The High Court of Australia has today ruled in favour of IceTV in what has been an epic three year legal battle with the Nine Network.
Six months after the appeal was heard by the High Court and 3 years since the case originally began the High Court has today in Canberra, allowed IceTV’s appeal from the decision of the Full Court of the Federal Court. A comment as to the High Court findings will follow shortly.
In an official statement made immediately following today’s judgment, IceTV’s Chairmanand major investor, Mr. Colin O’Brien said the following;
“I would like to thank all our shareholders, our staff, our customers and our business partners. Without their support during the last three years IceTV would not have survived. IceTV now looks forward to a successful future bringing both Free-To-Air TV and content via various partners to viewers in a way that satisfies viewer demand, whilst embracing the future of digital Free-To-Air television in Australia.”
Since it’s incorporation in 2005 IceTV has had one aim: To give TV viewers the freedom to record and manage their TV shows as they choose. To record what they want, skip what they want and watch it at a time that suits them. No longer do viewers have to watch their chosen shows when the Networks tell them or to watch content they would rather skip through. IceTV gives them this choice.
This win today is also a win for our many subscribers who enjoy the benefits of simpler, smarter TV viewing.
IceTV’s General Manager, Mr. Matt Kossatz made the following comment after the High Court’s decision;
“Today’s decision is the news that we (IceTV), our staff and our loyal users have waited 3 long years and worked very hard for. With everything happening with digital television in Australia at the moment, the timing is ripe and almost worth the wait. We are seeing more and more content coming to both free-to-air TV and via the web and as an independent company (not a TV Network), we will always have the ability to put the interest’s of the consumer first in terms of features we offer”.
New specs and details were released recently but more has come to light with machines starting to ship. Apples new Mac-Pro is based on the Nahalem Intel chip set that has more connectors also know in the PC world as Core i7. The new case as seen in the video is nice for the one and only time anyone is ever going to go inside the box but as Engadget says in their review “not particularly affordable”. So what are you paying for it’s not the processor as you can find an Intel Core i7 920 Nehalem 2.66Ghz Quad Core processor for $US293 and it comes with a three year warranty. Maybe it’s all the copper in the heat sinks or the environmentally sound box that makes into a tank or at least as heavy as one, but recyclable. Also know as a cheese grater, that will out last you and the planet maybe it’s all the jet fuel used to fly these beast from China. Most long term Apple commercial buyers like designers that have not already moved over to using an iMac instead of a Mac Tower Pro (should bring back acronym G5) may now do so, as the exchange rate puts this puppy Apple G7 further from reality. Apple retail Price $4499 our price around around $4150** plus configure, QA, transfer and install. **Prices subject to change please contact us for an updated quote.
From any view, the new iMac is impressive with faster graphics, ram and more upgradable than before. But little compares to sitting in front of the glossy widescreen display framed in amazingly slim anodised aluminium. iMac instantly turns your workspace from a cluttered desktop into a brilliant display podium. For young people moving into thier first appartment don’t bother buying a TV, DVD player or video recorder because for as little as an additional $150 you can get your iMac to do this too HERE.
Looks good and responds fast to surfer clicks. The shotcuts such as Apple-T are still there, so the surfer experience is familiar… with a few graphical differences such as the tabs are now in the header of the page – thereby saving a whole line of screen real-estate.
The Top Sites is a great first graphical list of the most popular sites in your history (no page-load) and the search feature is cool how it goes into “Cover Flow” mode.
Safari 4 beta doesn’t handle DHTML to well yet. WordPress 2.7.1 locked up the page when trying to add a url using DHTML…. so maybe it’s not time to upgrade yet.