Suhit Gupta
08-03-2004, 03:00 PM
<div class='os_post_top_link'><a href='http://www.cnet.com.au/hometheatre/tvs/0,39026023,40000447,00.htm' target='_blank'>http://www.cnet.com.au/hometheatre/tvs/0,39026023,40000447,00.htm</a><br /><br /></div><i>"Australian inventor Peter Vogel (most notably famous for the Fairlight Music Synthesizer) today showed off his latest enterprise in Sydney. Dubbed ICE ("Intelligent Content Engine"), the service will be offered in digital TV set top boxes and PVRs from November this year. The ICE service offers a number of enhanced TV features, including an electronic program guide, parental control functionality built around program ratings classifications and a number of different modes designed to skip or eliminate standard television advertising."</i><br /><br />So this news is for our reader from Australia (hopefully we have several). Unfortunately, you will have to pay a subscription fee or anywhere between AU$2-AU$3 per week to recieve ICE's wireless transmissions which controls all of these features. I guess that there are currently no DVRs being bundled by cable operators with their service, down under. The advertisement elimination feature definitely seems cool though, I wish they offered that here (if they do then I just don't know about it).