Fetch TV

Fetch TV

Industry	Internet television
Founded	July 2010
Area served	Australia
Products	IPTV, Pay television, Pay-per-view
Website	www.fetchtv.com.au

FetchTV is an Australian IPTV company, operating a subscription television service over a user's regular Internet service. It provides a Set Top Box with Personal Video Recorder for recording from Free-to-Air channels - and adds regular subscription channels, radio, Video on Demand, Pay per view, and applications. FetchTV launched in 2010, backed by its Malaysian parent (40%) Astro All Asia Networks, and is sold through partner Internet Service Providers (ISPs).

Availability

FetchTV requires its partner ISPs networks to be capable of handling multicast - for the subscription channels and some of the Video on Demand content. The standard service is available to customers of its partner ISPs who are connected to select exchanges (with the ISP's own DSLAMS and acceptable backhaul), who have an acceptable modem and a minimum Internet sync speed of 4.5Mbps. The lite package has fewer requirements.

FetchTV is available through three ISPs, with 12 more planning a service

• iiNet launched its service in July 2010
• Internode launched its "Early Adopter" Program in October 2010 and officially launched 11 May 2011
• Optus launched in the second half of 2011, to jointly develop an IPTV service with integrated mobile functionality for smartphones and tablet devices. Broadband bundles now available with trimmed down version of FetchTV.
• Adam Internet invited customers to register their interest from October 2010

Features

Fetch offers a single model Set Top Box, for both its services.

The Fetch Set Top Box has a 1TB hard disk and 3 Tuners (for recording 2 channels while watching a 3rd). Recordings from either FTA and subscription channels can use 500GB of the hard disk space, while 400GB stores movies and shows made available as Video on Demand. The remaining 100GB is for system use.

Lite Package

The Lite package is available through iiNet as "FetchTV 1", and has no subscription channels or Video on Demand content - focussing instead on its PVR functions and pay-per-view movies.

• Free to air digital channels (with PVR recording)
• Pay per View movies: 40 new release titles available at given anytime, re-watchable within the 48 hours of renting it.
• Casual games, social media applications including Facebook and Twitter.

Standard Package

The standard package starts with the Lite content and adds "linear" channels, Video on Demand & Movie Box.

• Free to air digital channels (with PVR recording)
• Subscription TV Channels (with PVR recording)
• Video On Command 'channels'
• Movie Box Movies on Command: Movies from Disney, Warner Bros, MGM, Village Roadshow, Hollywood Studios
• Movie Rental (Pay-per-view): 40 new release titles available at given anytime, re-watchable within the 48 hours of renting it.
• Casual games, social media applications

Sports Add On

The official channels of five of European Football clubs. In early 2011 these channels were added to the standard package.

In May 2011 the FetchTV website began referring to these as an add-on package, though as of 9 May no change was made to the iiNet or Internode packages.

World TV Packages

Several premium international channel packages are available as add ons to the standard Fetch service

Third Party Access

The FetchTV service can only be watched on a FetchTV set top box. Programs can not be transferred independently to or from the STB, though Fetch plans on offering such access in the future and is pursuing interoperability with the DLNA.

Channels

Free-to-air

The Fetch Set Top Box includes 3 digital TV tuners. Locally available FTA TV channels are received via a regular antenna, and can be watched and recorded on Fetch, using a Fetch-supplied TV guide.

For a complete list of Free-to-Air TV channels see Digital terrestrial television in Australia

EPG no.	Channel name	Notes	Broadcast hours	Widescreen	Pay-per-view
100	MoviePlex Trailers		24 hours	Yes	No
101	Fox Sports News		24 hours	Yes	No
111	MTV Classic		24 hours	Yes	No
117	MTV Hits		24 hours	Yes	No
118	E!		24 hours	Yes	No
119	MTV		24 hours	Yes	No
121	Nat Geo		24 hours	Yes	No
122	Animal Planet		24 hours	Yes	No
130	Nat Geo Adventure		24 hours	Yes	No
131	TLC		24 hours	Yes	No
132	Discovery Home & Health		24 hours	Yes	No
140	Science Channel		24 hours	Yes	No
141	Discovery Turbo MAX		24 hours	Yes	No
150	Baby TV		24 hours	Yes	No
165	MUTV		24 hours	Yes	No
166	Chelsea TV		24 hours	Yes	No
167	Manchester City TV		24 hours	Yes	No
169	BarcaTV		24 hours	Yes	No
178	WeatherZone		24 hours	Yes	No
180	BBC World News		24 hours	Yes	No
181	CNBC		24 hours	Yes	No
182	France24		24 hours	Yes	No
183	Euronews		24 hours	Yes	No
184	NDTV 24x7		24 hours	Yes	No
185	DW		24 hours	Yes	No
187	Al Jazeera English		24 hours	Yes	No
188	CCTV News		24 hours	Yes	No
189	Net 25		24 hours	Yes	No

Other Channels

• Setanta Sports
• Bloomberg
• Ovation
• Real Madrid TV (Real Madrid C.F.)

Music Channels

Music channels show a graphic image of the current, previous and next songs on playlist, with name, artist and record label.

• Chart Hits
• Pop
• Easy Mix / Easy Rock
• Party
• Club Dance
• Urban
• Rock Classics
• Rock Hits
• Home Grown
• Indie
• Lounge
• Grooves

VoC Channels (Video on Command - included in basic package)

• WarnerTV (comedy/drama)
• Frontiers (Sci-Fi)
• ABC for Kids (kids)
• GekkoTV (kids)
• Profiles (documentaries)
• Chronicles (documentaries)
• iinet (Freezone TV downloads)

World TV Packages

Each World TV package has a bundle of channels (Extra monthly charges apply)

• Hindi package - 14 channels
• Pakistani package - 12 channels
• Mandarin "Great Wall" package - 17 channels
• Mandarin 2 package (from Singapore, Taiwan, China and Japan) - 11 channels

External links

• FetchTV
• Internode FetchTV
• iiNet FetchTV
• Adam FetchTV