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"Dave Farrance" <DaveFarrance@OMiTTHiSyahooANDTHiS.co.uk> wrote in message 
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>>What are they transmitting digital on?

In the capital cities mostly VHF with some UHF

> When I lived there 20 years
>>ago most TV was on VHF, although one Sydney station was on UHF as well
>>I believe.

3 commercials & ABC use VHF, SBS uses UHF (same with digital). UHF in fill 
translators as well.

>VHF used to suffer quite badly from reflections, maybe
>>because of the long distances involved.

It's because of the terrain in Sydney - quite common not to have line of 
sight to the towers & plenty of structures to reflect signal off.

> 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, especially in the bush.

They are better. In the bush, local transmitters use UHF (often channels in 
the 50's & 60's), however it's not uncommon to get the VHF digital signals 
fine well outside the metropolitan areas. If you look at 
www.abc.net.au/reception & put the capital city postcodes in, you'll see the 
spill on the map from the ABC digital TV service (Sydney - 2000, Melbourne - 
3000, Adelaide - 5000, etc.).

Justin