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Eddy may control the high jinx on 1 v 100 but the network he controls is about to get a mass of competitors and not from Foxtel either.

Back in January amid the hype of Apple’s iPhone, Mr Jobs announced AppleTV, which is due to land any day now. This device is a little smaller than the smallest of pizza boxes and plugs into your widescreen TV. So what? So this; anything that you download to your computer, Mac and PC, that goes into iTunes will play on your TV. Sick of game show after crime show after reality show. No problem. Flick over to one of the video podcasts you subscribe to (for free) and watch the latest show.

Apple is already gearing up for the arrival the product into stores very soon with
AppleTV Podcast Showcase.

Also, the latest version of iTunes has a change in the preferences of great note. Now you can change the Parental settings to conform to Australian ratings. This has lead many to speculate that availabily of TV shows and movies from the iTunes Music Store is imminent – in the same way that Australia got access to the iTMS many, many months after other countries.

But right now the job I wouldn’t want is marketing director at a large multinational-carbonated-breakfast-cereal-snack-food-automobile-fast-moving-consumer-good manufacturer. Where am I going to place my ads? What shows are my eaters/drinkers/drivers/consumers watching? Fuel Time! TreehuggerTV! Southerby’s Private View! My media buyers haven’t told me about these shows. What networks are they on?

That didn’t take long.

Link: LG flummoxed by digital freeze – Home Theatre – AtHome – Technology – smh.com.au.

If you’ve got a dud product do a recall ASAP. No two ways about it; a mia culpa beats a multi-million dollar pr nightmare that ain’t no campign going to fix.

Memo to LG: Fire Burson-Marsteller for this stuff-up. Because when this shit hits the fan (stories in the broadsheets), you think any journo is going to be taking calls from these twits? I don’t think so.

Link: Smarthouse News – LCD.

This is a screen dump from Smart House News today. I know online ads are served based on criteria but perhaps a new criteria should be: No ads for companies/products that are being kicked in the guts in the article.

I am soooooo glad I don’t have shares in any TV networks.

Link: BBC nets YouTube deal – BizTech – Technology – smh.com.au.

I’m vexed by the potential sale of QANTAS to a consortia lead by MacBank.

My patriotic side believes this is the end of yet another national icon (brand) being sold off for a quick buck.

My wallet however is greatly relieved that if the sale goes through it will be able to buy flights based on price, service and convenience as opposed to national pride.

Check out the inro to this story on smh.com.au. They were too cheap and or lazy to send a photographer to cover the arrival of Cunard’s Queen Mary II maiden voyage arrival in Sydney Harbour. Instead they want the public to send in some pix via email and SMS. We’ll, I’ve got some fantatic pix and the SMH can have them for $10K. In fact, the story isn’t even from a SMH journo – it’s from our old friends at AAP.

Link: QM2 sails into Sydney harbour – National – smh.com.au.

I just watched LIVE pictures of Cunard’s Queen Mary II arriving in Sydney Harbour. Just one problem; I live on Sydney Harbour and the LIVE pictures TCN 9 was putting to air were 10 – 15 minutes old! I wonder how many times they do this?