I managed to spend time at REMIX this year in both Sydney and Melbourne.  I was speaking on user experiences and media monetization at a breakfast we held for some of our web agency and ISV partners.

Overall highlight of the event was the great local atmosphere - almost all Australian speakers (even some of the Microsoft corporate ones).   Michael and Shane did a great job of the keynote and pulling together all local demos of great work being done with our technology.

For me the most interesting breakout session was Vaughan Knight and Laith Alasad from Hyro talking through the solution they built for ABC Commercial.  

I'd spent some time talking to the ABC about their back-end architecture and media delivery for this project but what I really like is the Silverlight user experience the ABC team and Hyro created.   It provides a rich additional online and offline front-end to the existing shop website services, authentication and media assets (via Media RSS).  This is now live in public beta as the new ABC Shop download service.

You can find a video of Matt Moran's (Technical Director from ABC Commercial) demo in the keynote here and Vaughan and Laith talking about the ABC preview player and its architecture here.   A good example of taking a Software + Services approach to a media solution - delivering multiple client experiences (online and offline) back-ended by a series of shared web-based services.