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IceTV to offer Ice-Cold On Demand Downloads
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supafly
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12th April 2007, 02:39 PM
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Im loving this By Demand stuff, im counting down the days to get rid of PayTV. lol. Finally can watch what i want when i want. This is seriously going to be the future, TV will soon be just an advertising medium to show off new programmes. Maybe not soon, but it will be the future.
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"likes of Amazon/TiVo, Wal-mart and BitTorrent"
Putting bittorrent in the same sentance or even in the same league as ANY other offering is a little silly. Firstly bittorrent downloads are seen to be illegal and secondly the number of shows/programs available via bitorrent put the combined numbers of ALL the others to shame not by a small margin but by orders of magnitude.
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How big of a download are they talking here? Our internet can't even hold a decent speed now, let alone video on demand. I'd hate to be sitting there waiting for buffering all the time.
What quality are they talking? Surely now with the HD age, we'll be downloading HD material and not going backwards, so how's the internet in Australia going to keep up with that, unless you're in a capital city.
If it was less than DVD quality, I wouldn't bother.
Will you own the video or does it self destruct in 3 days?
Lester
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Originally Posted by ExtremePC
"likes of Amazon/TiVo, Wal-mart and BitTorrent"
Putting bittorrent in the same sentance or even in the same league as ANY other offering is a little silly. Firstly bittorrent downloads are seen to be illegal and secondly the number of shows/programs available via bitorrent put the combined numbers of ALL the others to shame not by a small margin but by orders of magnitude.
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Just to let you know Bittorrent offer legal Movie and TV and Music downloads now   
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By
windeath
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12th April 2007, 06:22 PM
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And when Australia finally pulls its head out of it arse and starts providing decent download and upload speeds we can all enjoy video on demand. My 8mb/384kb service I have with WestNet is about to be given the ar$e. I upgraded my plan and my ADSL hardware to take advantage of all the funky stuff coming out at the moment on the web and the service is, putting it extremely mildly, sh!t. Internode here I come.
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maybe Im being a smartass here, but why dont IceTV concentrate on getting their EPG working properly in Vista first !!!
but yes, on demand is the future. I HATE those f*n pay tv scammers who make you pay for packages of SHYTE so you can get to one freakin channel you like !!
Hollywood is also getting excited by "Day & Date" so eventually, you'll be able to get a new release movie beamed to your home on the same day it hits theaters 
but this is Oz, so bandwidth wise - we need to catch up to the rest of the universe. I wouldnt get excited about all this stuff just yet
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By
aswigon
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13th April 2007, 04:13 PM
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Originally Posted by Astrotoy7
maybe Im being a smartass here, but why dont IceTV concentrate on getting their EPG working properly in Vista first !!! |
why is that you say it doesn't work? I have had it working fine now for about 3 months in Vista. not trying to be pro-IceTV but surely such a blanket statement requires some more detail.
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Hi,
This thread will tell a story.
It looks like an MS problem though, not IceTV.
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warren13
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13th April 2007, 06:09 PM
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Is this finally annother online spotlight content button?? hope it is better than Bigponds offering. Does raise the question about how you go about purchasing the stiff though, will you just be billed extra or will you need to put CC details into MCE?? Also what pricing structure, again this is competing to some extent with FTA TV.
warren13
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FredZ
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13th April 2007, 09:42 PM
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hmmm, I can't see this working unless the price of bandwidth/ data drops and/ or the cost of the movie downloads is small. Fat chance on either, I fear-
Telstra, feeling confident over its recent court victory, is about to screw us bigtime on bandwidth/ data. Second, I'm reading that elsewhere the price of legit, low quality movie download is as much or more than a DVD.
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Re: IceTV to offer Ice-Cold On Demand Downloads
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Originally Posted by Lester_Burnham
Hi,
This thread will tell a story.
It looks like an MS problem though, not IceTV.
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I wouldnt even say its an MS problem, because the very features that seem to be bamboozling Australian users were put in to make finding and providing EPG content a bit easier. Its just unfortunate that there is no official EPG here. So really it's an AU problem - but will probably require some workarounds and a hotfix or two two set straight...
astro
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Re: IceTV to offer Ice-Cold Downloads
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Originally Posted by Lester_Burnham
How big of a download are they talking here? Our internet can't even hold a decent speed now, let alone video on demand. I'd hate to be sitting there waiting for buffering all the time.
What quality are they talking? Surely now with the HD age, we'll be downloading HD material and not going backwards, so how's the internet in Australia going to keep up with that, unless you're in a capital city.
If it was less than DVD quality, I wouldn't bother.
Will you own the video or does it self destruct in 3 days?
Lester
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Hey Lester,
This is purely theoretical, but ... Downloads at a guess would be about 1-2 GB and it's quite possible you won't have to download *all* the movies from the internet! Quality will be ... SD, considering HD content sizes, plus you could expect the videos to 'self-destruct' after a few days of 'rental' thanks to DRM.
Thanks,
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Originally Posted by epgStream
... plus you could expect the videos to 'self-destruct' after a few days of 'rental' thanks to DRM....
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lolz, any gamer worth their salt knows about FRAPS.... the easiest way of working around DRM limits such as those Power to the peeps !
astro
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Gotta love FRAPS  Although I only use it for gaming (love to see that FPS counter at 50+ , its like an addiction) I can see how you could use if for copying movies. I did up a demo video of MCE and I used it to take the clips.
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The service, scheduled begin around mid-year, will allow subscribers to IceTV's seven day television schedule to download movies and television shows to rent or own. It will initially work with Windows XP and Vista media centre PCs, but IceTV also plans to make the service compatible with internet-enabled Personal Video Recorders, says IceTV general manager Matt Kossatz. Digital Rights Management issues will delay Mac compatibility. 
