Most people I know pay for at least two or three streaming platforms. Not only is it an expensive luxury, but with so many options, it can feel impossible to pick something to watch. I once spent an hour trying to pick a show, and by the time I decided, I was too tired to watch it.
Could I survive on just one (free) app? How would the content compare with the other subscriptions I have (and, more importantly, pay for)? I abandoned Binge, Netflix, Paramount + and all the other streaming services I usually switch between and decided to go steady with ABC iview. For a week.
ABC has more films than I imagined, including many classics. I spotted several movies I was keen to watch including The Secret Garden (for nostalgia reasons) and Strictly Ballroom (a cultural blindspot for me).
I would recommend iview for TV lovers looking to save money (and time). Like SBS On Demand, it has great shows and movies, but iview is mostly ad-free, aside from occasional ABC promotions. If you want to cut back on streaming expenses but hate ads, ABC iview is unbeatable.
I spend $962 a year on streaming services. I don\\u2019t do it because I enjoy spending money in a cost-of-living crisis, but because I love TV and my job requires me to stay updated on the latest releases. Financially, it stings.
There\\u2019s a decent content library from ABC\\u2019s various channels. If you want to watch the latest Q&A or Four Corners episode or one of the broadcaster\\u2019s original programs including Bluey, The Newsreader or Old People\\u2019s Home for Teenagers, it\\u2019s the obvious choice.
I scrolled through the app for half a second before landing on a collection: \\u201CBest of the Brits\\u201D \\u2013 which featured a large collection of gritty crime dramas. I knew I\\u2019d found my home. It took me two days to watch the first season of The Suspect, a show I\\u2019d been meaning to watch for a while.
Under \\u201CRecommended For You\\u201D, I saw a bunch of other shows I\\u2019ve seen and loved, including Annika and Happy Valley, so I felt pretty confident I\\u2019d find similar quality shows if I kept looking. (I rewatched Happy Valley\\u2019s final episode this week after one of its scenes won a BAFTA on Monday.)
In \\u201CThis Week\\u2019s Most Watched\\u201D was a new series, After The Party, which I remembered for its , so I added it to my watch list \\u2013 a handy list that features quite prominently when you first open iview.
I briefly contemplated watching Big Ted\\u2019s Excellent Adventure: 50 Years Of Play School because Kate Ritchie and Big Ted were looking at me very convincingly, but I didn\\u2019t get around to it because I knew a corpse in a British canal was probably waiting for me instead. If asked to choose between Big Ted and a pair of wistful cops drinking coffee while gazing at a crime scene, it will always be the latter.
There are some consistency issues with ABC iview. When you start watching a miniseries, the first episode of each season is clearly labelled in order, like \\u201CEpisode 1: Corpse in a British Canal.\\u201D Clear as day!
But when I decided to watch Bluey (for the first time \\u2013 not bad), I looked at season one and found there was no episode number next to any of the 52 episodes available. All I had were random episode titles to go by, which meant I had to go to the Wikipedia page (a famously ) to find out what the first episode was (it\\u2019s called Magic Xylophone if you were wondering). The problem is, the first episode was not the first one I saw. I needed to scroll to the very end of the collection to find it. Bluey episodes might stand alone and can probably be watched at random, but it\\u2019s an oddly inconvenient way of displaying content.
If completion is important to you, iview might not be the best service. Not having full seasons for some shows can be frustrating. There\\u2019s a great British game show called Would I Lie To You?, and iview has seasons 3 to 15. If I have the time to watch 13 seasons of Would I Lie To You?, at least give me the first two as well. Similarly, iview has the fourth and fifth movies in the Twilight franchise, which is great if you want to start a movie franchise four films in.
Meanwhile, shows don\\u2019t seem to be licensed as long on iview as they do on paid streaming services. A little while ago, I watched season one of The Capture on iview. When I looked to see if the platform also had season two this week, I found that the entire show had been taken down.
Despite a few user experience issues, I found watching iview on my iPhone, Windows desktop, and smart TV to be seamless. For a week, it was perfectly fine to only watch ABC iview \\u2013 but while my bank account would be happier if I cancelled my other subscriptions and continued this experiment, my soul would not. I have shows to watch and canals to search.
One my end users managed to remove the ESS iView from the page by using the 'remove from page' option of page personalization properties ( This option will be there at the small square kinda of box on top of every page).
IF it was end user personalization, the iView was not "deleted". It was simply removed from the page. The portal content admin can "add" lots of iViews to a page and have them available to the end user to show/hide as they wish....like in the case where a user builds their own "dashboard". To get the iview back, the user simply goes back into personalization and adds it back to their page. It is nothing you can control on the admin side (short of either making iviews fixed or not allowing personalization at all).
In my case, I have ONLY one iview in the page and that is deleted and not able to find it anywhere..I didn't get point 'To get the iview back, the user simply goes back into personalization and adds it back to their page' - which personalization you are talking about here ? I have tried clicking personalization at places
In Employee Search area page - > there is Change Own data appliation. for this page on top right corner ( just beside the tray icon ) one button will be there, I used the option 'remove from page' there. Once I did that the entire page will go blank.
select that personalize,It will displays the layout of the page,at bottom we have Restore Defaults button,click that button,your page is back as normal position as you created in pcd.
In my case, once I deleted the iView from page all those page tray icons, and the options like History,Back,Forward,Try Icon,there we have options personalize ALL have been gone. Now I am seeing just COMPLETE blank page.
ABC iview is a video on demand and catch-up TV service run by the Australian Broadcasting Corporation. Currently iview video content can only be viewed by users in Australia.[1] As of 2016, ABC iview attracts around 50 million plays monthly and accounts for around half of the total time streamed by Australian TV video services.[2]
After running for several months in beta form under the name "ABC Playback", the service became available as a Flash website in July 2008.[1] This was the next step after the video podcasting of ABC TV programs since July 2006.
An iOS app for iPads was launched in December 2010, followed by a mobile version for iPhone in June 2012. An iview Android app supporting phones and tablets on Android 4.0.3 and above was released on 18 December 2013.[3]
ABC iview provides on-demand access to almost all the TV programs that are broadcast on the ABC's linear broadcast channels (ABC TV, ABC Family, ABC Kids, ABC Entertains, ABC News), as well as simulcast live streams of those channels and original content and programs acquired exclusively for ABC iview.
In 2012 the ABC sent a legal notice to the author of an open source program called Python-iView which enabled users to download videos from the ABC.[14] Other download tools such as youtube-dl continue to claim support for unofficially downloading from the site.[15]
In late 2008 the iview website video player was updated to allow for unmetering (zero-rating) by several Australian ISPs through network peering arrangements. The ISPs included Internode,[16] iPrimus,[17] Westnet, Apex Internet and Adam Internet. iiNet was able to offer iview unmetered without the peering upgrade. In addition, AARNet, Cinenet, and Comcen since offer unmetered access to iview.[18] ABC TV live streams and content not streamed using Adobe Flash (i.e. through the iPad and Internet connected TVs) is currently not unmetered, however this may change in the future.[19]
The goal of the iview project was to develop a free-viewpoint system that allows the capture and interactive replay of live events using multiple cameras. The technology uses multi-camera images as an input and is based on algorithms for 3D reconstruction, texture mapping and view-synthesis at interactive refresh rates. Although the techniques could be used for many applications, the project focused on sports scenarios (football and rugby). It can be viewed as a more advanced version of the single-camera 3D reconstruction system developed for the Piero project.
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