[opendtv] OZ DTV Update
- From: "Colin Wright" <colinrwright@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 26 Mar 2008 22:01:05 +1100
Hi,
Since Bert was going on about Oz DTV about a week ago, I thought you might like
to have a more up-to-date on Oz Free-to-air DTV and the increasing range in Oz
of CE DVB-T product available (and being bought in larger than manufacturer
projected quantities).
http://www.current.com.au/2008/03/26/article/KUZOEEMZWS.html
"The Federal government has announced a $37.9 million strategy to drive
Australia's transition to digital TV, with $6.7 million set aside for a new
labeling scheme to inform customers about which television-related products are
digital-ready." That included a final digital switchover date - end 2013. Yes,
that seems a while away, but it's much shorter than the time back to when we
started digital TV (Sydney 2000, which only seems like yesterday), it'll be
here sooner than we think.
In the meantime the commercial TV networks are now allowed to separately
program their HD channel from their main SD channel Seven and Ten now have
regular separate HD programming - Nine soon. For HD programs on air see
http://www.dtvforum.info/index.php?showforum=15
In 9 months, beginning 2009, networks plan to have an extra SD service as well,
so there will be at least 5 HD and 10 SD free-to-air services in most Oz cities.
For a country of about 8m TV homes, current TV sales are about 1.5m pa
The HD-tick web site (http://www.hdtick.com.au/products.htm ) lists about 70
certified TVs - this doesn't include all brands available on the Oz market (see
http://www.voxson.com/ http://www.triocorp.com.au/
http://www.teac.com.au/product/3
http://www.australiandigitaltv.com/humax/index.htm for example).
A commercial testing laboratory ( http://www.digitaltesting.com.au/) has been
established in Sydney. They are already providing test of performance
certification of DVB-T receivers for the Australian market. They also are
working with manufacturers and broadcasters to make a practical reality for
software updates if required, by any DTV receivers or PVR/DVRs via nation-wide
over-the-air data carried in the DVB-T signal using the ETSI standard.
DVB-T works!
regards,
Colin Wright
Seven Network Ltd
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