Analog TV Shutoff Approaches
Lawrence D'Oliveiro
<http://computerworld.co.nz/news.nsf/netw/B2DEDA7E6B2EB282CC25769400755E7D>.
The frequencies they’re talking about would appear to be the entire current
UHF TV band
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australasian_television_frequencies#NZ>, with
the new allocations being split between digital TV and next-generation
cellular use.
This is all still a few years away from actually happening, but you can bet
the commercial pressures will build to ensure it doesn't get delayed.
Richard
Good.
With sky vacating UHF shortly there is no reason they can not reshuffle
the remnants of analog broadcasting down onto the channels left by sky
to get the 700MHz band available almost immediatly.
whoisthis
wrote:
Isnt there a treat claim on it already...
Mutlley
Yep. The greedies won't give this one a miss. Anything excuse for
something free.
Lawrence D'Oliveiro
> With sky vacating UHF shortly there is no reason they can not reshuffle
> the remnants of analog broadcasting down onto the channels left by sky
> to get the 700MHz band available almost immediatly.
Because organizing a mass retuning of everybody’s analog receivers is as
about as expensive an operation as simply buying and plugging in a Freeview
decoder.
Richard
Already have moved many channels around to make room for digital.
Perhaps losing the channels and having to retune may make people get off
their ass and get digital.
Lawrence D'Oliveiro
> Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
>
>> In message <hgrnl1$ao8$1...@news.albasani.net>, Richard wrote:
>>
>>> With sky vacating UHF shortly there is no reason they can not reshuffle
>>> the remnants of analog broadcasting down onto the channels left by sky
>>> to get the 700MHz band available almost immediatly.
>>
>> Because organizing a mass retuning of everybody’s analog receivers is as
>> about as expensive an operation as simply buying and plugging in a
>> Freeview decoder.
>
> Already have moved many channels around to make room for digital.
No they haven’t. Not TV ones.
Richard
Yes they have, maori and something else moved on 2 auckland sites, and
there were many others around the country with some sky UHF moving too.