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EzyDownload to succeed where Reeltime failed

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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disgo Media Bank: Scart? Are you having a laugh?

Are you looking for a way of recording television or watching video you’ve downloaded from the Internet? disgo thinks it’s got the ideal product for you, the Media Bank. There’s only one problem: it’s standard definition, and that upsets us. So, what does the disgo Media Bank do? Well, first off, you can connect it to your computer over USB2 …

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Men in Black on Blu

Crave officially loves Will Smith. Our MP3 man Nate Lanxon loves him so much he actually claims to have previously been him. No, we don’t know what that means either. But as you can imagine, when Sony sent us Men in Black on Blu-ray, we were delighted. And not only because we got to watch the Family Guy parody of …

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Photos: Hitachi UT42

In Japan, Hitachi’s range of ultra-thin TVs are known as ‘Wooo’, which is pretty vanilla from the country that brought us the Nintendo Wii and tentacle-based pornography. Name aside, we’ve been excited about the inch-and-a-half-thick Hitachis since we first saw them at CES 2008, so when the company offered to let us get our sweaty hands on the 42-inch model …

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Analogue spectrum sale: Anyone want to go twos

You know how rubbish TV can be, right? If you think you can do better, now’s your chance — Ofcom has announced that it’s finally putting the analogue TV spectrum up for sale. We’ve known about this for some time now, but we’re only now learning about dates and how much is available. There’s 128MHz on offer, and each individual …

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Panasonic Viera TX

Not so long ago, Panasonic was telling us all that plasma was the future and we’d do well to remember that. The problem for Panny is that as good as plasma is for honking great TVs, it’s utterly hopeless for smaller screens. As the most popular screen sizes these days hover around the 32- and 37-inch marks, this year Panasonic …

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