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TV Show Reviews: Broadcast and DVD Bluray

Formula 1 (F1) Racing ONEHD TV Channel 10 and Internet Video Stream Coverage

This is an analysis of Network 10 TV (Channel 10 / ONE HD) exclusive Australian live TV coverage of the 2006-2015 Formula One Grand Prix World Championship (Practice & Qualifying sessions, Race Day and highlights packages) on ONE HD, Channel 10 and new for 2011 free Internet Video Stream Coverage through a web browser, iPad, [...]

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Hungry Beast – Youth Oriented Investigative Journalism (ABC TV Review)

Hungry Beast is back on ABC1 TV 23rd March at 930pm. But what is Hungry Beast? That’s much harder to pin down. In the title I called it “Youth Oriented Investigative Journalism” which kind of fits. However other accurate descriptions include: may contain nuts (actually scratch that, it will contain nuts), deadly serious reporting on [...]

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Review: Babylon 5 is My Favourite Scifi Futuristic TV Series

Babylon 5 is my favourite science fiction TV series for many reasons including the continuous 5 season story arc, feeling that it’s like a future UN Security Council in space “our last best hope for peace”, first real use of good visual effects in TV scifi, great theme music and character development of human and [...]

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Evolving IPTV Poses Worldwide Challenge To Incumbent Broadcast TV Networks

Like it or not, thanks to the rapid spread of internet access and constantly evolving consumer electronics the media industry lives in interesting times. This decade is an inflection point where changes in technology and the media are happening with potentially as great an impact as the introduction of broadcast TV and radio last century. [...]

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Damages Season 3 DVD (Review of Legal Drama/Psychological Thriller TV series)

GUEST ARTICLE: Damages season three picks up on the recent global financial crisis with Patty Hewes and new named Partner Tom Shayes pushing the limits of the law and ethics to uncover the hidden fortunes of Ponzi finance tycoon Louis Tobin (Len Cariou), a character modeled on the recent real life Ponzi scheme by Bernie [...]

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Back to the Future 25th Anniversary Trilogy on BluRay (Review)

GUEST ARTICLE: Great Scott!! Switch on your time circuits and get your Delorean Flux Capacitor powered up with 1.21 Gigawatts of electrical power because Universal Pictures is releasing a newly restored 25th anniversary release of the original cult time travel trilogy adventure “Back to the Future” in high definition Blu-Ray. I watched the past, present [...]

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Channel 9 Resurrects Top Gear Australia (Studio Audience Review)

GUEST ARTICLE: Will Channel Nine’s much hyped takeover of Top Gear Australia from its cash strapped SBS cousins capture an audience or send an already ailing show to its TV death? Motoring correspondent Pranav Bhatt attended a Top Gear Australia filming session to find out if the new host Shane ‘Kenny’ Jacobson can resurrect Top [...]

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Voyage To The Planets (ABC TV Review) Exploring Outer Solar System

ABC TV’s new locally produced 6 part documentary series Voyage To The Planets offers the viewer a chance to imagine they have gone on a journey to explore our outer solar system, giving them a guide to what’s needed to be prepared for the trip and living on the planet. Have you ever dreamed of [...]

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Why Football Fans Of The World Game Soccer Are So Passionate

GUEST ARTICLE: Australian interest in “The World Game” is likely to turn hysterical this year as the focus shifts moves from the local A-League to the much anticipated appearance in the FIFA World Cup 2010 South Africa by Australia’s Socceroos. But will that hysteria by Aussie “soccer” fans come anything close to the diehard supporters [...]

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ONE HD and Youtube 2010 IPL 20 Twenty Cricket Indian Premier League Australian Schedule

The 2010 IPL 20/20 Tournament runs from March 12th to the final on April 25th. Network 10 has an exclusive five-year Australian TV deal to broadcast the Indian Premier League (IPL) which consists of eight teams competing in action-packed Twenty20 matches. All IPL matches will be broadcast on Australian TV by Network 10′s ONE HD [...]

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Are Blu-ray Players and Blu-ray Movies Worth Buying?

A Blu-ray Disc (also known as BD or BluRay) is the same physical size and shape as a DVD but can store 5 to 10 times more information (25 to 50 GB data capacity) than a DVD which allows Blu-ray disks to store whole movies or several TV episodes in full 1080P high definition video, [...]

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The Wire – Best TV Series Ever? (HBO/DVD Review)

GUEST ARTICLE: From the home of TV excellence; HBO, comes The Wire, a show that leaves no character; no matter how small, by the wayside. Cops and robbers, you thought those great shows like Hill street blues were done and dusted didn’t you? You were thinking all we get nowadays is ‘cop only’ shows like [...]

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At The Movies With Margaret Pomeranz and David Stratton (ABC TV Review)

GUEST ARTICLE: Margaret Pomeranz and David Stratton are to movie reviews what Vegemite is to sandwich spreads: an Australian icon. But unlike Vegemite, Margaret and David are still loved after they changed the name of their TV show to “At The Movies” when they switched from SBS TV to ABC TV a few years ago. [...]

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Samurai Jack cult animation classic tv show (DVD Review)

Samurai Jack is a little known animated series which was broadcast on cable TV’s Cartoon Network from 2001-2004 and has gained fans since then as a cult classic. The series was noted for its highly detailed, outline-free, masking-based animation, use of splitscreens as well as for its cinematic style and pacing. Jack (as he becomes [...]

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Digital TV in Australia: Benefits, Channels, Freeview and Availability

GUEST ARTICLE: Many people are unaware of the visual and audio benefits Digital TV offers compared to analog TV, the extra digital only channels available like ABC2 and that analog TV will be slowly phased out in Australia by 2013. Digital TV has been available in Australia for many years, since January 2001 in major [...]

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