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Veitch comes full circle… almost

Embattled broadcaster Tony Vietch pleaded guilty today to a charge of ‘reckless disregard causing injury’ and in doing do drew to a close of what he must surely hope will be the end of the long drawn out saga of he said / she said. Or is it? Watching TVNZ’s coverage of the Veitch aftermath tonight [...]

Web TV

It seems main stream media are finally catching on to something many of us have been doing for months. Watching our TV content on the Internet.

Choosing a HDTV and saving $$ by going with 720p

I’ve been spending quite some time now looking at the whole HDTV thing… and man it can do your head in to start with. For starters you need to suss the LCD vs plasma thing out and the guts of this is plasma is better at rendering better motion (left to right) than LCD, and [...]

g33kshow on Alt TV

Not sure if you have watched this show yet but I think it rocks… Find the show on Alt TV Friday nights from 8pm or check out the g33kshow website for more. I’ve included a YouTube clip to give you a taste..

Freeview audio… not good..

Is it just me or has anyone else noticed the poor quality of audio over DVB-T compared to the sounds from DVB-S? The picture over DVB-T may be better – can’t beat free HD but the sound is pretty crap

MySky & Olympics

Got the box installed and it works fine just a pity Sky don’t have the Olympics this time around. TVNZ are doing an OK job but I can’t help but think Sky would do better. There have been a few intermittent problems with our HDi unit, the odd lock up when changing channels which are also [...]

My Sky HDi

The installer comes this week to put in the HDi unit  So does the Olympics… keep an eye on TVNZ’s website for online coverage not only using their extra channel on Freeview but also their two web channels as well. This should lead to some very cool coverage – we’re waiting with baited breath.