Digital TV Technical Discussion

[WAtvVideos]

@Moe

Certainly hope they do the flip to then make 9Gem a HD channel. I wonder if 9Go going HD is in the pipeline

If so then I like their approach. Just switch them like 10 did with 10 BOLD and be done with it.

@Moe

or if we’ll see Gold go HD.

[insert years-old running joke here]

[Brad1]

In regional Vic, 7Mate is running MPEG4 HD on Ch64 with SD on 63.

[TBoy]

@Brad1

In regional Vic, 7Mate is running MPEG4 HD on Ch64 with SD on 63

Has since the start of the month. Check the 7 Regional and HD Broadcasting threads.

[JayJay]

As discussed in the DTV Channel Names thread.

DTV Channel Names

‘Channel Launching Soon’ appears on Perth’s channel 17 this morning.

[RetroTvVideos]

In Tasmania 7two, 7mate, 10 bold and 10 peach will be changing to mpeg-4 on the 16th of August.

faq_mpeg4_2022_finalsca.pdf

[2265MHZ]

Great to see. Surprised they’re not taking this chance to launch 7Flix or take 7Mate HD. Nice to see a broadcaster going (almost) completely MPEG4.
Wonder if SCA is gonna follow suit with their other markets?

[TBoy]

@RetroTvVideos

In Tasmania 7two, 7mate, 10 bold and 10 peach will be changing to mpeg-4 on the 16th of August

This will mean that SBS Viceland, SBS World Movies, SBS WorldWatch, 10 Peach, 10 Bold, 10 Shake, 7mate, 7TWO, 9Gem, 9Go and 9Life will all be in MPEG-4 only.

I have a feeling it will be similar to the analog switch off. I could see Regional Queensland next, as 7, 7TWO and 7mate are all in HD only, with the latter two in MPEG-4.

[TV.Cynic]

Not particularly compelling reason/s given for the change in that document. " to improve the quality of the services they deliver to meet consumer demand." Could have mentioned something about better picture and sound quality or to make room for more channels.

[Nicholas]

Interesting change. Don’t see how PQ will be affected much if they’re still SD. Hopefully they’ll use it to launch the additional metro channels into these markets.

[WAtvVideos]

This is a pretty cool experiment. Not only does it show that the networks are willing to work together to get rid of MPEG-2, but that the results from WIN doing the same thing earlier in the year must be positive.

I agree that this would have been a good opportunity to just make them HD instead of SD because we can see with Seven, Ten and SBS that this is where FTA is heading, but it probably would have changed the results they’re after.

[crankymedia]

No Sky regional in Tas?

[2265MHZ]

SCA & WIN only have Sky News on their 10 affiliated stations and it isn’t on any 10 JV stations.

[lovemusic]

Channel 17 is showing ‘new channel launching soon’ on the EPG. No announcements yet on what the channel will be or when it’s launching.

[TelevisionAU]

@lovemusic

Channel 17 is showing ‘new channel launching soon’ on the EPG.

it has been for some weeks now Gecko

[captaincupcake]

Gecko

Advance Warning: little is served by a circular speculative discussion about what the channel will or wont be, or when it will launch (if it hasnt already ) If this thread starts to descend to this, it will be locked until such time that there is something to discuss or we have more information.

Think this advice from the original thread on Channel 17 might be worth highlighting here as well.

[Bort]

Despite this, seems the temptation was too great for some, so I’ve cleaned up some posts. The history section might be a better option for those who wish to remind us of the mid 2000s

Let’s keep it relevant to the topic, please.

[JayJay]

On the TV Tonight Lounge section someone commented that channel 17 has something called “Gecko channel coming soon”. I don’t live in a metro area so I can’t check. Does anyone know?

[TV.Cynic]

Has been discussed here:

Paramount Australia & New Zealand

Just quickly popping in to mention that on my TV here in Sydney channel 17 shows as “gecko” so maybe is going to be a nature channel or strictly Aussie content. [image]