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Entertainment
What Netflix On The PS3 Actually Looks Like
6:35AM John Herrman | The tale of Netflix on the PS3 is sad: Sony’s solution is only now shipping after sitting pretty on the Xbox for more than a year, and to add insult to injury, it comes on a disc. Thankfully, it’s slick. More »
Entertainment
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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Apple Wants iTunes To Replace Your Pay TV For $US30 A Month
3:57AM Matt Buchanan | Apple’s apparently pitching to US networks a subscription plan that would deliver all your TV shows through iTunes for $US30 a month, with the goal of launching it next year. More »
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Netflix Streaming Coming To Wii Next, Naturally
9:30AM Matt Buchanan | Netflix is finally, officially about to hit the PS3, leaving the Wii as the odd console out. Well, besides past hints and the whole “duh” aspect, StreamingMedia swears that the Wii is next, and has seen pictures to prove it. More »
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Netflix On PS3: Coming Soon
3:24PM Matt Buchanan | Uh, holy crap? As predicted, Netflix streaming will be available “later this year” on the PS3. Like the Xbox 360, it’ll be free with the $US8.99-a-month plan—and that’s about all there is on the details front. (AU: US only though…) [Netflix, Sony] 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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Hulu’s Free Glory Days Are Officially Numbered
6:56AM John Herrman | Hulu, at the behest of its co-parent News Corp, is going to start charging for content in 2010. This is not so good. 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 »
Software
3:15PM Nick Broughall | Just in time for finals season, Telstra has released the AFL Finals iPhone app. It’s not just for Telstra customers though, and it actually looks fairly swish. More »
Telstra Launches An AFL Finals iPhone App
3:15PM Nick Broughall | Just in time for finals season, Telstra has released the AFL Finals iPhone app. It’s not just for Telstra customers though, and it actually looks fairly swish. More »
Entertainment
10:30AM Nick Broughall | Today’s report in the Herald Sun that AFL chief operating officer Gillon McLachlan has recently discovered that AFL matches are being streamed online via services like Justin.TV just goes to show how incredibly out of touch the people who make decisions about TV sports rights are. More »
The AFL Just Realised People Watch TV Online
10:30AM Nick Broughall | Today’s report in the Herald Sun that AFL chief operating officer Gillon McLachlan has recently discovered that AFL matches are being streamed online via services like Justin.TV just goes to show how incredibly out of touch the people who make decisions about TV sports rights are. More » 
