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SBS On Demand (beta)

SBS is beta-testing a revamp of its online catch-up site, now known as SBS On Demand.

SBS is beta-testing a revamp of its online catch-up site, now known as SBS On Demand offering full episodes, clips and live streams of favourite SBS programs.

All the videos are offered as high resolution on-demand streams working best with high-speed broadband.

Those who subscribe will get email notifications when new videos appear on their playlist or when  videos are about to expire.

You can check it out here.

16 Responses

  1. The new player is crap – there’s no play button and it defies me how you actually get to play any of the programmes ?
    I’ve tried loading choices into ‘My Videos’, but that doesn’t work.
    And there’s no scroll bars on the side to access whatever has dissapeared below my screen and down under my windows toolbar somewhere and the mouse scroll wheel doesn’t get me down the pages either.
    Windows XP and yes, I am on the latest Flash player.
    So long as they have this sorted before the next Anna Pihl series comes along …

  2. My first ever post here on this site ever.

    In May 2012, the next 3 year funding agreement for both ABC and SBS will be decided by the federal government and announced in the federal budget. The period will be for the years 2012-2014. SBS has a very poor record in getting extra money from Canberra but the ABC has a great record in getting the same said money.

    In the 2012-2014 funding submission, the ABC wants to greatly expand iView to include just about every program the ABC has ever broadcast on TV since 1956. and with the NBN, they will have the means to do it. This will be a valuable service for people in rural and regional Australia.

    We don’t know what SBS wants for its 2012-2014 funding package yet. But I suspect that in some way Cadel Evans will play a part in it . SBS may still try to get that elusive multicultural children’s channel up in the 2012-2014 funding package.

    The idea of the multicultural children’s channel is to show non original English language children’s programs in their original host language and put up English subtitles. Currently all non English language children’s programs are dubbed into Engilsh before being shown here.

    A famous example is ” Winx Club” . Originally in Italian as it is a RAI made program in tandem with Rainbow s.r.l and co-produced by Nickelodeon. There are 3 English dubs for this program, with the RAI English dub the most accepted in the English speaking world.

  3. Loving the revamp! Also, it’s great they’ve got a name now, SBS On Demand. But the best thing about it is now they’ve got some full length feature films added. No other Australian network is doing that & for me, it almost creams iView.

    They way they’ve designed it reminds me of Plus7… But with better programs.

  4. I think advertising on there is unfortunate but is probably inevitable given that SBS is left to run on the smell of an oily rag from the government. They have to resort to advertising to pay the bills.

  5. Yep, much improved.

    @Danny Wu – not sure whether “[not] paying” is a satirical turn of phrase but ads are part of the deal if you want to watch SBS – same as with the commercial stations.

    Being quota-free was a big deal a few years ago but monthly limits are so much greater now (unless you’re on a dinosaur plan). I’m on the lowest Naked DSL plan with my ISP – I get 100GB every month and have never even nearly used all of it. I guess it might be different if you source a lot of content via “alternative means”.

  6. Now we just need Ten to wake up and introduce a proper catch up service like everyone else, i.e. one that doesn’t cut up each episode into five pieces.

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