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NICE! only just saw this on the 'ol Forum Spy.

now kiddies in Aussieland have something decent to put on their brand spanking new iPod without the know-how of which video format to use and at what resolution.

having decent videos on iTunes just adds to the user experience and the "it just works" motto which is always good.

obviously Movies are on the list next… but when?
 
om-gosh
I Am So F@#!en Happy
I Have Been Burning Desperate Housewives Dvd's For Like Ages To Put On My Ipod (poor Hq)

Now
They Finally Add Desperate Housewives Too Itunes :D:D:D:D:D:D:D
And On Top Of That
They Released Season 4 (which Just Finished On Tv Last Week) Of Desperate Housewives On The Itunes Store Before Its Dvd Release

This Has Made My Week :D:D:D:D:D:D:D
 
It costs more than what they are asking.

For Aussies, ISP plans are capped. A 30 min show is about 300MB. My ISP is Telstra (as the only ADSL2 provider in my area) and I get 25GB for $100/month. Therefore my 300MB download costs $1.20 in download fees alone, or an extra 40% over the $2.99 ask.

What size will movies be? what size will HD movies be? At 4$ /GB I wont be getting any. I believe in data caps, as access to the internet is a finite resource. But $4/GB is too much. The Aussie ISP's know that we are going to need/want much greater data limits to access this new way of acquiring video entertainment. I believe it should be around $1/GB today and only get cheaper as each year passes. Otherwise it will become bracket creep like we have in our income tax rates.

Or, I'll want my ISP to filter out advertising and spam, which consumes data that I didn't ask for or want. Every page you browse on the net is full of graphics and flash stuff that we pay for, yes we do. Because we pay $$'s for that data. I'm annoyed that this hidden cost isn't more transparent to Aussie consumers. There are moves in the US to cap (ie count) your data. Beware of what that means.

BTW, there are many Aussies on low cap plans ie 200MB, 600MB or 2GB / month. At their rates, if they are not careful, will be charged 15c/MB on any excess to their caps. It happens every day. That TV show the 15yo daughter downloads for $2.99 ends up costing 300 x 15c = $45.

Our dominant ISP of course does not charge (but still counts) for bandwidth usage when downloading from their own Music and Movies site. This will give them an unfair market advantage, which they have been exploiting, unchallenged. Oh of course all of Telstra (BigPond) services are Windows only, so your Mac is a 2nd class customer, so you can't even utilize the uncapped data they provide, aside from the occasional Leo Laporte podcast that is 3 weeks old.

I shudder to think what Telstra's data plans are going to be like if they reach agreement with Apple to sell the iPhone, but that's another story about to unfold.
BSR
 
For Aussies, ISP plans are capped. A 30 min show is about 300MB. My ISP is Telstra (as the only ADSL2 provider in my area) and I get 25GB for $100/month. Therefore my 300MB download costs $1.20 in download fees alone, or an extra 40% over the $2.99 ask.
You're counting downloads with 25GB per month? Relax man! But you're right: Telstra are asses.
 
For Aussies, ISP plans are capped. A 30 min show is about 300MB. My ISP is Telstra (as the only ADSL2 provider in my area) and I get 25GB for $100/month. Therefore my 300MB download costs $1.20 in download fees alone, or an extra 40% over the $2.99 ask.

What size will movies be? what size will HD movies be? At 4$ /GB I wont be getting any. I believe in data caps, as access to the internet is a finite resource. But $4/GB is too much. The Aussie ISP's know that we are going to need/want much greater data limits to access this new way of acquiring video entertainment. I believe it should be around $1/GB today and only get cheaper as each year passes. Otherwise it will become bracket creep like we have in our income tax rates.

Or, I'll want my ISP to filter out advertising and spam, which consumes data that I didn't ask for or want. Every page you browse on the net is full of graphics and flash stuff that we pay for, yes we do. Because we pay $$'s for that data. I'm annoyed that this hidden cost isn't more transparent to Aussie consumers. There are moves in the US to cap (ie count) your data. Beware of what that means.

