Broadcasting
More people listen to Podcasts on PCs than iPods
By: Davey Winder
A new survey from Radio Joint Audience Research (RAJAR) reveals that 79 percent of people listen to Podcasts on desktop or laptop computers, compared to just 66 percent who use an iPod or other MP3 player. It seems that the average Podcast user subscribes to 3.6 Podcasts, spends an hour every week listening to them, and prefers comedy and music to all other genres. Interestingly, 53 percent of those asked would not mind advertising in their Podcasts as long as they didn't have to pay for the privilege.
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By: Davey Winder
A new survey from Radio Joint Audience Research (RAJAR) reveals that 79 percent of people listen to Podcasts on desktop or laptop computers, compared to just 66 percent who use an iPod or other MP3 player. It seems that the average Podcast user subscribes to 3.6 Podcasts, spends an hour every week listening to them, and prefers comedy and music to all other genres. Interestingly, 53 percent of those asked would not mind advertising in their Podcasts as long as they didn't have to pay for the privilege.
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Seven gives Foxtel the heave-ho with TiVo
By: Alex Zaharov-Reutt
With seven out of ten Australians choosing free-to-air TV over the Foxtel $100 per month pay TV option, and with most major TV shows millions watch still shown on free-to-air TV, the TiVo proposition with no subscription fees could well be the gold medal winner in the PVR stakes.
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By: Alex Zaharov-Reutt
With seven out of ten Australians choosing free-to-air TV over the Foxtel $100 per month pay TV option, and with most major TV shows millions watch still shown on free-to-air TV, the TiVo proposition with no subscription fees could well be the gold medal winner in the PVR stakes.
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ABC NewsRadio axes StarStuff program – why?
By: Alex Zaharov-Reutt
ABC NewsRadio, Australia’s only 24 hour continuous news service, has axed one of its longest running programs because it wants to divert funding elsewhere. The program? StarStuff, the only space, science, astronomy and cosmology show on Australian radio. What a shame!
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By: Alex Zaharov-Reutt
ABC NewsRadio, Australia’s only 24 hour continuous news service, has axed one of its longest running programs because it wants to divert funding elsewhere. The program? StarStuff, the only space, science, astronomy and cosmology show on Australian radio. What a shame!
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Will wonders never cease? Foxtel to finally go HD on June 22!
By: Alex Zaharov-Reutt
Foxtel is finally making the plunge into the high-def world of HD TV shows on June 22, boasting of 15,000 Foxtel subscribers already upgrading to the Foxtel HD+ service and the Foxtel iQ2 set-top box.
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By: Alex Zaharov-Reutt
Foxtel is finally making the plunge into the high-def world of HD TV shows on June 22, boasting of 15,000 Foxtel subscribers already upgrading to the Foxtel HD+ service and the Foxtel iQ2 set-top box.
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Get recommendations on good TV with IceTV
By: Alex Zaharov-Reutt
IceTV, an electronic TV guide for Australians using Windows Media Center, EyeTV on the Mac and selected PVRs, launches Australia’s first TV show recommendation service for users.
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By: Alex Zaharov-Reutt
IceTV, an electronic TV guide for Australians using Windows Media Center, EyeTV on the Mac and selected PVRs, launches Australia’s first TV show recommendation service for users.
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Watch out, Joost: Adobe’s Media Player “amps” up the ante!
By: Alex Zaharov-Reutt
Adobe’s new cross platform, customisable ‘Adobe Media Player’, or AMP, offers a range of well known TV programming from CSI: NY to Star Trek and plenty more from major players, giving ‘video consumers’ a whole new channel to watch!
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By: Alex Zaharov-Reutt
Adobe’s new cross platform, customisable ‘Adobe Media Player’, or AMP, offers a range of well known TV programming from CSI: NY to Star Trek and plenty more from major players, giving ‘video consumers’ a whole new channel to watch!
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Here comes Toshiba’s hi-def camera head cube: world’s smallest
By: Alex Zaharov-Reutt
Want to capture your reality TV show in high-definition, or simply have an HD camera where no other HD camera can yet go? Toshiba says ‘here’s looking at you in HD, kid’.
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By: Alex Zaharov-Reutt
Want to capture your reality TV show in high-definition, or simply have an HD camera where no other HD camera can yet go? Toshiba says ‘here’s looking at you in HD, kid’.
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ABC launches 1, 2 and 3 new online TV channels
By: Alex Zaharov-Reutt
Just like the BBC in the UK, the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) has launched a range of online channels. The first will let you ‘catch up’ on broadcast programs, the second has a range of documentaries while the third will offer to sell you digital media – but it’s all still in ‘beta’.
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By: Alex Zaharov-Reutt
Just like the BBC in the UK, the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) has launched a range of online channels. The first will let you ‘catch up’ on broadcast programs, the second has a range of documentaries while the third will offer to sell you digital media – but it’s all still in ‘beta’.
