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Rod Speed <rod_speed@yahoo.com> wrote:
> Dave Farrance <DaveFarrance@OMiTTHiSyahooANDTHiS.co.uk> wrote:
>> Nobody Here <news.reader@invalid.invalid> wrote:
>>
>>> Dave Farrance <DaveFarrance@OMiTTHiSyahooANDTHiS.co.uk> wrote:
>>>> Michael <someone@somewhere.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Apologies if this was posted earlier but it was on the news when I
>>>>> was recently in Oz and probably has some relevance to UK
>>>>> switchover plans. see
>>>>> http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/article/ds24794.html
>>>>
>>>> It has. Australia has legislation to prevent DTT broadcasts of
>>>> channels that are not also available on analogue to prevent
>>>> fragmentation of the advertising revenue. They've been trying to
>>>> sell DTT to the Australian public on the basis of picture quality
>>>> so it's been a bit of a flop, not surprisingly.
>
>>> What are they transmitting digital on?
>
> VHF and UHF, more VHF than UHF.
>
>>> When I lived there 20 years ago most TV was on VHF,
>>> although one Sydney station was on UHF as well I believe.
>
> Yep, SBS.

Yes, that's right.  Never used to watch it, well rarely anyway.  It was
a bit European for our tastes at the time.  After 20 years in Europe
(well, England) though ...

>>> VHF used to suffer quite badly from reflections,
>>> maybe because of the long distances involved.
>
> Nope, no long distances involved.
>
> UHF has its own problems, particularly surprisingly deep holes.

I think they're longer distances than we use on UHF here in the UK,
it's rare to get a TV signal from more than 40 miles away.  Of course,
you have a different perspective on the word "long" ;-)  We're also
stuck in one of those deep holes.

>>> When we moved here we were (UK) we were
>>> astonished by the better picture quality, but it
>>> was also a new  TV which might have helped :-).
>>> Anyway, chances are that digital pictures
>>> will be better than VHF analogue ones,
>
> Corse they are.
>
>>> especially in the bush.
>
> Yep, some with basically unusable analog signals do fine with digital.

Well my Outlaws line in Inverell NSW and I think their TV comes from
Glen Innes, although I might be wrong, but the picture quality is very
poor (on analogue).  That might be for a number of reasons - it's
always been bad in the 25 years I've been going there, but certainly
it would be much *much* better were it digital.  Every time a plane
lands at the local airport there is a wobble in the pcture.

-- 
Nobby