Want to watch what you want, when you want it? Check out Foxtel download. If you’re a Foxtel subscriber you can access a selection of the content available to you in your current package, online. It’s the free and legal way to download Foxtel programming straight to your personal computer. Simply log on to … and get that little bit more out of your Foxtel.
It would seem that Foxtel’s new offering (which you pay at least an additional $4 per month for) is only available to Microsoft Windows users. And even then, it’s a slim subset of those users who will be able to install it. With their choice of .NET and Microsoft Silverlight as the back end, and written to only work within a 32 bit environment I am not sure why Foxtel would bother advertising this service so aggressivly.
What I find particularly annoying is the automatic increase to my account, yet – I can not (and possibly will never be able to) access the service. I am not alone here, the mac install base is estimated at somewhere between 8 and 25 percent of home users. Even without adding Mac to the mix, a major portion of people who would actually be interested in this service will have 64bit machines.
Given a sample of Foxtel’s recent advertising for their new platform, 50% of their advertising is showcasing the Foxtel Download service. With that in mind, I will be expecting 50% of the increase credited back to me each month until such time as I can access the service, I would suggest if you are in the same boat – you should contact Foxtel and ask them for the same offer.
Sadly, companies like Foxtel assume that if people don’t complain, then everything is fine. So unless you let Foxtel know they are missing the mark with their new offering, they won’t do anything to improve it.
The Foxtel Downloads by Troy Kelly, unless otherwise expressly stated, is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License.
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