BTW, there are many Aussies on low cap plans ie 200MB, 600MB or 2GB / month. At their rates, if they are not careful, will be charged 15c/MB on any excess to their caps. It happens every day. That TV show the 15yo daughter downloads for $2.99 ends up costing 300 x 15c = $45.

Our dominant ISP of course does not charge (but still counts) for bandwidth usage when downloading from their own Music and Movies site. This will give them an unfair market advantage, which they have been exploiting, unchallenged. Oh of course all of Telstra (BigPond) services are Windows only, so your Mac is a 2nd class customer, so you can't even utilize the uncapped data they provide, aside from the occasional Leo Laporte podcast that is 3 weeks old.

I shudder to think what Telstra's data plans are going to be like if they reach agreement with Apple to sell the iPhone, but that's another story about to unfold.
BSR

What do you expect if you're with Tel$tra? They've been ripping off Australia for ages. Like this bogus Next G network, which runs on a completely different frequency to any other network in the world (which incidentally, is part of the reason why they don't have the iPhone). Have a peek at a competing ISP and you'll see how much you're getting overcharged. My ISP doesn't offer anything lower than 10GB p/m.
 
Like this bogus Next G network, which runs on a completely different frequency to any other network in the world (which incidentally, is part of the reason why they don't have the iPhone).

actually, it's a 3G umts network. I do agree that they are crap for anything other than business phone stuff. Dad wont switch from bigpond and he's paying $69/m for 12gb on 1.5mb/s (that's megabits, not bytes). I keep telling him to swap, but he wants to keep the email addy
 
What do you expect if you're with Tel$tra? They've been ripping off Australia for ages. Like this bogus Next G network, which runs on a completely different frequency to any other network in the world (which incidentally, is part of the reason why they don't have the iPhone).

Actually, Telstra's NextG frequency works with the iPhone. In fact, it is Optus and Vodafone (the two networks that got the iPhone in Australia) that are the ones with a 3G network which doesn't work with the iPhone (except in metropolitan areas) as they use a frequency the iPhone can't use.

So, as much as I dislike Telstra, if they had the iPhone they'd probably have the best iPhone network there was with the best 3G coverage. My bet is they'd charge a fortune for it of course.
 
Back on topic, wow, what a crap load of TV programmes. About the only thing that might have been of interest was Scrubs, and it is only Season 6 (from 2006-2007)!

I'm not sure which is worse - starving, or being fed scraps...
 
It would be awesome if Apple and Telstra teamed up to deliver unmetered downloads (but very unikely…).
Their stuff isn't even Mac compatible. :(

I can't see how it would be practical to download movies from iTunes for us Aussies, our family some how manage to use 12 Gig a month on browsing alone…
 
For Aussies, ISP plans are capped. A 30 min show is about 300MB. My ISP is Telstra (as the only ADSL2 provider in my area) and I get 25GB for $100/month. Therefore my 300MB download costs $1.20 in download fees alone, or an extra 40% over the $2.99 ask.....

BSR

iinet officially do not count downloads from itunes (it is included in iinet freetime). In practice, iinet actually do not count any downloads that you make from apple.com. Generous buggers.
 
What do you expect if you're with Tel$tra? They've been ripping off Australia for ages. Like this bogus Next G network, which runs on a completely different frequency to any other network in the world (which incidentally, is part of the reason why they don't have the iPhone). Have a peek at a competing ISP and you'll see how much you're getting overcharged. My ISP doesn't offer anything lower than 10GB p/m.

ive been telling dad to change to TPG or something else.. but he wont. im so over tel$tra.. they are bogus. for 50gb, ADSL2+ with no uploads counted i could find it for $50p/m..

For Aussies, ISP plans are capped. A 30 min show is about 300MB. My ISP is Telstra (as the only ADSL2 provider in my area) and I get 25GB for $100/month. Therefore my 300MB download costs $1.20 in download fees alone, or an extra 40% over the $2.99 ask.

.......
BSR

we all know that telstra cannot be described in words. if there was a feeling worse than hatred, i would be using it every single day of my life to describe them believe me. i wont be buying those movies especially when they are available for free.

