For too long the channels have pushed more and more intrusive advertisements on us and found ways to shorten the real program content of their offerings.
Improve Show Quality
Channel 10 recently announced that they would do away with credits all together in order to try and prevent channel switching. The painful reality is that it's not the credits of a show that induces channel switching, it's the quality of the programming. The hideous show "Big Brother" springs to mind....
The interesting and useful site Working Solo brought this to my attention:
The interesting and useful site Working Solo brought this to my attention:
Working Solo: "TiVO Coming to Australia
Tuesday, 24 June 2008, 11:36:33 AM Leah
Announced in a Sydney Morning Herald article this morning -
Seven’s long-awaited TiVo digital television recorder will go on sale in Australia next month, priced at $700.
The TiVo digital recorder has been a HUGE hit in the USA and I expect that the same will be the case here. The difference in Australia is that the TiVo box will be sold as an outright purchase as opposed to the subscription model they have in the USA.
TiVO will you to record all the free-to-air television channels (eg. ABC, Seven, Nine, Ten, SBS and their digital add-ons) using a built-in program guide. It will also provide access about 100 free internet video channels.
It will be interesting to see Foxtel’s response …."
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