Review: iiNet fetchtv (IPTV)

Jenna Pitcher
Thursday, 19 August 2010 17:15

Your IT - Entertainment

review Australia's fourth-largest ISP iiNet has partnered up with Australian wholesale subscription TV provider fetchtv to provide iiNet's new internet television (IPTV) service for iiNet broadband and DSL customers. The partnership was launched in June and August this year.

Design
The hardware received was fetchtv's standard set-top box (STB) with 3 TV tuners and a 1 terabyte hard drive. We also received one of iiNet's BoB ADSL routers (compulsory to use the service) and a remote. The STB is encased in a black gloss case, sits horizontally and is not much bigger than an Xbox 360. BoB is a high gloss finish, slim design similar to a monolith from 2001: A Space Odyssey on a much smaller scale with some added width and sass.

The original remote received was dead on arrival, but a replacement was shipped the next day. The new one was a universal remote, albeit a basic one that can control 3 devices.

Features
The fetchtv service is quota-free so it does not go towards iiNet customer's monthly quota, nor are there any viewing restrictions '” watch as much as you want. There are five major categories of entertainment included in the package:

• Free to air digital channels
• Subscription TV Channels: CNBC, BBC World News, National Geographic, MTV, Discovery Science.
• Video On Command: WarnerTV (comedy/drama), Frontiers (Sci-Fi), HiJinx (kids), GekkoTV (kids), Profiles (documentaries), Chronicles (documentaries), Earth Touch (documentaries)
• Movie Box Movies on Command: Movies from Disney, Warner Bros, MGM, Village Roadshow, Hollywood Studios
• Pay per View movies: 40 new release titles available at given anytime and are re-watchable within the 48 hours of renting it. The price for a movie ranges from $3.95 to $6.95.
  
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