Amazon Prime Video has a lower profile than Netflix and Stan in Australia but it has gone on the offensive ahead of a looming battle for subscribers. Australians have enthusiastically accepted the idea of subscription video on demand services. In August the research firm Telsyte reported that the global behemoth Netflix had approximately 2.9 million […]
STAN’s the man
Subscription video streaming platform Stan has hit 1 million subscribers , a figure considered to be the point where the Netflix rival would break-even , however chief executive Mike Sneesby has yet to confirm whether the business is about to turn a profit . The Australian-based Stan, a joint venture between Fairfax Media (owner of […]
Netflix To Produce Local Content
Is the Australian Government about to create a level playing field and require Netflix to produce a minimum amount of Australian content like local TV networks including Foxtel, Seven and Nine? TheAge reports Screen behemoth Netflix argues case against Australian content quota Could Australia be the first country in the world to impose a local […]
HD Subs ipTV Blocked in Australia
In April 2018. Australian courts have ruled that Australian service providers block access to subscription IPTV service APP HD Subs. HD Subs is an ipTV Service provider that allowed subscribers to dowload and watch content through it’s APP. HD Subs provide ipTV channels to users including Russian, Italian, European, Indian channels, sky sports, etc. The […]
Movie Studios Block Pirate Sites
A further 74 pirating sites such as Limetorrents, Putlocker, Kinogo, and Megashare could be added to the list of sites blocked by nearly 50 internet providers if movie studios succeed in their latest legal move to stop Australians streaming or downloading movies and television for free. This follows a ruling late last year that granted […]
Presto Closes Down 2017
Presto video streaming service to disappear as Seven sells stake to Foxtel. Presto will disappear early 2017 as Seven West Media sells its stake to joint venture partner Foxtel, while rival online video streaming service Quickflix is set to emerge from administration. Rather than keeping Presto running, Foxtel has announced the service will shut at […]
Netflix Growth Slows
Netflix’s stunning growth phase in Australia appears to be over. Now it has entered a period of mere ‘‘ steady’ ’ growth, and for investors, it’s a problem. The streaming video company reported its quarterly results in the US on Tuesday. Shares have tanked by as much as 10 per cent in after hours trading, […]
Foxtel iQ3 Set Top Box
Foxtel has stopped marketing its troubled iQ3 set-top box as the pay TV giant scrambles to iron out bugs that have plagued the video recording device since it was launched just over a year ago. Foxtel’s websites are now pushing earlier iterations of the box, the iQ2 and even the iQ1 with some offers, while […]
Foxtel + Netflix
Foxtel is considering putting Netflix on its forthcoming Apple TV-style streaming device as part of concerted efforts to neutralise the threats posed by the US streaming giant. Fairfax Media also understands Foxtel is urging content suppliers such as Discovery, the BBC and Viacom to sell it video-on-demand rights for all series of their key shows […]
Netflix Hits 75 million Subscribers
Video streaming service Netflix has announced it now has 75 million subscribers around the world, having added 5.6 million during the December quarter, slightly more than Wall Street had expected. Netflix is still losing money from its streaming business outside the US, and it expects to lose more – $US114 million ($164 million) in the […]
Telstra TV | Netflix , Stan & YouTube
Australians have enthusiastically embraced video streaming as an entertainment platform, so today we are excited to announce we are partnering with world-leading, streaming platform Roku, Inc., to launch Telstra TV – a new brand-new streaming service designed specifically for Australians. What Is Telstra TV? Telstra TV will add to Telstra’s existing entertainment services, which include […]
Netflix New Partners in Oz
Netflix’s exclusive partnership with Singtel-Optus has ended after three months, setting the stage for a bidding war between rival telcos vying to offer the popular service to win new customers. Both companies signed a deal that let Optus heavily feature Netflix in its marketing campaigns and hand out free subscriptions after the video-on-demand service’s Australian […]
IPTV Advertising Model
Buying the rights to content model will disappear enabling anyone access to content for their customers. Content owners who also deliver their own content such as News Corp through Foxtel will eventually change over to this model. Through IPTV analytics content owners will be given access by the IPTV Broadcasters to live statistics of their shows […]
Netflix Reality Check
For decades, Australians have paid more for television and movie entertainment than many of our overseas kin. Only recently have consumers begun to realise that companies operating here have, for years, been squeezing as much money as they can out of their content. But, as with clothes, cars and cosmetics, the argument that Australia’s isolation […]
Foxtel – TPG TV Deal
Foxtel has licensed some of its television channels to cut-price internet service provider TPG Telecom, which is set to launch its own premium television service from early 2015. The unprecedented move by Foxtel to sell a “white label” version of its content to an independent competitor is a further sign of the radical efforts by […]
Telstra Scraps T-Box
