TiVo will be available for sale in Australia next week with a price of AU$700, after being beaten to the punch by Foxtel’s new HD+ service by almost a month. TiVo is expected to go on sale on 1 July 2008. Harvey Norman executive director, David Ackery, told industry publication Current.com.au that the TiVo box …
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Despite some teething problems with its previous promotion, Sony has decided to give its “free PlayStation with any 1080p Bravia” deal another whirl. This time around the company is limiting the month-long 1 July promotion to the first 35,000 customers, and will be composed of mostly last year’s models, according to TweakTown, despite new TVs coming out at the same …
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Samsung is set to announce a bundling promotion of a free Foxtel iQ2 box with its new TVs in order to compete with Sony’s new PS3-and-Bravia deal. Samsung is expected to pay the AU$200 installation cost to Foxtel customers buying one of its HD TVs, according to The Australian. “We are extremely excited about our partnership with Foxtel and hope …
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Sony has unveiled its latest “Bonus PlayStation 3 with a Full HD Bravia TV” promotion with a new “armaggedon clock” gimmick, and the announcement that all HD Bravias are included. Sony has set up a webpage with a countdown clock — available here — which starts counting next week, and tells you how many of the 35,000 PS3s are still …
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After three weeks of “soft launch” Foxtel HD+ is ready for the masses as it readies its media campaign for release on 22 June 2008. Foxtel may have an official launch date but not much else. Yet. Foxtel’s Brendan Moo told us that there is no new functionality to be made available on release, and that it’s essentially a launch …
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EzyDVD has announced it will be offering movie downloads in September via a new service called EzyDownload. EzyDownload will offer download-to-own movies and rentals from September The service will be a direct competitor to Bigpond Movies and will offer new-release movie rentals for AU$6 each in addition download-to-own (DTO) content. The service will use the assets of Reeltime.tv which closed …
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LG unveiled its newest LCD television range last night amid an overwhelming amount of cocktails, fashion, Z-grade celebrity — and not much tech. The “Scarlet” viral campaign — the brainchild of some guy who directed three episodes of Entourage, and which was repeated last night — spoke of a new TV series but for the first two hours there wasn’t …
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updated Foxtel has unwittingly unveiled its HD pricing today after inviting customers on its e-mail list to order its iQ2 set-top box, with callers experiencing long delays. A leaked iQ2 pricing document — available from Foxtel before the sites went down for several hours — suggests Platinum HD will be AU$130.90. A document leaked onto rumour site KnowFirst suggests that …
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Pioneer has announced new pricing for its range of Kuro plasmas in preparation for the next generation of televisions due later in the year. None more black (literally) Pioneer’s top-of-the-line full-1080p panels are now AU$5999 for the 50-inch PDP-LX508A and AU$9,999 for the 60-inch PDP-LX608A, which is about two grand off each. Unfortunately, if you were looking to buy one …
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100Hz technologies such as Samsung’s Motion Plus aim to combat judder and ghosting effects by adding extra frames to program material, and this can also make fast-moving content such as sport appear smoother. These new frames are not simple duplicates but “interpolated” — for example, the TVs processor works out where a football should be between one frame and another …
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