Unless you download unmetered from Bigpond movies instead :p
It would be awesome if Apple and Telstra teamed up to deliver unmetered downloads (you can always hope :rolleyes:), otherwise I can't see how it would be practical, we some how manage to use 12 Gig a month on browsing alone…

then you have to pay dont you??

apple + telstra = NEVER.... they both want profits, teaming up just wont work.
 
iinet officially do not count downloads from itunes (it is included in iinet freetime). In practice, iinet actually do not count any downloads that you make from apple.com. Generous buggers.
Thanks for this post entopys :). I was just mourning that I couldn't afford the downloads but you've reminded me that my folks have iinet with their free iTunes downloads. My mother will see so much more of me :D!



(edit: unless they change their TOS to save bandwidth now).
 
Thanks for this post entopys :). I was just mourning that I couldn't afford the downloads but you've reminded me that my folks have iinet with their free iTunes downloads. My mother will see so much more of me :D!

(edit: unless they change their TOS to save bandwidth now).

hahaha she will love you (and hate you) for that :p
 
I've got to actually pay to watch summer heights high now? Last year it was offered free as a video podcast via iTunes! (or a vodcast as ABC Australia calls it)

Anyway, it's good to see some legal alternatives for watching TV shows in Australia.
 
I've got to actually pay to watch summer heights high now? Last year it was offered free as a video podcast via iTunes! (or a vodcast as ABC Australia calls it)
It wasn't vodcast in HD. That's what you're buying now. Just like if you were to buy the DVDs. If you're satisfied with the vodcast at 320x180 stick with that.
 
I've got to actually pay to watch summer heights high now? Last year it was offered free as a video podcast via iTunes! (or a vodcast as ABC Australia calls it)

Anyway, it's good to see some legal alternatives for watching TV shows in Australia.

its on ABC, just tape it yourself... its pretty silly how they want you to pay for FREE TO AIR stuff.... ripped.
 
What do you expect if you're with Tel$tra? They've been ripping off Australia for ages. Like this bogus Next G network, which runs on a completely different frequency to any other network in the world (which incidentally, is part of the reason why they don't have the iPhone). Have a peek at a competing ISP and you'll see how much you're getting overcharged. My ISP doesn't offer anything lower than 10GB p/m.

The iPhone fully supports the NextG network, Telstra have already signed the deal, their name is in the iPhone software already and they will be announcing soon.

850MHz 3G networks are used by Telstra and AT&T.

Telstra suck at reasonable pricing and will fleece you for every cent they can.

Facts are great.
 
BTW, there are many Aussies on low cap plans ie 200MB, 600MB or 2GB / month. At their rates, if they are not careful, will be charged 15c/MB on any excess to their caps. It happens every day. That TV show the 15yo daughter downloads for $2.99 ends up costing 300 x 15c = $45.


I shudder to think what Telstra's data plans are going to be like if they reach agreement with Apple to sell the iPhone, but that's another story about to unfold.
BSR

Shop around.
iiNet will give you a better base deal and they don't include iTunes store traffic in your downloads if you have it set up right. Sure their DNS isn't great but then again DNS lets most ISP's down from what I've found.

I'm sure others have deals that suit the Mac user better.
Sorry to plug, but not happy change. That is your power as a consummer.
 
What do you expect if you're with Tel$tra? They've been ripping off Australia for ages. Like this bogus Next G network, which runs on a completely different frequency to any other network in the world (which incidentally, is part of the reason why they don't have the iPhone).p/m.

Actually, AT&T are installing 850MHz 3G networks across the US. So the home market for the device is the same as us.

And the reason Telstra haven't announced the iPhone yet is because they want Apple to let them pre-install their crap whereis and sensis and music programs on the handset.

Apple have rightly told them to jam it. Telstra will announce their iPhone plans this week, tail firmly between legs
 
am I missing something?
why would you pay real dollars to download and watch TV repeats?
too much time, too much money, or both.
sorry, I just don't get it.
 
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