Neither have I.
I got the same thing from the local member (same seat as @Radiohead ) & no whispers even in the industry about any new DTV translators in the area.
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Frustrates me that a lot of digital TVs don’t allow a channel to be stored on 0.
Would be a lot quicker to have 0 as a single button press. I rearrange channels to suit, SBS on 1, abc radio in single digits, no channel 10 services in single digits as I don’t watch 10.
I also have News Radio on 999 as I often just press the channel minus button from 1 (SBS on my TV) or a quick flick from 3 or 5 (local ABC radio and RN)
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I read the Imparja green paper submission.
I agree with them, 28 sites is expensive to maintain for such small populations.
Switch off all but Alice & Isa. Perhaps retain Katherine and Roma.
Imparja should also withdraw from the 38C licence aka the 10 JV and hopefully SCA does too, close it down altogether, they admit a total loss; anecdotally here ad breaks are entirely CSAs, so close it.
Also switch off the 38B services save for Gem for sport double up and the news double up.
They also made mention of more location specific advertising, that would be great. Run a metro feed if you have no clients for an area.
They did make a comment that since moving to MHA, they had no ability to insert programming yet Mediaspy members upload promos and client billboards, so that’s not entirely correct and Gem has NTD bulletins added and filler after to sync with schedule.
Imparja need to be more brutal for the govt to take notice.
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I hadn’t seen that before. It’s dated 2021 (?) and probably not much has changed in 2 years. It’s an interesting read.
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Are most networks running their channels through IPTV these days ? I don’t just mean the 7plus/9now/10play variants.
I’ve mentioned previously how some networks channels at some parts of the day look a bit “off” in the sense that the rate of motion (or frame rate) is slightly different compared to normal. Like it’s internet tv rather than traditional broadcast tv (noticed this with some sporting coverage originally, then it seeped into things like studio produced shows like the news or the morning breakfast shows etc).
Watching Channel 7’s cricket coverage just before where the imagery was very jittery (either a camera malfunction or something else ?). Running a further experiment - I switched off a device that has the tv antenna plugged into it and the tv channels were still operational. Usually the digital signal would be lost, every channel 7 and channel 9 channel (including mate/gem/go etc) were still functional. Channel 10’s “suite” came up with no digital signal.
My curiosity has risen slightly 
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Poor antenna. It had only a few years left before retirement. RIP
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Hey. I know this is unrelated, but I’m just wondering where you can get the list that is shown above with the channels and their compressions.
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That’s from an HDHomeRun web interface
Do I need another dongle for using HDHomeRun?
Hdhomerun connects via Ethernet to your router plus a coaxial/antenna cable for FTA.
Can then be accessed from your devices using their app/plex etc
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Does it only display the channels in my area?
Yes
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Massive storms through western and central Victoria this afternoon. Mount Alexander (Bendigo) TV off-air, radio services on backup generator power.
Ballarat services were impacted earlier but this has now been resolved
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I though t it would be interesting to check bit rates for WIN with tennis on 9Gem HD and 9Go HD tonight. There was a pretty even split between the three HD channels.
| 8 | 9SD | 2.3 |
| 80 | 9HD | 5.2 |
| 81 | Gem HD | 5.0 |
| 82 | Go HD | 5.0 |
| 83 | Life | 1.5 |
| 84 | TVSN | 1.2 |
| 85 | Gold | 1.1 |
Picture quality on WIN’s HD channels is much better than on Nine’s 9HD and 9Gem HD that are running around 4.0 MB/s (and that includes a higher bitrate for sound than on WIN)
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No way should the SD primary channel be running so high (if you can call 2.3 Mbps “high”) - should be split more evenly with 9Life imo
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It’s time they got rid of 9SD and introduced 9Life HD.
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I’d say thats exactly what they’ll do.
Keen to see what they have planned for WA. Apparently changes are “coming very soon” according to the WIN website. I reckon they’ll bite the bullet and switch to all MPEG-4 in one go. Guess we’ll see “very soon”…
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How long is very soon? DTV in WA has always been slow to catch up with metro and other markets. Like Seven WA has the exact same channels and resolutions since like 2011 or something. Not to be rude.
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WA isn’t known as Wait Awhile for nothing!
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