IceTV Launch $1 A Week EPG
IceTV is currently offering a promotion where you pay $49 for a year?s subscription to its EPG for $49, making it less than $1 per week.

More TiVo Boxes In Homes Predicted
The Seven Network is on track to sell 25,000 TiVo boxes by December and is confident it will reach its 50,000 target.

Ice TV Vs Channel Nine Goes All The Way To The High Court
In another throw of the dice Ice TV has been granted special leave to appeal to the High Court of Australia following the recent decision by the NSW appeal court that ruled that IceTV was permanently restrained from reproducing in a material form Nine Program Time and Title Information, to the extent that such information reproduces the whole or a substantial part of the Nine Weekly Program Schedule.

How To Get Free Foxtel Courtesy Channel Seven
Channel Seven and the current affair TV program Today Tonight are openly promoting the accessing of Foxtel content illegally over the internet. This is the same network that 4 years ago was wining about illegal use of their 2004 Olympics content by online providers and other TV stations.

Mother Hubbard TiVo And Free Foxtel Slammed
In a war of words over TiVo Vs Foxtel the CEO of Foxtel Kim Williams has described the new Seven Media TiVo PVR as being ?A bit like Mother Hubbard..a PVR that when you look on the inside is pretty bare?. He has also slammed Today Tonight after they revealed out to to get Foxtel services for free.

OZ Screwed At E3 Games Show
The biggest gaming show in the world has kicked off in Las Vegas with Nintendo saying that it plans to launch a 60 instrument music game for its Wii console. Sony has announced a new 80GB PS3 which will sell in the USA for $399 however Australians can expect to pay almost double that despite the dollar being at $0.96 to the US dollar. Also announced are new IP content services however Australia is set to be isolated from the new content services.

IceTV Frozen Out Of Channel 9 EPG
UPDATED:After the Federal Court of Australia issued its findings on the IceTV vs. Channel 9 Electronic Program Guide (EPG) court case- and its not good news for the free-to-air EPG TV provider.

IceTV Rolls Out TV Personalisation Software
IceTV has announced a signi?cant update to one of its key software applications, the IceTV Widget. Version 2.1 adds personalised TV recommendations, bug ?xes and large speed improvements.

Ericsson Unveils The Future Of TV
Only hours ago, Ericsson unveiled the future, as it sees it, of the humble TV, and if you believe the Swedish tech company, the TV set will be transformed from what is virtually now a dumb terminal to the controlling apex of our home and mobile communications and entertainment.

Mobile TV Booming Says Telstra
According to Telstra, its mobile customers have watched over 80,000 hours of mobile television during the month of April.

Seven Media Angry With Unwired Over TiVo Leak
Seven Media executives are angry with the CEO of parent Company Unwired after he leaked information on the pending roll out of the new TiVo content service. With an announcement due this week Seven Networks executives are furious that Unwired "stole their thunder".

Why Foxtel Should Be Very, Very Afraid.
A leading content researcher has said that organisations like Foxtel who deliver a payTV service should be afraid...be very, very afraid of what is about to be delivered to Australian consumers. Colin Dixon, Practice Manager for Broadband Media at the Diffusion Group has said that organisations like Foxtel are set to come under enormouse pressure from the likes of Blockbuster, Tivo, and organisations like Sanity, Microsoft Sony as well as several other organisations like Apple who are set to deliver low cost content over the Internet.

Seven Launches Free TiVo
According to an article in tvsquad.com, after months of planning, the TiVo and the Seven Media Group are preparing to launch the TiVo service in Australia.

Mobile Foxtel Aims To Become Third Screen
According to Telstra, Next G and 3G mobile customers are increasingly turning to Mobile Foxtel to watch their favourite programs, making the mobile phone the ?third screen? of choice for many subscribers.

Teaching Old Blu-Ray Players New Tricks
According to US reports, a Korean technology developer has begun selling an interactive platform that could turn the Blu-ray high-definition disc player into a networked platform providing HD content directly to viewer's TV screens.

Commercial TV Stagnates As Digital Rivals Bloom
Although from 1980 to 2000, commercial television revenues grew by 3.8 per cent, since 2000, alternatives to television, including the Internet, Pay TV, DVDs and games, have gained in popularity, attracting both new audiences and advertisers, according to ACMA.

EXCLUSIVE: Nine Win EPG Copyright Appeal Against Ice TV
Australia is back in the technology dark ages after the Federal Court ruled in favour of Channel Nine in their appeal against Ice TV who for the last two years have produced an electronic TV program guide for media centre and set top box manufacturers which Nine said breached their copyright.

IPTV In The Dark Ages Says ACMA
According to a report by the Australian Communications and Media Authority (ACMA), the Australian market for internet protocol television (IPTV) and internet video is less developed than many other international markets, with fewer than five IPTV providers and fifteen internet video providers offering full-length professional content directly to consumers.

Blockbuster Set To Role Out Movie Set Top Box
Unforunatly when it comes movie and music distribution Australia over the internet Australia is seen as being at the arse end of the world and a nation that grew monsters like Kazaa a web site that facilitated the illegal distribution of content. Another big problem is slow broadband speeds.

IPTV Operator RealTime Goes Bust
Melbourne based IPTV operator RealTime Media has been placed into administration. The Company that was trying to establish a movie download and rental business is looking for capital investment via the appointed administrator Ferrier Hodgson. At this stage debts are not known.

Foxtel Says Size Is Everything
Pay TV stations Foxtel and Austar, in conjunction with Multi Channel Network, today announced a new digital television audience measurement system (AMS) which is designed to radically change the way TV viewing is studied and reported.

ABC Roll Out IPTV Service That Will Suck Bandwidth
The ABC has announced four new Internet-based services that will deliver content to a PC or directly to a media player. ABC Playback, is a full-screen media player that will offer three channels of TV content delivered via the Internet. The new Internet service could end up with users chewing up vast amounts of broadband bandwidth as they stream content says a senior Telstra executive.

EXCLUSIVE: Telstra On Gateways, Blu-ray, Quality Content And Bandwidth
EXCLUSIVE: A senior Telstra executive has backed the Internet and storage kiosks for HD content as opposed to consumers buying Blu-ray discs and players. However he stresses that consumers still want high definition (HD) and ?Blu-ray quality? from their content and this he says they will get from the new Foxtel HD set top box. He has also hinted that a new home gateway that Telstra plans to launch soon may double as a set top box to deliver IP and Foxtel content.

Seven Cuts Deal With Foxtel
After months of lobbying the Seven Network to join its pay TV service, Foxtel will finally be able to offer its subscribers access to channel Seven after the two companies announced a partnership today that will see Foxtel retransmit Seven programs ? which is unusual since Seven has been preparing to launch its TiVo digital video recorder for some time.

Plasma Screens Public Enemy No.1
The Australian lounge-room packed with DVD players, plasma screens and other carbon-emitting electronic gear could become an environmentalist's worst nightmare, according to a Deloitte executive.

Games Consoles To Grow Content Downloads
Shipments of internet protocol (IP)-enabled consumer electronics products reached 64 million units worldwide last year, opening up an enormous business opportunity for value-added service providers and online gaming companies.