Channel 8 is still SD in Canberra.
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Had a look through my TV tonight & have two 9HD Mildura channels.
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I’m gonna place a bet here now. We have these areas covered…
008 9HD Ballarat
008 9HD Mildura
Now I’m going to just call it here like the elections, all other areas: Bendigo, Shepparton, Traralgon and Albury-Wodonga, are all now broadcasting an MPEG-4 HD signal from WIN…
Let’s see if I’m correct, shall we? Calling out to MediaSpy users in Bendigo, Shepparton, Traralgon and Albury-Wodonga to confirm this. Wish me luck…
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A yes in Bendigo, both 8 and 80 are “9HD Bendigo”
I don’t think this thread could take too much more excitement, so I finally got around to - extremely roughly - editing together some clips of the ad breaks on the various WIN services in Mt Gambier.
All of them are a combo of South East and Riverland ads, and the main Nine station seems to get a better standard of ad - but you still get infomercials during the main 9 News.
There’s a few tiny bits of interesting presentation - it seems like there are some WIN sponsor billboards that have the Nine branding and voice over guy, rather than the more common WIN Network ones which seem to still be out of the Ten affiliate era in style. But otherwise, mostly it’s just enjoy some really low budget ads.
And this from 9Go:
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Awesome stuff, mind if I re-upload the low budget regionalised ads for an October 2024 compilation? I’ll happily credit you and link these clips it the description. Thanks. 
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About damn time this happened, MPEG-4 HD has finally replaced MPEG-2 SD.
Looks like it’s time for residents with older TV sets to replace them with newer sets capable of receiving the MPEG-4 signal, or be limited to SC10 for a commercial station.
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WIN Wollongong/Illawarra is now officially in MPEG-4 HD @southernguy.
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Same for 9Canberra on LCN8.
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Channel 8 is now HD in Canberra and Southern NSW.
https://whrl.pl/RgLHPe
It happened overnight per the above Whirlpool forum post by bizzibee.
“Overnight, WIN ceased the SD MPEG-2 simulcast of main of their channel on channel 8 in Wagga Wagga NSW. Channel 8 is now labelled 9HD. Not sure if this change is across all of southern NSW and ACT.”
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Speculation of 9Life upgrade to MPEG-4 HD, as per this Whirlpool user…
hidefdave
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reference: whrl.pl/RgLDwH
posted 2024-Nov-10, 6:49 pm AEST
Checked Ch8 today and lo and behold, it’s now showing as 9HD. Where I am in Western Vic, anyway.
No other changes that I can discern – 9Life is still only in SD and Ch84 is still showing the “new channel coming soon” slide.
Surely 9Life is inline for an HD upgrade now they’ve dispensed with the main channel in SD?
Some may notice that there are two 9HD channels well there are here In Mildura do you think that one of these channels will be shut down a bit silly having two of the same channels simulcasting the same HD channel.
Doesn’t matter as they would be the same channel on different LCNs.
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Need someone with a TS analyser to confirm this.
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Interesting, what show was that from?
20 Years of Convoy. It was also seen on new episodes of Fishing Australia.
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I’m shocked WIN updated their Nine watermark to the flat version. Unless this aired on Nine?
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Yep it aired on Nine - nationally as well.
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