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.
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.
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.
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.”
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.
I see, thankyou.
Wonder if the spare bandwidth they now have will be used to convert 9Life to HD or they carry 9Rush on an additional LCN?
Do Seven Regional and WIN9 need to keep LCN60/80 active anymore?
Networks seem to generally have the duplicate up there to ensure that when you’re flipping with the channel up/down buttons you have all the channels from the network together. Makes it look nicer in an EPG view as well if you press the guide to see all the channels together rather than next to the competition.
Given it’s of no cost to do it, the benefits seem to stack up. Especially as a lot of people who appreciate decent picture quality will long have trained themselves to punch in channel 80 etc for the HD version.
There’s also the minor benefit of assisting those with DVRs who have done channel based schedules, but obviously that’s a fading market.
