Viewers around Australia have enthusiastically taken to ABC TV’s new internet TV service, with thousands trialling ABC iView in the 24 hours since it was unveiled to the public.

By midnight of Thursday 24 July, the iView homepage had recorded a total of 58,000 visits and 130,000 views. More than 2.3 Terabytes of files were transferred from the ABC secure server for the iView service.

ABC Director of Television, Kim Dalton, says the response to the new service has been wonderful. “This confirms our belief that Australians want quality content on a variety of platforms and the ability to watch this content at a time that suits them. We are confident that they will appreciate the choice that ABC iView gives them.”

ABC iView is a free internet broadcasting service that allows people to watch ABC TV programs on their computer – anytime, anywhere. It offers full-screen, high resolution pictures that are streamed over the internet. It offers viewers the ability to stop, pause, fast forward and rewind programs. ABC iView is designed to work on computers with a high speed broadband connection (ADSL2).