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Telstra TV to launch October 27

Telstra TV launches to its broadband customers, set to have Netflix, Presto & Stan in one device.

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Telstra TV, which rebadges a Roku device, launches on October 27th to its broadband customers, at a price of $109 (free with Telstra’s L or XL internet bundles).

At launch it will include Netflix, Presto, SBS on Demand, Plus7, 9JumpIn. Other apps include YouTube, Red Bull TV, Awesomeness TV, Wall Street Journal, GoPro, Vimeo, Crunchy Roll, Dropbox and Roku Media Player.

Stan will be available next month, with iview “soon.”

Telstra is hoping to bundle a subscription to all three major streaming services for a price cheaper than if you bought them individually.

“I think they’re really different propositions with vastly different cost bases,” Telstra media and marketing group managing director, Joe Pollard said. “We wanted to have a solution that allowed customers to have great video on a great network.

“[Presto, Stan and Netflix] all have their points of difference … but one of the great things about Telstra TV is we don’t have to decide – we just create a great experience and the consumer decides.”

Content streaming and downloads from Bigpond Movies and Presto will be unmetered on Telstra Home Broadband accounts, and customers who get the Telstra TV before December 25 will receive a AU$15 BigPond Movie voucher, a bonus three months subscription to Presto and a three months subscription to Stan (when it becomes available).

Telstra TV comes with 256MB of onboard storage with USB 2.0 and MicroSD ports for expanding storage, wireless and Ethernet connectivity, an HDMI 1.4 port, and support for 1080p video and Dolby Digital 7.1 sound.

Source: Fairfax, News, CNET

5 Responses

  1. Telstra TV has jumpin but fetch users still don’t have it. The standard comment on fetch’s facebook page is that they are waiting for 9 to do something on their backend before the app can come about when someone asks about it. I guess 9 aren’t interested in having jumpin on fetch. Jumpin is awful but its the only one missing on fetch.

  2. Probably would have been a better idea to include the contents of this inside an upgraded Telstra T-Box with the ability to cherry pick pay tv channels and a HD recorder – then it would have sold like hotcakes and killed off the other competing boxes in peoples living rooms….

  3. I believe I’ll wait until I see how locked down the Telstra firmware is before committing.

    These could end up being as bad a mess as they made of the Netgem when they released the TBox.

    1. I believe $109 is the purchase price of the hardware. They haven’t mentioned a monthly bundled subscription fee yet. At release you’ll pay any subscription fees directly to the VOD provider.

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