Defiant iiNet to launch Tivo-killer broadband PVR

[Marauder]

Despite facing a massive lawsuit from movie and TV production studios, iiNet says it will launch an IPTV service with a difference.

iiNet has revealed that it will soon launch a TV-over-internet protocol service for its 200,000 customers on iiNet DSLAMs.

It won't be a plain-vanilla TV-over-IP service though; it will come with a dual-tuner free-to-air PVR, competing head-to-head with Channel 7's Tivo. iiNet's PVR will include an electronic program guide.

It will also offer on-demand shows which iiNet says will include "TV shows and the latest movies", as well as live TV channels and interactive news, weather, games and 'voice' channels (possibly suggesting iiNet will build VoIP into the box.)

A screenshot of the IPTV interface in iiNet's Annual General Meeting slides shows some high quality channels including CNN, BBC2, ITV3 -- though these may just have been used in the mockup.



Above: a slide from the iiNet annual general meeting presentation.

iiNet already provides unmetered access to ABC's iView service, iTunes downloads, Barclay's Premier League, Golf Majors highlights, NASA TV and 60 radio stations.

Managing Director Michael Malone said the company was seeing very fast growth in the area of Naked DSL as well, suggesting a pent up level of frustration in the community about high line rental fees. 40,000 of iiNet's 200,000 own-DSLAM customers have taken a Naked DSL service.

iiNet says it now has DSLAMS operational in more than 307 exchanges across the country and has "dozens more under construction or due for expansion".

Just three days before the government's deadline for tenders for the national fibre network, iiNet argues it has already built a national network providing 90% of metropolitan Australians with access to broadband "faster than proposed under the Federal Government’s National Broadband Network."

Source - APCmag.com

[Marauder]

Posted my first news article and I broke the site? lol

[Blofelds Cat]

As much as I'd like it if the channels mentioned in the image would be among the offered programming, iiNet has likely 'lifted' the slide from another source and 'adapted' it via an 'IINET' logo.

Can't see the BBC and ITV allowing its latest content to be accessable by Australian audiences, especially as it currently restricts access to its online content to UK residents only.

[bLackjack]

Originally Posted by Blofelds Cat

As much as I'd like it if the channels mentioned in the image would be among the offered programming, iiNet has likely 'lifted' the slide from another source and 'adapted' it via an 'IINET' logo.

Can't see the BBC and ITV allowing its latest content to be accessable by Australian audiences, especially as it currently restricts access to its online content to UK residents only.

Do you think,...lol, I somehow don't think Moto GP, will ever make it to Comedy Central

[Blofelds Cat]

Originally Posted by bLackjack

Do you think,...lol, I somehow don't think Moto GP, will ever make it to Comedy Central

Are we referencing the same image?

I see MotoGP as being on BBC2 London & Eurosport. I can't see any refrence to Comedy Central.

[bLackjack]

Originally Posted by Blofelds Cat

Are we referencing the same image?

I see MotoGP as being on BBC2 London & Eurosport. I can't see any refrence to Comedy Central.

Channel 49 - EUROSPORT, but Comedy Central logo

[Blofelds Cat]

Originally Posted by bLackjack

Channel 49 - EUROSPORT, but Comedy Central logo

Aha! My 1680 x 1050 monitor renders the Channel 49 logo totally unrecognisable.

[Marauder]

Hope they slam my exchange sometime soon! Only Telstra Wholesale crap Adsl2+ dslam atm. On iinet Home7 8mbit TW plan though which is alright.

Can't watch iinet's 1.2mbit Nasa TV though. Just rebuffers. No problem with bandwidth or backhaul congestion, and I can watch even higher bitrate streams elsewhere on net. Those on an iinet dslam have no trouble. A bit weird.

I'm in the Northern Suburbs of Brisbane and they have yet to expand their DSLAM coverage outside metro areas, but I would imagine their later rollout lists will cater eventually.
Hoping anyway!
I look forward to the iiPVR and content.