Subscribers to Foxtel on Xbox 360 can now control the service via voice and gesture controls, in addition to using their Xbox controller. To use the new feature, users will have to agree to update their software, while a Microsoft Kinect device is required to do all the grunt work behind the voice recognition and …
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During the weekend, the overlords at Apple’s app headquarters approved Quickflix’s new streaming video app, Quickflix WatchNow, for iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch. The new app allows subscribers of Quickflix’s streaming video services to watch available TV series and movies, streamed directly to their iOS device. The catalogue includes slightly older movies from Warner Brothers, Sony Pictures and NBC Universal, …
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If you live in the UK and love the Olympics, then the BBC has excellent news for you. The national broadcaster will stream or broadcast every event live. In addition to broadcasting the Olympics across multiple TV channels (BBC One, BBC One HD, BBC Three and BBC HD) and radio networks (Radio 5 Live, Radio 5 Live Sports Extra and …
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You may have the newest, shiniest television on your street, but it will be all for nought, if you can’t receive free-to-air digital TV. If your home is wired up to Foxtel or Austar, don’t think that this guide doesn’t apply to you. Depending on where you live, and how you receive pay TV (cable or satellite), free-to-air channels may …
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If reports in Nikkei (subscription required) and Reuters are to be believed, then Sony and Panasonic are about to team up to design and make OLED TVs. The reports state that the potential Sony and Panasonic collaboration would begin churning out OLED TVs starting the 2015 financial year, which in Japan runs from 1 April 2015 to 31 March 2016. …
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Foxtel has launched an internet catch-up TV service, accessible from its iQ PVR. To access the recently launched service, all you need to do is plug in an Ethernet cable from your internet router to the back of your Foxtel iQ box, and enable On Demand services via either the Foxtel website or its support line (131 999). Once that’s …
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Just because you have an HDTV and what you’re watching is advertised as being HD, doesn’t mean you’re watching or seeing HD video. Not all HD is the same. For that matter, just because you have an HDTV doesn’t mean you’re actually watching high-definition video. A variety of factors could be conspiring to create an image that’s not nearly as …
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Here’s something we noticed today whilst browsing the Australian iTunes store: we Antipodeans can now opt for TV series in HD. Individual episodes are being offered for AU$3.49 each. SD episodes are priced at AU$2.99, and, as per usual, there’s a slight discount for buying an entire season. By way of comparison, individual HD episodes in the US store go …
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Amongst the minutiae of dental schemes and tax adjustments in the 2012-13 Budget lies a gem for anyone who’s a fan of the country’s multicultural broadcaster SBS: a funding boost, and a takeover of the existing indigenous broadcaster NITV. SBS, which has been suffering under tight financial circumstances, will receive an extra AU$158 million over the next five years from …
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Nine Network affiliate WIN has launched a new digital channel WIN Gold, but before you get too excited, it’s a home shopping channel in the style of Seven’s TV4Me and Nine’s Extra. Despite bearing a name that brings to mind either Olympics glory or classic TV (or both), the station will feature primarily advertorial content interspersed with, WIN promises, “education, …
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