ALDI is selling HD digital box with DVD for $59.
ALDI is selling HD digital TV with DVD for $199.
Antena instalation where I live is $170 with one outlet, extra outlets are
$100.
Complete Satellite TV system with installation is less than $400 and
Satellite TV is available EVERYWHERE in Australia.
Every pensioner would be more than happy to get $400 and setup digital TV
without Guvmint and have some left-over money for something else.
But, Murdoch and Paker would not be able to monopolise advertising if
Australia go logical solution without VAST (ed) cards.
Fuck Orwellian Government serving Murdoch and Paker.
BTW, SBS and ABC plus 100 TC Channels are already free Australia wide. Why
not broadcast AURORA without cards and Government can save MILLIONS ???
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> Abbott pointed out Harvey Norman could install a box for $168 - and
> they're not the cheapest!
>
> But that's nothing - no-one has explained why consumers need 100Mbps
> connections into the home when wireless connection can be done in a year,
> for one tenth of the cost and without digging up our streets. The only
> possible use is IPTV - so IOW, Labor are using public money to subsidise
> the media barons. This is the real 'Building the Entertainment
> Revolution'. Turning Australia into a nation of TV-watching Labor-voting
> couch potatoes.