Tag: streaming
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Sportsball streaming nightmare, Nintendo reveals OLED Switch: Vertical Hold Ep 336
How can you make sense of Australia's streaming sports rights hellscape? Where can you watch the Olympics? Why didn't Nintendo bless the new Switch with a 4K screen? Special guests TV Blackbox viewer advocate Steve Molk (@SteveMolk) and Byteside editor Seamus Byrne (@Seamus)
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Mini-LED TVs make a splash, New Apple TV 4K battles streaming sticks: Vertical Hold Ep 330
Will the new generation of mini-LED TVs make a dent in OLED's value equation? Does Apple's "new" Apple TV 4K stack up well against the much cheaper options from Google or Amazon? Special Guest Leigh Stark (@leighlo)
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Netflix cracks down on account sharing; Apple, Google, Sonos in smart speaker smackdown: Vertical Hold Ep 320
Will Netflix's crack down on account sharing cost it customers? Is it worth getting excited about the 2nd gen Google Nest or Sonos Roam as the OG Apple HomePod rides off into the sunset? Guest News Corp tech editor/Hard Quiz champ Jennifer Dudley Nicholson (@jendudley) - Vertical Hold is brought to you by Aussie Broadband – changing the game with their award-winning network and Australian based support.
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NBN halts HFC connections, Kayo scores more Aussie sport: Vertical Hold Ep 314
Why have NBN's HFC cable connections ground to a halt? Why is Telstra ditching free live sports in favour of Kayo? Guest ZDNet Australia editor Chris Duckett (@dobes) - Vertical Hold is brought to you by Aussie Broadband – changing the game with their award-winning network and Australian based support.
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Google threatens to leave Australia, What will Paramount+ and Disney Star bring to streaming: Vertical Hold Ep 313
What would an Australian Internet look like without Google? As CBS pivots in the streaming wars, will Paramount+ be enough to see off Netflix or Disney's incoming Star streaming service? Special guests TV Blackbox's Steve Molk (@stevemolk) and ZDNet's Asha Barbaschow (@ashabeeeee) Vertical Hold is brought to you by Aussie Broadband – changing the game with their award-winning network and Australian based support.
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Who wants Twitter Fleets, does BritBox deliver the best of British: Vertical Hold ep 306
Twitter's pushing out "Fleets" and promising a return to blue tick verification, but is that what Twitter users want? Will Aussies get good value out of UK-centric streaming service BritBox? Guests @Byteside tech writer Chris Button @BibbyBhoy and @TheAge/@SMH television critic Craig Mathieson @CMscreens - Vertical Hold is brought to you by Aussie Broadband.
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What happens if the DOJ splits up Google, Chromecast with Google TV vs Fire TV Lite: Vertical Hold Episode 301
How (and why) would the US DOJ actually split up Google, and what would that look like? In the battle of the cheap streaming dongles, should you buy Google's Chromecast or Amazon's Fire Stick Lite? Special guests Finder Editor in Chief Angus Kidman (@gusworldau). Vertical Hold is brought to you by Aussie Broadband.
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Streaming special: CBS Aussie plans, Shudder launches, Quibi goes free and more: Vertical Hold ep 291
CBS has big plans for Australia, so why is it dragging its heels on bringing us the new Star Trek? Why are Aussies getting Quibi for free? Why is Netflix showing a broadway play nobody's seen yet? Will Shudder give the streaming world a scare? What's happening to the new Bill & Ted movie down under (and can we borrow their time machine?) All this and more in our streaming state of play special with special guest @TV_Blackbox viewer advocate Steve Molk!
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