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I have to cut away. Text- heap commences.. Australia has had digital television (DTV) since the first day of 2. Practically nobody cares, but urban areas have been getting digital broadcasts. The reasons why practically nobody cares are pretty straightforward.
First up, digital television doesn't equal High Definition (HD) TV. Most. digital broadcasting was, and is, only Standard Definition (SD), which doesn't.
When digital TV was introduced, there was an explicit rule that. SDTV, and that meant that cheaper. SDTV- only receivers could be safely sold; SDTV's not going to go away and. SDTV- only gear useless. Analogue broadcasting is alleged to be ending. SDTV will go on forever.
For most of the first year of DTV broadcasting, you couldn't even. HDTV receiver, and so there wasn't much reason for any network. Why's that, I hear you ask? Can't you just buy digital HDTV gear from. USA or Europe or Japan or somewhere, wherever uses the same format that. Aussies do? Well, no you can't, because nowhere uses the same format we Aussies.
Australian digital TV is broadcast using the DVB- T system. That's one. of the Digital Video Broadcasting standards. MPEG- 2 video stream, and some other countries either. The USA's not. among them, but the USA doesn't use. Australian analogue TV.
Good so far. Unfortunately, Australia decided not to use DVB- T's standard MPEG 5. If we did, then tuners would have to re- encode it into Dolby. MPEG 5. 1. So instead, we opted. Advanced Television Systems Committee (ATSC).
Dolby Digital, a. AC- 3, 5. 1. channel sound. Which lots of home theatre gear understands.
Unless broadcasters choose not to use AC- 3, that is. In which case there's. MPEG audio, a. k. Musicam Stereo", which may have Dolby Pro.
Logic surround encoding, or may not. The combination of ATSC audio and DVB- T video is a compatibility killer. DTV equipment for Australia needs not only a tuner that can find the frequencies. DTV format. We're a special little market. New York. State. If New York State decided to use its own special TV format, major manufacturers. Internet access. If you're selling high- end audio- visual gear to a market. You'll aim for the.
Accordingly, if you want to buy a digital TV in Australia.. There is a grand total of one digital TV on the market here at. According to the widescreen TV list. Word. format and lists the price of a one metre diagonal Sony plasma screen as. I don't. take it as gospel. There are lots of widescreen sets available locally, but they. Some of them are SD, some of them are HD compatible.
What do you do if you want to view DTV on your TV- that- has- no- digital- tuner. You buy a Set Top Box (STB), that's what. A DTV STB is just a tuner. TV and optional A/V amplifier, and. Until quite recently, though, the STBs on the Australian market could. SDTV. So you got to pay several hundred dollars to view TV. TV's normal. analogue tuner.
PAL analogue TV doesn't look too awful in the first place - its 2. NTSC's 3. 0 frames per second and 5.
It's partly just. PAL's colour encoding scheme is superior to NTSC's as well. USA to PAL. countries like Australia sometimes think plain old PAL must be some kind.
HDTV. There are some things that you get from SD DTV that you don't. TV. Proper 1. 6: 9 aspect ratio widescreen, for a start.
Some analogue TV programs are broadcast in letterboxed widescreen, which. TVs can display in proper full- screen mode. But letterboxing. Widescreen SD DTV has full vertical resolution - it's a 4: 3 picture plus. So, despite. being only SD, it looks substantially better on any display with a reasonable. TV - no. Good- sized 4: 3 lounge- room.
Finding widescreen programs is still something of a crapshoot; movies. The. Digital Broadcasting Australia site. There's enough to make it worthwhile. As well as widescreen, there's that nice 5. When you can get it. It's less common than widescreen.
Digital reception is generally better, too. Because this is a digital. You get a. perfect picture and immaculate sound, or you get nothing.
There's. a narrow band where there's almost enough signal and you get to watch classic. MPEG Lego- vision, but it's nothing like the very wide spectrum of. TV. If the guy down the street with the arc. RF noise to blank your picture entirely, he won't. Of course, this cuts both ways; there are plenty of situations where. But it's possible to receive digital in urban areas. One True Aerial Location where all channels work.
Getting digital reception is, in my limited experience, probably not. If anything. it's easier - the all- or- nothing behaviour of the digital signal means that. You just have to be able to.
TV; if there's sound, and it's not cutting out intermittently. If your analogue reception is lousy, your digital reception may be nonexistent. But the odds seem pretty good, with current. STBs. DTV offers more channels, too. Here in Sydney we have five free- to- air. ABC. Ten. Each of them has one analogue. People who judge the quality of a culture by the number.
