High definition video is the next big thing for Australia. We explain the essential technologies for your TV or living room PC, and what to expect from our broadcasters.

Electronic Frontier Foundation rallies the troops.

In conjunction with several of their other top-of-the-line software application upgrades, discreet have released the long-awaited combustion 3. Unique in some of its features and price point, combustion seems to have been searching for its market-place slot. Sharing the code, tools and quality of its bigger siblings, flame, inferno and smoke, combustion has, in the last two years, pulled its price down from 10 thousand dollars to around two thousand.

Nicecast is the easiest way to broadcast music from OS X. Broadcast to the world, or just across you...

Brad Greenspan's LiveVideo.com joins the party.

Streaming is the process of taking large files, breaking them into smaller pieces and sending them to their destination where they are recompiled as they arrive, providing an audio, video or animated broadcast over the net.

Telstra has had the role of providing the network infrastructure that is coping with both the Australian end of the site traffic and providing 155Mb capacity fibre optic links between the IBM LANs at

The Internet is booming again, but this time it’s very different. PC Authority brings you up to speed with the global Web 2.0 phenomenon.

Broadcast networks extend digital TV to mobile phones and VoIP prepares to hit mobile handsets.

IBM to showcase 3Mbps encoding system.

Breakthrough display technology to showcase at CES.

Internet radio sensation Pandora has been forced to stop broadcasting music outside of the US, but their problems don’t end there. PC Authority spoke to Pandora founder Tim Westergren about the industry and its legal minefields.

The Internet, and to a degree wireless networking developments, are an attractive source of inspiration for NASA engineers. After all, with budget constraints on everyones minds, if lessons can be lea

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A month's worth of HD news in digest form.

The tools for home movie-making have become far more accessible and functionally more versatile. While truly broadcast-quality images are still the domain of 'prosumer' and professional video cameras

A nice little camera that uses a 0.8-megapixel CCD compared to the 1.3-megapixel of the MVX2i. As a result, it does not offer the same near-broadcast image quality. Having said that, there is little wrong with the images it produces. The MV5i has eight shooting modes; records still images; and comes with a comprehensive range of software.

Do as we say, not do as we do.

Digital radio in Australia is a slow burner. While many people are investing in digital set-top boxes and digital displays for the purpose of watching digital TV, not too many people are jumping on the digital radio bandwagon.