There has been growing discussion about 3D television in Australia during recent weeks. The Nine Network promoting that they will be the first broadcaster to trial the technology in Australia. Some Australians maybe unaware that Special Broadcasting Service (SBS) has also been authorised by the Australian Communication and Media Authority (ACMA) to trail 3D broadcasting. [...]
Recently the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) announced a further development for their iView on-demand internet based video service and Sony. The new internet enabled Sony Bravia televisions and Blu-ray players will allow access to ABC’s iView. The partnership between the two institutions began last year with the introduction of access to iView through Sony’s PlayStation [...]
Recently the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) announced a partnership with Sony, to allow PS3 owners access to their on-demand internet based video service, iView. This partnership will aid in the progression of online video content be viewed on a television rather than solely being viewed upon a computer screen. Kim Dalton, ABC’s Director of Television [...]
An article published on The Age website speaks of the increase in Australians use of illegal Bittorrent sites. Australians usage ‘grew from 785,000 in April last year to 1,049,000 in April this year, Nielsen says. This is a year-on-year increase of 33.6 per cent.’?As seen previously, ‘industry research has shown that Australians are per capita one of the world’s biggest users’. Legal download sites e.g. the iTunes and Bigpond stores, ‘are not yet making up for the drop in physical disc sales’.
Many people within the media field may have heard of the term transmedia storytelling, but what is transmedia broadcasting? To define transmedia broadcasting we must first explain the fundamentals of transmedia storytelling. Henry Jenkins, a key media theorist in the area of convergence, was the first to discuss this new method of storytelling. Jenkins describes [...]
Marc C-Scott studied at Swinburne’s National School of Design, where he completed a Bachelor Degree of Design (Multimedia Design) with Honours in 2004, and runs his own mulitplatform production company Digital Science. He is currently researching a PhD on transmedia broadcasting in Australia with CQUniversity, and lecturing full-time at SAE Institute's Melbourne campus.