Yesterday a White Noise reader got in contact with me regarding Netflix, which I’d referred to on the blog recently, and treated me to a demonstration of how the system works (by way of Apple TV). Colour me impressed by the service. For the uninformed, Netflix is a US service that provides a rich library [...]

With the business plan for the NBN announced earlier this week, there has been considerable discussion on video distribution online as being one of the benefactors of higher internet speeds. Foxtel Chief Executive Kim Williams, in an interview with The Australian, has stated: “I think you’d have to be short-sighted not to be concerned about [...]

After last weeks epic and over-long podcast, we’ve scaled back to a lean and mean podcast this week. But, what we do have is still pretty darn good. It was a big week of movements across the industry. Dan, Dennis, and Simon discuss: George Negus signs with Ten Kerry O’Brien signs up for Four Corners [...]

With Seven investing in Broadband internet, by way of Vivid Wireless, it was only a matter of time until we saw them actually move to make their TV content more widely available across the spectrum of possibilities offered by way of the Internet. Today, Yahoo7 have announced that their catch-up TV service PLUS7 will now [...]

Television changed completely this morning with the announcement of a subscription Hulu service. With Hulu unavailable in Australia, we’ll see minimal effect of its launch. The launch of Hulu Plus in the dominant US television market signifies a radical change in television distribution. Hulu Plus will cost subscribers $9.95 in the US and is available [...]