good, but it could well be the driving force in Video on Demand for the television in this country. More »
Zune Video Marketplace Hands On: Oh Crap! I Need To Upgrade My Broadband Plan
10:39AM Nick Broughall | Right now, I’m bathing in a sea of irony. It’s so thick, it feels like I jumped in a pool filled with slime. You see, Microsoft’s Zune brand has had a bit of a rocky start in Australia. Actually, that’s not right. It never had a start at all. But now it’s here, in the form of the Zune Video Marketplace on Xbox Live, and not only is it good, but it could well be the driving force in Video on Demand for the television in this country. More »
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Vudu Streaming Goes Live On LG BD390, With Rotten Tomatoes
12:27AM John Herrman | Vudu promised its 1080p a la carte streaming movie service would be coming to the LG BD390 Blu-ray player by the end of the (read: last) month, making LG’s connected box just about the best on the market. Well, it’s a little late, but it’s arrived in the US, and it brings with it a few new goodies: namely, Rotten Tomatoes integration. More »
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1:13PM Nick Broughall | I just received confirmation that the ABC iView service for your PS3 coming later this year will be unmetered on Internode. I’ve put the question to iiNet as well, but they’re yet to come back to me. Although realistically, if Internode can do unmetered PS3 iView, iiNet probably will too…
Confirmed: PS3 iView Will Be Unmetered On Internode
1:13PM Nick Broughall | I just received confirmation that the ABC iView service for your PS3 coming later this year will be unmetered on Internode. I’ve put the question to iiNet as well, but they’re yet to come back to me. Although realistically, if Internode can do unmetered PS3 iView, iiNet probably will too…
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3:30PM Nick Broughall | Yesterday the guys from Xbox showed us a demo of the new Zune Video marketplace for Xbox Live. Here’s the presentation from the event. You can’t really tell the scaling of the video quality as The Dark Knight starts on YouTube, but trust me, it’s pretty good to watch in the flesh…
Want To See What The Zune Marketplace Will Look Like On Xbox Live?
3:30PM Nick Broughall | Yesterday the guys from Xbox showed us a demo of the new Zune Video marketplace for Xbox Live. Here’s the presentation from the event. You can’t really tell the scaling of the video quality as The Dark Knight starts on YouTube, but trust me, it’s pretty good to watch in the flesh… 
