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Sharp Aquos LC

Sharp has obviously decided that new tellies aren’t the order of the (Valentine’s) day when …

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Nine’s legal TV downloads: Almost there

Nine has been offering digital downloads for some time — if you need to quench your thirst for McLeod’s Daughters, it’s a decent way to catch up with episodes you’ve missed, without needing to sit in front of the TV at a certain time. Nine calls it Catch-Up TV. The broadcaster’s recent uploading of Underbelly 2 directly after its airing …

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Kangaroo has lost its bounce: UK VoD suffers

You could argue that Kangaroo, the online video-on-demand joint venture between ITV, Channel 4 and BBC Worldwide was never going to make it out of the marsupial pouch. A fairly obvious hint was the departure of Ashley Highfield, who joined Microsoft last year. But now it’s official: the Competition Commission has ruled that the project must not continue. The justification …

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