If VAST is the fall back as more remote terrestrial sites potentially get shut down then it needs to have more localism. I’m still a fan of the idea of narrow spot beams that could achieve this nationally.
Shared this previously in the VAST thread.
With this method I’d like to see all regional broadcasters on VAST - not just the Remote Central and Eastern Australia licensees.
Better still hopefully this occurs in an MPEG-4 only environment terrestrially. Meaning this version of VAST could then be used to feed the existing terrestrial sites across all of regional Australia (with no down scaling from MPEG-4 to MPEG-2) reducing costs for microwave links and the need for the WIN-owned DDA company.