A couple more stories of mine from the Herald last week. No word yet on the availability of TV and movie content via Xbox Live for New Zealand customers but I’d be very wary before pressing “download” when it does arrive. That’s because it may blow your monthly data cap out of the water in [...]
Written on November 12, 2006 | Posted in
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Turn your computer into TV and video
Friday July 14, 2006
Reviewed by Peter Griffin
A computer can do many things: connect you to the internet, burn DVDs, play music and store all your digital photos. With the addition of a simple tuner card and some software it can also become a television and personal video recorder, capable [...]
Written on August 1, 2006 | Posted in
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Scitech bytes
I’ve just looked back at the column I wrote following the Government’s announcement and seen the ludicrous intro the subs put on the top of my story. Originally, I’d made some comment about Steve Maharey referring to digital TV as being the biggest thing in the TV industry that he could remember since the switch [...]
Written on August 1, 2006 | Posted in
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I’ve been immersed in discussion on digital TV of late, even went on Media Watch to talk about what it might mean for the country. It was a bad performance so I won’t link to it. Below however are a handful of articles on the subject of Freeview and the coming launch of digital free-to-air [...]
Written on August 1, 2006 | Posted in
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