Back in March, the whole of Australia watched Cameron Bancroft rough up a cricket ball during the South African ball-tampering fiasco. A nation squinted to see its shame in standard definition. Imagine if you could have seen that catastrophe play out in stunning Ultra HD! Now, 4K Cricket (and 4K NRL, movies, documentaries and concerts) …
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Optus has announced Tuesday it is will stream every match of the 2018 FIFA World Cup this June through July, with all Australians able to access the games, regardless of whether they’re an Optus customer. The Optus Sport app (previously only available to select Optus customers) will be the only way Australians can watch all 64 matches in the World …
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Foxtel is looking decidedly un-Foxtelish these days. Pay TV without the cable. Playing nice with other streaming services. A Foxtel box that doesn’t really look like a Foxtel box. The company Wednesday announced the launch of the Foxtel Now Box — a set-top puck created for Foxtel’s pay-by-the-month streaming service, Foxtel Now, a puck which supports other streaming services and …
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If Telstra has its way, you’ll never have to go anywhere else for entertainment ever again. The telco announced Monday the launch of Telstra TV2, also dubbed “the new Telstra TV,” building on the first generation, Roku-powered set-top box it first released in 2015. The second-gen device has a lot of the same features as the original Telstra TV — …
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Australia, we’ve long thought we’re getting ripped off when it comes to what media we can legally access online. Now we have the stats to prove it. When it comes to what we can watch on streaming services, new research conducted by the Queensland University of Technology (QUT) and ACCAN, shows Australians are massively losing out compared to Americans. Only …
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Remember when streaming TV meant torrenting or paying per episode, months after your favourite show had aired overseas? Things have changed. The arrival of Netflix and Stan in 2015 saw a massive shake up in the local market with established players like Foxtel lowering its prices and other smaller operations shutting up shop altogether (farewell Ezyflix!). But which streaming or …
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Apple and Samsung are both about to release shiny new phones, and Telstra wants to seize the opportunity. The telco has partnered with Foxtel to bring the entertainment giant’s Foxtel Now online streaming service to its mobile customers. That’s good news for anyone who’s been guzzling data by watching “Game of Thrones” on their commute. You’ll get the free subscription …
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It used to take months for movies to make their way from the cinema to your home. Now, that wait could be as little as one week. Foxtel and Dendy on Thursday announced a partnership for the “near simultaneous” release of feature films. You’ll be able to see a raft of “niche feature and documentary films” in any Dendy (or …
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If you’re a fight fan, Sunday is the big day. Floyd Mayweather Jr. vs. Conor McGregor. Two go in, fight of the century, leaving nothing in the ring … et cetera. But if you’re a big boxing fan, this kind of fight is previously something you would have needed to watch through a Foxtel subscription. Not now. On Friday, Foxtel announced fans …
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Accessing pirate sites on the internet just got that little bit harder in Australia. In two concurrent cases brought by Foxtel and Roadshow Films against Australia’s biggest internet service providers, the Federal Court of Australia has ordered ISPs to block access to more than 50 pirate sites within three weeks. The total block list from both rights holders includes 66 separately-listed websites, …
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