The Minister for Communications, Senator Stephen Conroy, has announced that free-to-air TV transmission will become exclusively digital in northern NSW on Tuesday, 27 November 2012. Regions covered in the northern NSW broadcast area include Newcastle, the Hunter (Hunter Valley and Port Stephens), the Northern Rivers (Coffs Harbour, Forster, Grafton), the North West Slopes and Plains …
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Bram Cohen, the author of the BitTorrent peer-to-peer file sharing protocol, has demonstrated a version that handles live streaming. According to an interview with TechCrunch, Cohen has spent the last three years figuring out a way for live streaming to work via the peer-to-peer protocol. Although current streaming technologies are considerably cheaper than either satellite or terrestrial TV broadcasting, they …
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By the end of this week, subscribers to Foxtel on Xbox 360 will have three extra channels to choose from. Two channels are being added today: Cartoon Network and ESPN2. Cartoon Network is part of the basic AU$19.50 per month subscription package that everyone using the service must have. ESPN2 is part of the sport package that adds AU$10 to …
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From this week Sony Centres across Australia will be opening 3D libraries that will be lending out content and equipment for free for a loan period of three days. Each of the 12 Sony Centres around Australia will stock a 3D library containing Blu-ray movies and PlayStation 3 games. Also included in the library is gear that you can use …
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Subscribers to Quickflix’s streaming services will soon gain access to content from American pay-TV network HBO. Subscribers to Quickflix’s internet movie and TV-streaming service can shortly enjoy the thrill of the network’s series, mini-series, documentaries, films, and stand-up comedy hurtling down the internet to their TVs, PS3s and PCs. Titles available from the outset include Entourage, Sex and the City, …
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The other week, The Oatmeal posted a comic titled “Why 3D movies need to die”, which got us thinking: how often have people watched 3D content on their 3D-capable TVs? If it was up to this writer, 3D is something that would be banished to deepest, darkest, ickiest depths of hell to be kicked around by the gods and then …
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After adding Quickflix to its Blu-ray players, home-theatre systems and Bravia TVs in November, Sony is about to make the movie-streaming service available on the PS3 console. The free Quickflix app will be available from tomorrow (23 December 2011) from the PlayStation Store. You will, however, have to shell out some Australian pieces of eight to enjoy Quickflix’s catalogue of, …
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Xbox fans with a penchant for ABC’s TV programs have received an early Christmas present: iView is now available on their console of choice. The free iView app, available from today, is joined by a Dailymotion app, and both have been customised to work with the Kinect’s voice-command feature. These new catch-up TV and video apps will now share virtual …
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As part of the celebrations surrounding the 50th anniversary of the ABC’s flagship current affairs program, Four Corners, the corporation has released a tablet app featuring classic reports and behind-the-scenes videos. The free app is currently only available for Apple’s iPad. It contains 70 reports from the TV show, covering topics ranging from Vietnam and Hiroshima to police corruption, to …
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Telstra and Network Ten have signed a deal for the US drama Homeland to debut on the Telstra T-Box before airing on free-to-air television. The 200,000 T-Box subscribers will be allowed to stream the premiere episode of the series, starring Claire Danes and Damian Lewis, for free, and in advance of its first showing on Ten. How far in advance …
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