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SBS’s ‘Obscene Machines’ too robotically obscene for ACMA
By: Alex Zaharov-Reutt
ACMA, the Australian Communications and Media Authority, has ruled that Australia’s SBS television has breached SBS’s own ‘Codes of Practice 2006’ by not complying with MA 15+ classification guidelines for a TV program showing sexual gratification by artificial means.
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By: Alex Zaharov-Reutt
ACMA, the Australian Communications and Media Authority, has ruled that Australia’s SBS television has breached SBS’s own ‘Codes of Practice 2006’ by not complying with MA 15+ classification guidelines for a TV program showing sexual gratification by artificial means.
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BigPond Sports Weekend - a big challenge to regular sports broadcasters?
By: Alex Zaharov-Reutt
Telstra BigPond’s continuing forays into the world of broadcast television have just become even bolder with the launch of the “BigPond Sports Weekend”, further cementing the Internet and mobile phones as strong content alternatives to free-to-air and pay TV.
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By: Alex Zaharov-Reutt
Telstra BigPond’s continuing forays into the world of broadcast television have just become even bolder with the launch of the “BigPond Sports Weekend”, further cementing the Internet and mobile phones as strong content alternatives to free-to-air and pay TV.
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Skyfire unveils iPhone-like browser for smartphones
By: Alex Zaharov-Reutt
If you’ve ever wished that your mobile phone’s screen could render web pages as you see them on a desktop computer, including Flash video, AJAX, Java and more, don’t look up to an iPhone – look up to the Skyfire.
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By: Alex Zaharov-Reutt
If you’ve ever wished that your mobile phone’s screen could render web pages as you see them on a desktop computer, including Flash video, AJAX, Java and more, don’t look up to an iPhone – look up to the Skyfire.
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Australia versus India Twenty20 match to be broadcast in high definition
By: Adam Turner
The Twenty20 clash between Australia and India is set to be broadcast in high definition from the Melbourne Cricket Ground on February 1.
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By: Adam Turner
The Twenty20 clash between Australia and India is set to be broadcast in high definition from the Melbourne Cricket Ground on February 1.
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Hostworks set to join Macquarie family
By: Stephen Withers
Service provider Hostworks is set to become a subsidiary of Broadcast Australia, itself part of the Macquarie Communications Infrastructure Group.
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By: Stephen Withers
Service provider Hostworks is set to become a subsidiary of Broadcast Australia, itself part of the Macquarie Communications Infrastructure Group.
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Is Hulu.com cool-u or just a lotta hoopla?
By: Alex Zaharov-Reutt
Hulu.com, the new TV show website owned by NBC and News Corp, has launched in a private beta at last, promising one killer feature – premium prime time current TV shows that people are watching now, like Heroes, Prison Break, Bionic Woman and more – but is Hulu just a glorified TV catch-up site?
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By: Alex Zaharov-Reutt
Hulu.com, the new TV show website owned by NBC and News Corp, has launched in a private beta at last, promising one killer feature – premium prime time current TV shows that people are watching now, like Heroes, Prison Break, Bionic Woman and more – but is Hulu just a glorified TV catch-up site?
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Seven's HDTV multi-channelling joke continues
By: Adam Turner
The Seven network's half-arsed foray into high definition multi-channelling shows no sign of improvement, as the television network continues to pull HD programs from the air.
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By: Adam Turner
The Seven network's half-arsed foray into high definition multi-channelling shows no sign of improvement, as the television network continues to pull HD programs from the air.
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Can SanDisk TakeTV to the next level in TV download wars?
By: Alex Zaharov-Reutt
Packaging a 4GB or 8GB USB flash drive with a TV remote and video out cables, alongside a legal TV and movie download service with a growing library of content is a smart move for the No.2 in digital media players, SanDisk.
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By: Alex Zaharov-Reutt
Packaging a 4GB or 8GB USB flash drive with a TV remote and video out cables, alongside a legal TV and movie download service with a growing library of content is a smart move for the No.2 in digital media players, SanDisk.
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ATOM Award finalist lives in Second Life
By: Mike Bantick
‘Thursday’s Fictions’ has many lives, one as a strong contender in the ‘Best Experimental’ category of Enhance TV’s ATOM Awards, another as a popular location in Second Life.
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By: Mike Bantick
‘Thursday’s Fictions’ has many lives, one as a strong contender in the ‘Best Experimental’ category of Enhance TV’s ATOM Awards, another as a popular location in Second Life.
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Blu-Ray and HD DVD: combo player/recorders the answer?
By: Alex Zaharov-Reutt
The launch of Sony’s fastest Blu-ray burner, able to record a 50GB dual-layer BD-R disc at 4x speed in 45 minutes, is simultaneously cool, while also showing how far we’ve got to go before it only takes 5 minutes and combo Blu-Ray/HD DVD drives are standard, as combo DVD±R is today.
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By: Alex Zaharov-Reutt
The launch of Sony’s fastest Blu-ray burner, able to record a 50GB dual-layer BD-R disc at 4x speed in 45 minutes, is simultaneously cool, while also showing how far we’ve got to go before it only takes 5 minutes and combo Blu-Ray/HD DVD drives are standard, as combo DVD±R is today.
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