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The prices are the same. But this is just the first step in a huge transformation in the way Foxtel works and how it sits in Australias media landscape. Read more. This is partly understandable. Unprecedented demand crashed HBOs streaming service, HBO Now, in the US. Unprecedented makes sense its the second last season of the worlds most popular television show but thats not the same thing as unexpected. Foxtels network engineers should have forecasted unprecedented demand. They should have expected it. And because they didnt, expectant customers were disappointed. Foxtel Now has had a relatively easy honeymoon period for its launch no huge event TV to stress test the servers its carried across from the days when it was called Foxtel Play and Foxtel Go. Six weeks since it debuted with fanfare, Game of Thrones has made it fall over. What happens when The Walking Dead, equally popular, comes back while Game of Thrones is also being streamed Foxtels media department issued a mea culpa late last night, in a press release titled Game of Thrones Phenomenon Crash Sites Across the Globe It mentioned the fact that the number of viewers had sent even HBO into a tailspin. But what else could you do, apart from apologise for your service Foxtel spends 1. Foxtel has the best breadth and depth of content in Australia. Download Film The Pirates Who Don`T Do Anything ' title='Download Film The Pirates Who Don`T Do Anything ' />Foxtel outspends its competitors Netflix and Stan by more than 1. TV shows and movies like Game of Thrones. And Foxtel has an excellent infrastructure cable TV network, and has had for years. Watch Happiness Is A Warm Blanket, Charlie Brown Online Free. Who would have expected that the first death during the seventh season of Game of Thrones would be the pay TV network charged with distributing it digitally around AustraliaRead more. But it still doesnt have the streaming product that we want to use. Theyve tried to fix it, but they still screwed up. And itll get better with time, as it has in the past from HD streaming to 4. K streaming, offline downloads, and so on. Foxtel has promised as much. But pirates arguments only need the smallest provocation to consider themselves justified. For what its worth, when I wanted to watch Game of Thrones last night, I went to bed and switched on my TV and powered on my PS4, jumped into the Foxtel Now app and navigated to Game of Thrones. And it worked The streaming quality was alright not up to the standards of a pirated 1. And convenience is the keystone, the lynchpin, for Foxtel Now. Its even in the name. Now. 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This would seem to indicate that Samsung still hasnt perfected the tech to build fingerprint recognition into the display itself, something the company had hoped, and failed, to do on the Galaxy S8. Overall, the Note 8 looks a little more boxy than the Galaxy S8, although it still features a screen with rounded corners and tapered edges that curve gently around the side of the phone. As for the stylus, the S pen in the render looks almost identical to the one that shipped with the Galaxy Note 7, and as such, were expecting the Galaxy Note 8 to have a little slot for stowing the stylus away when not in use. The render shows the Note 8 in both black and gold, which seems like probable color options, though were expecting to see something in silver or gray at launch too. Traditionally, Samsung also has a signature color that debuts alongside a new Galaxy Note. Last year is was coral blue, but there hasnt been much rumored about what that color may be for the Note 8. Specs. 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