Television

Doctor Who is good. It has the Tardis, and Daleks and Cybermen and all that.

How we view television content continues to change rapidly. Jonathan Coleman explains the Government's approach to the new environment and how public broadcasting fits into the mix.

John Lapsley bemoans the dominance of the ubiquitous - and glamorous - TV pathologist, and the long slow decline of plain old "deductive reasoning" from our screens.

The $13 million campaign launched last year to make sure people know about the switch over to digital television has reached Otago, with the appointment of a Going Digital community adviser Dan Murphy.

Television and the internet are merging with such whiplash speed that for a while, viewers will have trouble keeping track of all the little technological boxes on top of their sets, much less the countless thousands of shows they can watch, entertainment executives told a television producers' convention last week.

Otago households have until April 2013 to make the switch to digital television.

Government officials are sounding out technology companies about the best way to expand the reach of free-to-air digital television as a Cabinet decision on the shutdown date for analogue TV approaches.

On a blustery spring day five years ago, Yakov Lapitzy pointed a video camera at his friend Jawed Karim standing in front of two elephants at the San Diego Zoo and hit the record button.

Google believes it has come up with the technology to unite web surfing with channel surfing on televisions.

Google will make an ambitious bid to extend its reach into the living room when it debuts its internet television software this week.