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 …
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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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Too many streaming services? Telstra wants to make it easier for you to trawl through all that sweet, sweet content and it’s releasing a new set-top box to help you do it. Telstra Thursday announced the upcoming launch of Telstra TV2 — the follow up to its original set-top box launched in 2015. The big selling point of the new …
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Now playing: Watch this: What’s new on Australian streaming in August 2:04 Stan has announced its lineup for the second half of 2017, and it’s a cracker of Aussie-made shows and cult classics. We’ve seen some hectic competition build in streaming over the past year or so, and as the small players drop off and the big guys get bigger, …
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Ahh Netflix. It is the price by which we value virtually everything else on the internet. No more, “That’s the price of two coffees.” Now it’s all, “Oh yeah, that shirt is worth three months of Netflix, I’d go there.” But from today, your Netflix bill (and, if my economics training is correct, the value of everything on the internet, …
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Good news everybody! Remember that scene in “Breaking Bad” where they dissolved a body in a bathtub and the body parts slopped through the floorboards? Now you can watch it in stunning 4K resolution! Stan announced the launch of Ultra HD streaming today, bringing shows like “Breaking Bad,” “Better Call Saul,” “Wolf Creek,” “Preacher” and “Transparent” to you in 4K. …
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If you thought Australia was a nation of Netflix addicts, you ain’t seen nothing yet. Use of online video services is set to skyrocket over the next five years, with almost 7 million Australians expected to be subscribing to a service by 2022. That’s a 170 percent increase from where we were at as a nation in 2016. The prediction …
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If you get Foxtel from Telstra for sport or “Game of Thrones,” you’re in for a price hike. Telstra has announced it’s upping prices, with subscribers to its top-of-the-line Platinum HD package now charged an extra AU$2 per month, and Sports subscribers having to pay an extra AU$4 per month. But while it will mean Telstra’s sports fans have to …
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