commentary Australian broadcasters are mistaken if they believe that it’s possible to quell TV show piracy purely by launching iTunes-like video download services. Such a venture would flop faster than a Vanilla Ice comeback album, opines Asher Moses. According to Envisional, a web monitoring company, Australians are responsible for 15.6 percent of all online TV …
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Playback software supporting Blu-ray (BD) commercial movies, and video cards certified for High-Bandwidth Digital Content Protection (HDCP) are now readily available, which means BD disc drives can now be used to their full potential. CyberLink has released an update to its PowerDVD software suite that enables support for LG’s BD drives, while Sony has issued a PowerDVD update on its …
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Verbatim today announced the immediate availability of blank write-once (BD-R) and re-writeable (BD-RE) Blu-ray media, joining TDK and Sony as the three manufacturers shipping blank Blu-ray discs to Australia at this point in time. In contrast, HD DVD blanks are still yet to arrive. The discs are available in “single pack jewel cases”, with Verbatim selling 25GB BD-R and BD-RE …
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High-definition (HD) sports coverage will remain sparse this year, as broadcasters continue to focus their attention on movies and weekly prime-time programs. The 2006 Winter Olympics, Commonwealth Games and FIFA World Cup will all be broadcast in the lower-resolution standard-definition (SD) format. Technical staff at channels Seven and Nine did not respond to our specific enquiries, but spokespeople from both …
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