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Does CASPA stand a ghost of a chance against Sky TV? TVNZ thinks so – that’s why it invested $8 million in 33% of Hybrid Television Services, the licensee of TiVo in NZ and Australia. Hybrid has used the belated launch of TiVo in this part of the world – a decade after it revolutionised [...]

Magic TV is the pick of the HD-capable PVRs assessed in the latest issue of Consumer magazine. It earns an overall score of 87%, compared with 78% for MySky HDi and Homecast HT92000DTR, and 77% for TiVo’s NZ media unit. All received Consumer’s “tick” of approval, unlike the Zinwell ZMT-640PVR and JC Matthew DVR-320T, which [...]

New content protection rules soon will make it easier to archive MyFreeview|HD recordings. Their application will give Freeview|HD DTRs the same advantage TiVo enjoys over Sky’s MySky HDi, whose users can’t burn their HD recordings to a hard drive or Blu-ray disc. That’s because Sky’s subscription-only signals are encrypted whereas Freeview’s, which TiVo also receives, are [...]

Voters in the inaugural online Freeview Awards stand to win one of three MyFreeview|HD DTRs. The awards have been launched on the eve of Freeview celebrating three years of free-to-air digital TV coverage, which now reaches more than 20% of homes. “So as people are becoming more and more aware of the benefits of migrating [...]

Twenty movies. Five Bonds. One place … and none in HD. TV One’s missed another golden opportunity to distinguish classic drama by not showcasing it in HD. It will launch a 20-week James Bond season on Saturday night with GoldenEye, just days after it was reported filming of Bond 23, which Sam Mendes (Revolutionary Road, [...]

HD’s popularity has helped Freeview to post its highest performing quarter since launching in 2007. As of 31 December, 346,116 households had Freeview reception, with the biggest hike coming in Freeview|HD homes – up 42,354, to 156,408. Over the same October-December period, Freeview satellite homes rose by 11,791, to 189,708. Freeview general manager Sam Irvine [...]