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The Federal Court has ruled that the Optus TV Now service infringes copyright.

Telstra has unveiled ambitious plans to provide everything the consumer of the connected home might need in the way of connectivity, content, services and the devices to make use of these.

The same old TiVo with a bigger hard drive is an insult to loyal Australian TiVo users.

Telstra has made its Foxtel on T-Box service available to its ADSL connected customers in all Foxtel service areas and has hinted at launching an unlimited movie service for a fixed monthly fee in 2012.

Telstra has expanded the availability of Foxtel on T-Box to more customers in Victoria and New South Wales. Also new is a T-Box remote control app for iOS.

Telstra is to expand the IPTV offering of its T-Box device through an exclusive partnership with shopping channel TV Shopping Network (TVSN) and its affiliated television direct marketing medium, Expo Channel.

Although the death of DVD rental stores was predicted long ago and saw bookstores fall and fail in a far more spectacular fashion, Telstra's sale of its BigPond DVD movie rental business may well be the last nail in the DVD's coffin.

Telstra has struck a deal with Twentieth Century Fox that will enable it to provide Twentieth Century Fox film and television titles to Telstra customers via IPTV to the T-Box, smart TVs and BigPond.com.

With Foxtel already Australia's premier pay TV service, available on its own iQ2 boxes and the Xbox 360, Foxtel's 50% owner is set to unveil Foxtel on its own T-Box from Sunday the 27th of June.

Telstra will launch, next Sunday June 26, a range of Foxtel content to users of its T-Box connected to Telstra's cable broadband services, with the same offering to be available over Telstra ADSL a couple of months later, all quota free.

Telstra customers have come out big winners in the new agreement between the AFL and Telstra, with all matches available live to users with a Telstra T-Box, mobile phones or tablet from 2012.

It's not just the Xbox 360 that can turn itself into a Foxtel FoXbox, but now Telstra's T-Box will perform the same trick too, from May, with Telstra now offering Foxtel via Foxtel's own iQHD, via Next G smartphones and via the T-Box too - what else is in Telstra's box of tricks?

Telstra and Foxtel have signed an agreement under which 30 of Foxtel's "best" channels - including FOX8, Discovery, Fox Sports Play, Movie One and Showtime Premiere - will be available on the Telstra T-Box unmetered via either a BigPond ADSL or cable broadband service.

US-based WiFi vendor, Ruckus Wireless - which recently opened an office in Australia - says it is providing Telstra with its 802.11n Smart Wi-Fi system for use with the Telstra T-Box set-top box that combines BigPond TV, movie downloads, HD free-to-air channels and a personal video recorder.

Telstra has revised its combined broadband and telephony offerings to co-incide with the launch of T-Box.

Telstra has added content from  MGM Studios to BigPond TV, just a day before its T-Box set top box goes on sale in Telstra stores.