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1:30PM Nick Broughall | The thing that struck me about the press release for the WD TV Live HD Media Player wasn’t the ability to stream your HD content over your network to your TV (my PS3 does that for me), but more the fact that it apparently allows you to stream Pandora internet radio here in Australia. More »
The WD TV Live HD Media Player Apparently Plays Pandora In AU
1:30PM Nick Broughall | The thing that struck me about the press release for the WD TV Live HD Media Player wasn’t the ability to stream your HD content over your network to your TV (my PS3 does that for me), but more the fact that it apparently allows you to stream Pandora internet radio here in Australia. 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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ZillionTV: Oh Jeez, Hulu and Roku Done Had Themselves a Baby
8:19PM John Herrman | Streaming TV is on the up and up—that much is clear. What, then, does ZillionTV offer that, say, Hulu, Netflix, Vudu, and Apple TV don’t? A little convergence, maybe. More »
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Sony Has No Plans to Put Netflix on PS3
6:40AM Mark Wilson | Bad news, PS3ers. While most of us saw Netflix on the PS3 as inevitable, Sony is not only denying rumours of it’s arrival to the PS3, they’re explaining why they think it’s a horrible idea. More »
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Netflix Available on Tivo NOW!
3:01PM Adrian Covert | Dooooooods! Not only can you order pizza and carry on a technosexual relationship with your Tivo, but as of today, you can watch Netflix on it. I’m never leaving the house again…ever. AU:US only, if any of you were confused why Netflix wasn’t showing up on your Aussie TiVo… More »
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Netflix Roku Streaming Box Suffering From Serious Video Quality Issues
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Neuros Releases the Link, an Open Source, Web-Savvy Set-Top Box
7:07PM John Herrman | Neuros, who built their reputation with weird, chunky (but wonderful) modular MP3 players, has long since moved exclusively to the home entertainment field. Their latest attempt at eroding the Apple TV’s market share is the Link, a set-top streaming box that will pull video from a wide range of online TV sources — Hulu, NBC, ABC, etc. — as well as stream local audio and video content from any USB hard drive. As is always the case with Neuros set-tops, the Link’s software is open source and ready for modification. This time, mercifully, that might not be the box’s biggest draw. More »
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The Tech Specs of HD Netflix Streaming
4:20AM Mark Wilson | Hats off to Netflix. Without really being prompted, they’ve released their HD encoding/streaming specifications for the world to see. The company revealed that they originally considered a WMV3 (Windows Media Player 9) codec running at 4000kbps and 5500kbps, but opted instead for a similar Microsoft codec, the VC1AP running between 2600kbps and 3800kbps—which should provide a better experience for those of us with lower bandwidths. More »
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Netflix HD Streaming Coming to the Roku Box by Year’s End
8:22PM John Herrman | Roku’s lovely $US99 Netflix Streaming box, equipped with HDMI and optical outputs from day one, is getting Netflix HD streaming support by “the end of the year,” according to the company. With the software update users can expect access to Netflix’s entire HD library, an HD-specific, upsampled interface and “another major new feature” (Hulu?) that we’ll have to just wait “a bit longer” to find out about. More »
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