$240/year is probably pretty good value, seeing as I'd really only watch Discovery Channel and National Geo probably anyhow.

Will have to see whether my ISP offers it unmetered though.

A tentative maybe..

Yeah, I was thinking the deciding factor would definitely be whether or not ISP unmeter the access to it - but most people on ADSL2 these days have 100gb+ plans, streaming this for 2hrs a day would probably be closer to 5-10gb a month, not exactly a major hit.

Yeah it's not bad. I'd probably add the entertainment pack if I was going for it, but a lack of history channel is lame.

Truth be told I barely watch TV these days. I don't have any antenna stuff set up in my flat so unless I come into the main house I don't have access to it. I'll watch mediawatch and Q&A and all on mondays for uni, but I can catch them on iView (which is awesome) if I miss it.

iView is pretty good quality, free, and most episodes of things only take about 150mb if that. Normally catch stuff like Qi with Stephen Fry which is pretty funny - and apart from that I don't have heaps of time for it most days.

how much is the xbl membership/month?

Dunno how much it is per month but if you buy it for 12 months it's about $90. I think you can find cards online for 60 or lower though, so it's shit all if you shop around.

Yeah, it's about $60 through gamecards.com. You'd assume most 360 owners are paying for Gold anyhow if they play online as there isn't much you can do online without it.

This will be heavily tailored towards bigpuddle users I think. Even if costs them for the bandwidth which becomes "quota free" for users, they can absorb it with their extra cost over most other ISP, and then make it back in advertising deals on Foxtel itself .. Foxtel is 50% owned by Telstra, 25% by news corp and 25% by Consolidated Media Holdings. If the others get a look-in will be nice, but not counting on it.