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posted on 2005-04-20 10:46 EDT by Christopher Macdonald

Turner Broadcasting's Toonami VOD channel is now being offered on Video Networks Ltd's HomeChoice video-on-demand service. It is offered as a part of HomeChoice's kid's TV package, broadcasting on channel 326. On the technical side, the HomeChoice Toonami channel is the first channel in the world to be broadcast using the MPEG-4/AVC compression format.

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