Telstra is expected to scrap its T-Box personal video recorder and internet television device. Foxtel is understood to be developing a cheaper set-top box in addition to its anticipated state of the art IQ3. The cheaper box will carry Foxtel’s Presto subscription video on demand [SVOD] service launched in March 2014. It’s possible the two […]
Google + Foxtel + Chromecast = IPTV
Google is hoping to embed Foxtel’s forthcoming video-on-demand service Presto and internet TV offering Foxtel Play as the key broadcast content for its forthcoming digital media player, Chromecast. Foxtel’s 50 per cent shareholder, Telstra, has led the early stage talks with Google, which began late last year. Google wishes to launch Chromecast, a dongle that […]
WiFi & IPTV Platform for Sydney Cricket Ground
The Sydney Cricket Ground (SCG) is implementing a new Wi-Fi network which is set to go live in January 2014. The network will allow sports fans to view high definition IPTV and mobile video on their smartphones or tablets. They can also order food and drinks without having to leave their seat. The platform means the […]
Telstra moving on the multi-screen IPTV Market
TELSTRA media boss Rick Ellis has thrown down the gauntlet to rivals in the IPTV and TV sector, saying the telecommunications giant wants to be the leader in the coming “multi-screen world”. Telstra is looking to offer different types of online video entertainment to multiple screens by Christmas, including advertising-supported video, pay-per-view video on demand, […]
IPTV is Coming To Australia
Two years after it launched its first line of commercial television transceivers in 1948, the Zenith Radio Corporation unveiled a device that would come to fundamentally alter the audience’s relationship with the idiot box: the remote control. That small hand-held device, then connected to the television by wire, has in six decades become the tipping […]
IPTV Set to Change TV Advertising
IPTV allows hyper targeted local advertising along with interest and behaviour based advertising. With IPTV you have an IP Address unlike free to air TV which blankets whole regions ignoring suburbs. IPTV will allow smaller advertisers to target the suburbs they supply services and products to. More local news could be delivered based on your suburb, […]
IPTV revenue set to reach $21.3 billion by 2018
Satellite TV (DTH or DBS) revenues are predicted to overtake cable TV revenues in 2013, but the fastest growing platform is IPTV, according to data compiled by Digital TV Research for its Digital TV World Revenue Forecasts, which determined that total global pay TV revenues will climb $19 billion from 2012 to 2018 to top […]
Philips to Launch IPTV for Digital Signage
Philips is launching in Q3 of this year its version of IPTV for digital signage, IP-addressable displays to which content is streamed from a centralized hub instead of from an attached media player. While LG’s EzSign TV and Samsung’s SoC platforms essentially embed a media player inside the display or on a chip, Philips is […]
Intel’s New IPTV Service Will Do What Google, Apple, and Microsoft Can’t
Apple and Google have been attempting for years to entice customers to ditch cable television for set top boxes that deliver TV shows, movies and more via the internet. For the past year or so, Intel has also quietly been working on a top-secret set-top box that could not only be better than what Apple, Google, […]
Real Change | IPTV, TV or Press?
TheAge this Saturday refers to the great battle with the internet, as TV networks struggle to hold on to viewers. Its becoming a regular and recurring theme of the printed press to refer to this so-called battle of “internet” versus “television” but rarely if not ever do they refer to the other great battle, “printed […]
Future of TV
Future of TV: fragmenting inside the box An array of new choices — Google TV, Apple TV, and internet TV — is reshaping the market, write Julian Lee and Lucy Battersby. TEN years ago the number of media choices the average person turned to each day could be counted on one hand. Nowadays you need […]
IPTV Australia Hits 5 Millions Users
More than a quarter of Australians will have signed up to an online television subscription service within the next 4 years, a report forecasts. And IPTV, other subscription entertainment services and new mobile media apps will drive growth in Australia’s media and entertainment industry of 18 per cent over the next five years, it says. […]
IPTV Content Providers
Australian company TV My Way is offering overseas content holders a cost effective method of distributing their channels in Australia. TV My Way provides a cost effective platform for Network Broadcasters and niche television programmers to get their content out to Australian audiences. The company is able to take an existing content providers live feed […]
Three-way shootout: IPTV
Television viewers are voting with their mouse when it comes to choosing alternatives to free-to-air and pay TV. No longer at the mercy of station programmers, viewers are flocking to their computers, smartphones and internet-enabled televisions to watch movies and shows when it suits them. In the process, some are ditching pay TV subscriptions in […]
Foxtel on Xbox – unmetered on BigPond
Telstra BigPond broadband customers will not be charged for any data when using FOXTEL on Xbox 360, and there will be six BigPond TV channels added to the service from Monday, May 30, 2011. This means all video content will be unmetered for Telstra BigPond customers when viewing the FOXTEL on Xbox 360 service, including […]