Recently the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) announced a further development for their iView on-demand internet based video service and Sony. The new internet enabled Sony Bravia televisions and Blu-ray players will allow access to ABC’s iView. The partnership between the two institutions began last year with the introduction of access to iView through Sony’s PlayStation [...]

Recently the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) announced a partnership with Sony, to allow PS3 owners access to their on-demand internet based video service, iView. This partnership will aid in the progression of online video content be viewed on a television rather than solely being viewed upon a computer screen. Kim Dalton, ABC’s Director of Television says [...]

An article published on The Age website speaks of the increase in Australians use of illegal Bittorrent sites. Australians usage ‘grew from 785,000 in April last year to 1,049,000 in April this year, Nielsen says. This is a year-on-year increase of 33.6 per cent.’?As seen previously, ‘industry research has shown that Australians are per capita one of the world's biggest users’. Legal download sites e.g. the iTunes and Bigpond stores, ‘are not yet making up for the drop in physical disc sales’.