TV channels it offers (whether it's good or not to have 1. I leave open) should note that there are lots more channels.
Aussies if they pay for cable TV. All five networks have an SD DTV channel. At the moment, the ABC and. SBS each also have one HD channel that duplicates the SD programming (the.
ABC "HD" channel is, apparently, going to be SD- only unless they shut down. ABC Kids. and Fly TV from the ABC, and. SBS, with more stuff in the. The commercial networks (the ABC and SBS are government funded) aren't. HD channel, and subsidiary channels that they can use to show different.
Only local. material gets multiview, since overseas- sourced stuff only comes with one. Formula One fans can forget about riding with Michael Schumacher for. Multiview may be used for such exciting functions. I, for one, don't see that as. The Seven network hasn't yet bothered with any new channels at all.
When. it does have an "HD" channel, it'll apparently only be 5. Nine's showing off, in comparison, with a dedicated Program Guide. If you want closed captions, digital TV has 'em on many programs, generally.
There's current- program and next- program text displays. Electronic Program Guide") as well, plus a synopsis function that gives. TV guide blurb for most programs. And there may be thrilling interactive.
TV features at some point in the future, too, which you'll need a new kind. STB to access. Techno- evangelists have been bleating about this stuff.
All of the stuff SD DTV offers, put together, is probably not something. But you're going to have to. SD STBs still cost about $AU7. For reference, that's about. TV. As a result of all this, practically nobody's bought an STB. There are. no official statistics about DTV uptake in Australia, possibly because everybody. STBs that've been sold is apparently still in the rather low thousands.
Which has allowed journalists to write lots of articles with clever headlines. Digital TV gets poor reception".
What's needed is something obviously superior. Like HDTV, for instance. The HDTV broadcast channels are there; the ABC's only broadcasting SDTV. HD" channel, and Seven hasn't got its act together yet, but Nine. Ten have 'em, and SBS's 5.
HD is better than. They're all only mirroring their SDTV broadcasts on the HD channel. HD version of whatever show is on, but HD programs are cropping.
The trouble with HDTV, of course, is that you need a high resolution. The 1. 08. 0 line interlaced standard. Aussie HDTV broadcasts use is far beyond the display capabilities. TVs. You can connect an HD tuner to an SD set and, if the set's. SD. But most of the. The absolute cheapest 1.
TV you can get is Panasonic's. TX- 7. 6PW1. 0A, which according to. Panasonic's Australian site has. AU4,8. 99 at the moment. Plus the price of whatever you use. Most 1. 08. 0i compatible displays are giant CRTs or plasma screens, with. V6 Holden Commodore.
Can I get an "ay, caramba", people? I thought I could. There's a lot to be said for video projectors, here. You can get projectors.
Sony VPLVW1. 0HT I reviewed a while ago, for. TV, and they're far more portable, but you need a dark room if you want.
So, even if you shop around and save a few hundred off the list prices. Aussie bucks to view HDTV. If you do it the usual way, that is.
Us technophiles knew exactly what we wanted from digital HDTV the minute. It's an MPEG- 2 data stream, after all, maybe accompanied. MPEG audio, maybe with AC- 3. In any case, it's just a bit stream. You. want a box to pull it out of the air and output it in various formats.
And. you want to display it on a relatively cheap device with quite enough resolution. You are, of course, very probably looking at just such a device right. Computer monitors that can do 1. HDTVs, a dime a dozen. If you view 1. 6: 9 on your 4: 3 monitor then you lose.
This vision, however, could not be realised until HDTV- capable STBs with. PC video output turned up. You couldn't get such a STB, for some time. But now you can. Here one is. This DGTEC DH- 2.
A is the only. High Definition Set Top Box (HD- STB) available in Australia at the moment. The first product available in a category often has Serious Issues, and. DH- 2. 00. 0A had some entertaining quirks early on.
But they're. fixable, as we'll see. The DH- 2. 00. 0A costs from about $AU7. AU9. 00, depending on. If you're going to buy tweaky bleeding- edge. AU1. 00. 0 from a dealer who may have.
AU7. 29. 9. 9 deal from Crazy Bruce's Appliance Abode. Your opinion. may differ. The DH- 2. 00. 0A is not, by the way, made by DGTEC. It's made in Korea by. Hyunwoo Mcplus, whose company name. I think, even funnier than their motto: "Make the world a place to convenience.
High- tech Digital."The back of the DH- 2. A is more interesting than the front, for hopeful. HDTV cheapskates. You want connectors? You got connectors.