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Thread ID: 69881 2006-06-15 04:37:00 Free to Air Digital TV - will it make a difference? Rutherford (10399) PC World Chat
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463290 2006-06-15 21:58:00 [QUOTE=Steve_L

Eventually analogue transmission will stop but until then why would anyone bother paying all the extra $$ to get digital TV ?????[/QUOTE]
You don't. Yet. Until they turn off the analogue signal that is....
pctek (84)
463291 2006-06-15 23:10:00 I can't believe the moaning here. I thought everyone would what this, as most of us here like technology. :eek: plod (107)
463292 2006-06-15 23:26:00 I can't believe the moaning here. I thought everyone would what this, as most of us here like technology. :eek:

We would want it if it was worth the cost and it was value for money, but more than likley we will get a crap serive, pay through the teeth for it and not everyone will be able to get it and the reception will be garbage. a bit like broadband really.

If they are having problenms with HDTV working over here what hope do they have with freeview.
I get HDTV sometimes, when the rain and wind are not battering my tv arieal :D
mode3 (6544)
463293 2006-06-16 03:06:00 Yes but what is the good of having a fantastic picture of a load of especially and particularly American crap but not excluding British crap as well, like they say you can't polish a tu*d.

(* = r)
zqwerty (97)
463294 2006-06-16 04:30:00 like they say you can't polish a tu*d .

(* = r)

I think you can, because telecon have been doing it for months and then offering it up a $1 a day broadband . Then we all have to deal with there constipation = Backlog and its stinking the whole place out . I know its off topic but I couldn't help myself .
mode3 (6544)
463295 2006-06-16 04:58:00 Yes but what is the good of having a fantastic picture of a load of especially and particularly American crap but not excluding British crap as wellWell, I guess digital television is going to be more appetising to those that don't hate TV. ;) I agree with you that 75% of what is on TV probably is rubbish, but it is a bit extreme when people say there is nothing to watch, because there are plenty of great programs making up the other 25%. :) maccrazy (6741)
463296 2006-06-16 07:03:00 Wish we could join this Aussie Pay TV though, look at the keen pricing compared to Sky: www.selectv.com

I read somewhere a while ago that one of these networks may consider to enter the NZ market. Cannot remember which one though...
BoboTheClown (5652)
463297 2006-06-16 08:57:00 Couldn't agree more with Plod.

For ages we've read moans here about the non-arrival of digital TV.
And now we're told it's coming, what happens?
More moans.

It'll cost too much...
The programmes will be dreadful...
Our TV sets will be outmoded...
etc...

Or did I miss something in the information release?
Perhaps there was an edict which said it'll be compulsory?
Laura (43)
463298 2006-06-16 09:04:00 Wish we could join this Aussie Pay TV though, look at the keen pricing compared to Sky: . selectv . com/packages" target="_blank">www . selectv . com



Cor, wouldn't want to be Spanish :waughh:
Shortcircuit (1666)
463299 2006-06-16 10:18:00 Wrong in five years time tvs that arrive in the country will have a digital tuner built into them this will then mean you can do away with a set top box and just plug your sky or freeview cable into the back of it. Hitech (9024)
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