Comments on: Playing Fetch

By: Matthew Taber

Matthew Taber — Mon, 06 May 2013 08:55:00 +0000

yeah thats why tivo folded they are no longer here in Aust

By: poedgirl

poedgirl — Wed, 26 Dec 2012 02:09:00 +0000

Garbage

By: poedgirl

poedgirl — Fri, 26 Aug 2011 02:37:00 +0000

Personally, I can’t really recommend any service for reliable IPTV in Australia. As I said in the article, the service for Fetch is great, however, the box seriously lets it down. If we had a better designed box with software that actually worked, it would be great.

That said, the main problem still is the lack of content. This is mainly because Foxtel hordes most of the channels. I just wish we could get a system like the US where any TV operator could come along and purchase channels they want to offer their customers, instead of being limited to just a small handful like Fetch has.

As for set top boxes, I would have to recommend the Boxee Box. While most of the content for it is US based, it does still have a lot of options for Australians. The Revision3 app on it is excellent. Pair it with a VPN as well and you’ll get all of the US content too.

By: Jesse Somer

Jesse Somer — Fri, 26 Aug 2011 01:39:00 +0000

Your experience sounds horrible. If you don’t recommend FetchTV or Foxtel via XBox 360, what do you see as the best Internet TV option? I have a friend who won’t shut up about how great TiVO is, and a number of our customers use AppleTV. Of course the majority of people still use Foxtel through a coaxial cable connection, but it is quite expensive for a full subscription. Which direction should the average person take if they don’t want to spend a lot of money, but they want a good Internet TV experience?

Jesse, Compare Broadband

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 17 Aug 2011 04:01:00 +0000

Unfortunately none of those new features address the problems I have had. While they do add a little more value to the service, it’s really not enough.

By: Simon Hunter-Ward

Simon Hunter-Ward — Wed, 17 Aug 2011 03:48:00 +0000

Just read this on Lifehacker and couldn’t resist sharing… Could any of these change your mind? LOL

The Next 12 Things FetchTV Is Adding
http://www.lifehacker.com.au/2011/08/the-next-12-things-fetchtv-is-adding/

By: Simon Hunter-Ward

Simon Hunter-Ward — Wed, 17 Aug 2011 00:54:00 +0000

Make certain that you end your subscription prior to the 3 month trial end date, so as to avoid the automated renewal of the service as a paid subscription. I read about this on another review of the FetchTV trial… the same trick that alot of service providers (yes Foxtel, I’m looking at you) use to snare customers.
It can be a real pain in the arse to get a provider to refund the subscription when you finally realise that you have been netted.
I’m also with iiNet and have always had great service from them. However, when an issue comes down to a technical problem where there isn’t a clean-cut solution for it, their staff tend to throw up the “There is nothing I can do / must be something wrong with your setup” card. The best thing to do is to just ask them to escalate the issue to their supervisor (which I am sure that you have done yourself, by the sounds of it).
IPTV is still very immature here in Australia, and there really isn’t that much of an advantage to having it. You are paying a premium to just double the number of TV channels, that show the same standard of crap, and which are broadcast at times that are still inconvenient to watch!
No, I don’t think that PVRs are a worthwhile solution, as it is once again making the consumer pay for the networks desire to not redesign their archaic business model into something that has a real customer focus. Why do you think that so many people are now turning to Channel BT?