No word if Channel 44, which is based at the ABC studios, will be moving either with the ABC and the other tenants into a new premises, or if it will find it’s own place.
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Reading this now in March 2025.
Five years later.
Hopefully not putting a kybosh on it, Adel and Melb CTV both going strong.
Hopefully they can thrive through to any mandated change towards DVB-T2/H.265 or better and we see further efficiencies of spectrum to restack the channel blocks and create an additional digital dividend.
The technology will follow the money and mobile data network frequencies will continue to move down the UHF band.
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Is there a CTV+ app for TVs still coming
Of course there isn’t.
Doesn’t make sense for community media. YouTube is a better service for such programming. As long as the networks remain, so should CTV as it serves a purpose.
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It’s been promised for years. It won’t happen as they just don’t have the funds and resources to do it.
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Here is Darwin’s range of 4 community TV channels going by…
- Darwin TV
- Tourism TV
- Business TV
- First Nations TV
Business TV and Darwin TV seems to show very random torrents & content with no local interest, but the other two seem to live up to their name.
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what sort of shows are on Darwin TV?
Didn’t they receive funding from the Fed Govt for this? Don’t tell me they spent the funds fixing their clapped out DVBt transmitter instead?
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Channel 31
@C31MelbourneWe’re updating some of our amazing CTV programs from 720p to UHD in preparation for the release of our Smart TV app.
Soon you’ll also be able to stream both C31 &
@44adelaide
live in HD, as opposed to our standard definition broadcast.Watch Different. Watch CTV+!
#CTVPlus
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Pretty amazing they can get 4K going but the other broadcasters haven’t fully figured out 1080p. Really great stuff!
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I thought the live streams on ABC iview, SBS On Demand, 7plus, 9Now and 10 were already 1080p?
SBS and Nine are streaming in 1080p. I think 7Plus only does 1080p for some sport and 720p other times? ABC is 720p. 10 is still SD across the board except for some sporting events.
On demand content on all of them is very hit or miss. ABC, SBS and 7 in 720p(?), Nine in 1080p mostly, 10 is in SD.
On 7 and 9 it’s definitely 1080 for everything, but 10 is only for the live streams. The 10 on demand is still SD.
ABC also does output 1080p streams via iview, but only on specific devices. I believe iview for Android or via the website outputs 720p streams.
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When is CTV+ going to launch their smart TV app?
They are too beholden to their legacy FTA spectrum instead.
With a dwindling number of potential viewers as people replace their antennas with VHF only in Melbourne.
When there was the threat of spectrum being taken away, a number of times they said an app was in the works, and to hold off removing them from channel 31 (44 virtual) until it was ready. They also kept claiming streaming was the future. Back to the mid 2010s I think. Only ten years ago!
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Streaming apps for CTV don’t really seem like a thing that would work.
Bring back TVS!
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