Telstra to launch T-Box

In an effort to protect revenue and encourage customer loyalty

Telstra has announced its plan to release its new digital set top box, T-Box, later this month.

The T-Box is a personal video recorder (PVR) with a 320GB internal hard drive and two high-definition digital television tuners. It will allow users to access free-to-air TV channels, internet TV channels, TV shows and the option of seven BigPond channels, a library of on-demand videos plus video clips on YouTube - when connected to the Internet via Telstra's BigPond service.

T-Box, retailing at $299, will also offer control free-to-air TV, with pause, rewind and fast-forward capabilities and be able to record programs up to seven days in advance.

The launch follows the release of the T-Hub device back in April and marks an increased focus by the telco to address falling fixed line revenues through new IP-based services.

As reported by Computerworld Australia maintaining fixed line revenues have been a major challenge for Telstra. In February the company flagged that revenue from PSTN services had declined $222 million year on year during the last half.

See a review of the Telstra T-Box by PCWorld

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1

tBosx

Wed 02/06/2010 - 23:34

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zPL-v1oexqA
looks like there is already a TBOX being sold

2

jarrod

Thu 03/06/2010 - 01:23

what is the point of all these devices with internet tv capabilities when we still live in a country that has data limits, it practically pointless until we catch up with the rest of the world

3

AlanG

Thu 03/06/2010 - 06:54

I agree. Video feed over the internet eats up data allowance like it is going out of style and large data allowance plans are usually out of the price range of the average user. So I can't see any device that relies on video feed for its revenue being taken up in large numbers until large data allowance limits become affordable and within reach of the pocket of the average user.

4

Lionel

Thu 03/06/2010 - 08:05

jarrod and AlanG,

The IP TV provided through Bigpond by the T-Box does not count towards your data allowance.

5

D Newman

Thu 03/06/2010 - 14:21

I know of 2 other ISp,s offhand (not counting Telstra) about to start IP tv and all clearly state it does NOT count towards your usage.....In fact that info is on the front page of both ISP,s home pages

6

Andy

Mon 05/07/2010 - 10:53

With regard to the T-Box IP streaming channels you will see that Telstra offers all the IP streaming channels (excluding YouTube), BigPond Videos on demand area and downloaded Movies area "unmetered" i.e. they do not count towards your download limit, see here for more info:
http://www.telstra.com.au/tbox/entertainment.html

7

PP

Sat 21/08/2010 - 22:17

This is a very buggy PVR. It will lockup in the middle of a show. Fail to start in the morning if turned off overnight. It has a system of pairing the remote. The box will lose its pairing regularly and fail to respond to the remote. Also if you fast forward a recorded program it will not respond to the remote when you want to play during the fast forward. It will crash the box when transferring recorded files to the USB. I have no idea how TELSTRA did not pick up these problems before buying this PVR and on selling to its bigpond customers. It is abox you don't want in your house even if it was given free. If you want to want a program if the box has been off for a while then there is no guarantee that you will actually watch all of the show as most of your time will be spent rebooting and repairing the remote to the box. I'd rate this as 0.1/10.

8

chris

Thu 25/11/2010 - 19:05

does anyone know how to play t-box recordings on your computer after you have put it on a usb stick?

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kim fowler

Sun 17/04/2011 - 22:20

why does my t box not reconise a second usb i dont understand why it will not work the first one is a usb with 500 g i filled it up so quick i bought a 1.5 g and i cant get it to work

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