(They’re all looking at pr0n on teh intertubes!)
IBM’s done some research. It doesn’t look good for “passive” TV in general and broadcast in particular:
IBM Consumer Survey Shows Decline of TV as Primary Media Device
Seems that Seven’s doesn’t have to worry about third-party partners getting in the way of their TiVo roll-out next year - Ten’s gone to Foxtel.
Ten Joins Foxtel digital (TV Tonight)
NewTeeVee: One in Five US Homes Have DVR, Just not Tivo
The down-side is that TiVo’s offerings (regarded as better and more-mature than others) are still not #1. This is possibly due to an unpopular service-oriented business model. Could it be that TiVo’s “Betamax-alike” will be killed by the long tail?
FreeTV Australia (The Digital free-to-air industry association) has announced that free-to-air TV channels will have openly available electronic program guide information:
Aldi have another 250GB DVB PVR on sale Tursday 28-Jun-2007 (That’s next Thursday as I write this) for $199.00.
Parroting something from many other bl0gs: The Japanese Tetris game show.
glumbert.com - Japanese Tetris
This is a recipe Geoff Jansz presented on the Women’s Weekly Fresh cooking show on the Nine network some time in 2006. It’s impossible to find in the NineMSN AWW archives (indeed it seems Geoff’s left the show and the AWW’s tried to erase all trace of him too). It’s a really great recipe. The [...]