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Internet TV – the (legal?) show everyone’s watching
By: Alex Zaharov-Reutt

With an apparent desire for “one digital media box to rule them all”, Internet video has finally come of age, according to Cisco, showing Internet video is highly popular in Australia and NZ. What are we watching?


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Internet trumps TV, consumers say
By: Stephen Withers

The premium price of new high definition cable services may be a moot point according to survey findings released today. Broadband users spend far more time on the net than in front of their TVs.


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Take Mac TV on the road with The Tube
By: Stephen Withers

One feature that's been lacking in Mac TV software is the ability to stream a program so it can be watched live at a remote location. But the latest version of The Tube from equinux plugs that gap.


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Australian Foxtel HD pricing leaked
By: Alex Zaharov-Reutt

While it’s not official, the long awaited high definition content pricing for Australian pay television operator, Foxtel, has been leaked – and should launch soon. Australia is far behind the US when it comes to the provision of pay TV high definition television content, although some HD programming has been available on free-to-air TV for some time.


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Sex and violence from the iTunes Store
By: Stephen Withers

TV shows that attracted substantial criticism for their depictions of sex and violence and the use of coarse language are now available from the iTunes Store. Are your favourites among them?


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EyeTV 3.0.2 update adds features and even more polish
By: Stephen Withers

Elgato's EyeTV TV tuner software is well regarded among the Mac community, and for good reason. The latest update - version 3.0.2 - delivers some mainly geographically-specific new features along with a little spit and polish for users at large.


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ITWire by request: PS3 PlayTV preview
By: Mike Bantick

iTWire reader Electron Beam posed this challenge recently – to bring a 'dummies' explanation to the Sony PlayTV box for the PlayStation 3.


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GTA IV heading for the bargain bin?
By: Mike Bantick

The life cycle of entertainment products seems to be getting shorter and shorter today.  In the world of interactive entertainment in particular, a blockbuster title that took years of intense work and tens of millions of dollars to produce could only live for a short flurry of activity only to burn out sales wise, quickly becoming yesterdays news.  How do Developers, and Publishers feel about this state of affairs?  Radioactive IT asked them.


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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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Vote early, vote often, vote automatically
By: Stephen Withers

OK, it's probably a demographic thing, but I just don't get these TV shows where you're expected to vote for your favourite or most disliked participant. Apart from anything else, it seems like a waste of money - you want me to sit through the ads and let you take a cut of my phone bill?


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Can music turn Nokia into Rokia?
By: Alex Zaharov-Reutt

Nokia’s entry into the music business is one that further pushes Nokia into direct competition with the very telecommunications companies it does business with worldwide. But seeing how poorly telco music services have fared against iTunes, traditional CD sales and piracy in general, can Nokia take music and make it rock around the clock?


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NASA Television to broadcast HD Earth
By: William Atkins

NASA has announced that it will broadcast dramatic views of Earth from images taken by its astronauts in high definition television (HDTV) in honor of Earth Day, April 22, 2008.


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Space Junk: Maybe we need Andy Griffith’s Salvage 1?
By: William Atkins

On late-1970s U.S. television, Harry Broderick (Andy Griffith) ran a space salvage operation (Salvage-1), in which he and partners used a spaceship made from junk to reclaim NASA Apollo debris left on the Moon and junk satellites in orbit about the Earth. Maybe we need an Andy Griffith-type Salvage-1 operation to clean up space around the Earth?


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Want healthier, smarter teens: Ditch the bedroom TV!
By: William Atkins

A University of Minnesota study has found that older adolescents who have televisions in their bedrooms watched more TV, ate more sugary drinks and fewer vegetables, exercised less, and did worse in school than those without the “boob tube” in their bedrooms.


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Stephen Hawking to give NASA 50th anniversary speech
By: William Atkins

NASA has announced that British theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking will speak at NASA’s Fiftieth Anniversary Event on April 21, 2008, at George Washington University. The event will be carried live on NASA Television.


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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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South Park: online, free and legal
By: Stephen Withers

Full-length episodes of the popular - if sometimes controversial - South Park animated series are now available on the web with the backing of the copyright holders.


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iPhone web use booming
By: Stephen Withers

A pair of reports put Apple's iPhone at the top of mobile web use in the US.


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