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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 [...]

Two months after notifying customers that consumer testing of its super-duper DTR was about to start, TelstraClear still doesn’t have a date for when the service will go live. The media device sounds like a fantastic gizmo that combines a smart, sleek look with the best functionality of MySky HDi and TiVo — but with [...]

TVNZ and Sony Computer Entertainment New Zealand (SCENZ) have just announced that a TV on-demand service is now available on the PlayStation 3 console. TVNZ Ondemand is the first catch-up TV service to be optimised for viewing on the living room TV through PS3. It’s a free internet broadcasting service that streams a range of [...]

A new Anchor Bay video processor that promises to be a big step up from its first consumer model, the exemplary Edge, will go sale here within the next few weeks. The DVDO iScan Duo is being distributed by Control 4 and will sell for $2999. Anchor Bay describes itself as “a leading supplier of video-processing [...]

It’s almost two years since high definition broadcasting started in New Zealand but HD content is still scarce. TVNZ and TV3 screen fewer than 20 hours a week between them in primetime while only four of Sky TV’s 65 subscription channels are HD. There’s been a big hike in the number of movies being released [...]

They might be called universal remotes but not all of these couch potato gizmos are the same. A single universal remote control can be used to operate all of the components in a home theatre set-up, even if each is a different brand, from the TV and DVD or Blu-ray player to the audio/video receiver, [...]