National broadband provider Internode is introducing new offerings in online entertainment to compete with rivals Telstra and iiNet. The company revealed its plans to launch an internet television trial in late September.

Similar to iiNet's offering, Internode will resell the fetchtv service. The service allows customers to use a set-top box for downloading content from the company's servers as well as watching and recording live free to air television in high definition.

In a statement, Simon Hackett, Internode's managing director, said "the fetchtv early access trial will let keen customers help Internode to 'road test' the service and our support for it, ahead of the doors being opened to all eligible Internode customers later in the year."

"We've had a lot of interest since we announced our intention to work with fetchtv earlier this year, so we expect this early adopter program to attract strong participation from our customers who are as keen as we are to make this service a wonderful addition to their Internode broadband services."

Currently, interested Internode customers can register to take part in the trial via the fetchtv website. The company will only provide full details to registered customers when its early adopter trial is launched "towards the end of September".

Only Internode customers under the Extreme or Naked Extreme plans will be eligible to apply for the trial. The 'Extreme' plan refers to broadband services with its own ADSL infrastructure.

The ISP will offer the full range of fetchtv content. Internode has released the details of one pricing plan which charges a $99 setup fee and a monthly charge of $29.95 as a rental for the set-top box.