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Play: DVD

How do you get from high-class thrillers to low-budget schlock flicks? This week’s new releases …

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Change of Heart: 3 DVD rental services reviewed

Can a DVD addict find happiness through a mail-order rental business? I don’t know what it is about the many DVD rent-by-mail operations popping up around Australia that initially put me off. Is it the fact that DVDs wouldn’t fit in my mailbox anyway, and walking past the video rental store to pick up undeliverable DVDs at the Post Office …

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Smart Alex: ICEd TV

How much is your TV time worth, exactly? In amongst a slew of other things, last week I went to what was hailed as the first public demonstration of a new Australian TV technology, dubbed ICE (“Intelligent Content Engine) – you can read the details here. Now, there’s no doubting that inventor Peter Vogel’s a very clever man – aside …

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