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TelstraClear is adopting Sky’s rental model for its new HD PVR, the T-Box. The home media device is still being tested while the telco sorts out teething issues. But when it is ready for installation, customers can choose between paying a one-off fee of $499 upfront or a monthly rental of $14.95. However, the T-Box [...]

TelstraClear has renamed its soon-to-launch PVR the T-Box Personal High Definition Video Recorder. Long in gestation, the home media device promises to combine the best features of TiVo and My Sky HDi with the HD Holy Grail bonus of 1080p video. Five months ago the telco started demonstrating the T-Box in its Wellington and Christchurch [...]

In addition to its new range of 3D-ready receivers, Denon is shipping its first 3D-ready home theatre system to Harvey Norman stores. The 5.1-channel DHT-391 comprises a receiver, five speakers and an active subwoofer for $1,299. The AVR-391 receiver has four HDMI 1.4a inputs for 3D video pass-through from all mandated 3D formats for movie, [...]

Denon’s first 3D-ready receivers will go on sale here next month, priced from $799. There will be two 5.1 channel models (AVR-391, AVR-591), a 7.1 channel model (AVR-791), and a 7.2 channel model (AVR-891). Features will include HDMI v1.4a repeater inputs with 3D (all mandated formats), CEC (Consumer Electronics Control) support, Dolby TrueHD and DTS-HD [...]

TiVo users frustrated by filling up their hard drives so fast with HD content can triple their storage for less than half the usual price from this weekend. Customers shortly will be advised of a special deal on the 1TB Western Digital Expander drive: $174.00 (plus $15.00 postage) — or $195.00 off the recommended retail price. Of [...]

TiVo is launching a home networking package that will let owners shift content between the PVR and their computers, iPads and PSPs. It will sell for $129 through the new mytivo.co.nz online shop from this weekend. “It’s a home networking service where one TiVo can talk to another TiVo, or you can take the content [...]

TiVo owners could be in for an early Christmas present: HD and 3D downloads. The licensee of the world’s top-selling PVR, Hybrid Television Services, has revealed to ScreenScribe.tv ambitious plans to not only make TiVo more popular in New Zealand but also to accelerate the rollout of its CASPA video on demand (VOD) service. “It’s [...]

The last of Onkyo’s 2010 receivers, flagship models TX-NR3008 and 5008, will be released on September 1. The rest of the range, including the first network-capable receiver for under $2000 in NZ, the TX-NR708, is selling well enough to make Onkyo the country’s #1 receiver brand. According to distributor Avalon Audio, Onkyo has about 35% [...]

Two months before its NZ release, a top British website has acclaimed Panasonic’s 50-inch 3D plasma TV as “comfortably the finest mainstream TV Panasonic has ever produced, and one of the finest TVs ever seen period”. Veteran Trusted Reviews critic John Archer rates it 9/10 for performance and value, 10/10 for features, and praises the [...]

Sky TV and free-to-air broadcasters may not be ready to embrace 3DTV but TiVo has confirmed it will soon offer 3D content on demand. Across the Tasman, TiVo has become the first DVR or PVR to handle time-shifting of 3D broadcasts, starting with the State of Origin series and continuing with the FIFA World Cup. [...]