samuel337 | Shared With: Everyone - Jul 24 2008 | tv, internet, australia"After a year in the making, the ABC tonight unveiled iView in Sydney. The internet site has six channels which allow people to watch a variety of ABC TV programs on demand. Among the channels are a children's channel, documentary, ABC shop, a news channel, arts and Catch-up where people can view popular shows from the last few weeks. The children's channel includes unique content not available on TV."
This is cool - could make PVRs useless if more other channels do it too (and if our internet quotas are fairer). Sucks that you can only download shows within a certain period though... and the fact that the shows on ABC that are worth watching are already available for download anyway :)
- samuel337 | Shared With: Everyone - Sep 03 2007 | tv, internet
"European ISPs are up in arms over the BBC’s new online TV player, iPlayer... Apparently the internet isn’t ready for IPTV. As the Financial Times reports Mary Turner, CEO of Tiscali UK says, “The internet was not set up with a view to distributing video. We have been improving our capacity, but the bandwidth we have is not infinite”."
And these people think it's bad... come to Australia! But it's definitely an issue, especially when HDTV streaming is around the corner, partially brought on by the HD-quality video push by Flash and Silverlight.
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