I thought about using the AM stereo analogy, but it did have a bit of an impact here for a few years, though fizzled out after that - plus I have a soft spot for AM stereo … but I never saw a DAT equipped hifi in Australia, I think DAT was a bit more popular with consumers overseas (but not a lot).
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Most likely but I know it was used in the music industry a lot.
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Indeed - professional used reel-to-reel audio recorders had mechanisms to avoid things that happened with the domestic versions, to use an example.
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I’ve still got the “Nine Digital 3D Test Transmission Olympics” channel on one of my TVs from 2012… Which also has some “Prime7 Traralgon” channels (not sure why/how) 
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How? I still remember back in 2013 I got a Samsung tv that was 3d capable and I was so disappointed that I had missed out. lol.
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This one is a Sony Bravia LCD circa 2010 and mustn’t have done a tune (new channels etc must’ve just popped up automatically) while also not removing any channels no longer transmitting. It is also MPEG4, just missing that 2009 technology cut-off period, so has received all new HD and MPEG4-only channels in recent years too, luckily.
Still a great TV, as is a 2009 Panasonic Viera plasma, which is also still going well.
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I have been trying more details on the delays in the commencement of aggregation in the Northern Rivers and New England in late 1991-early 1992. From memory, I recall hearing it was due to a delay in the arrival of transmitting equipment. I believe Prime had a similar issue with its Victorian rollout.
In the Northern Rivers region, NRTV broke away from the Ten schedule for the broadcast of the finals week of Australian Open. Similar arrangements were made for the Victorian regions that were delayed in the Prime rollout
I found this article which touches it, thanks to @TelevisionAU
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I got a Toshiba LCD tv back in 2010 it is MPEG4 and still works today.
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Though thankfully today’s TVs are much thinner, lighter, cheaper and more energy efficient… and a better picture quality as well, but the early 10s TVs were still great for their time.
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Yeah, this was only a 13’’ so not that big but I’m still surprised that it still works. I got Samsung 43’’ 4k tv base model back in 2018 and it only lasted 5 years.
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my Panasonic Viera from 2009-ish still going great guns. Much better than the hi-sense I had before it that I had to get replaced once under warranty and then the replacement one died as well.
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Panasonic make great TV’s my 2011 plasma is still going strong. Unfortunately they don’t sell TV’s anymore in Australia or even in the US.
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RATW started as a weekly 1-hour early evening show (Mondays) in 1982, then gradually expanded to run four nights a week in half-hour episodes by 1984. It wound up early in 1985 ahead of the network’s re-branding as SBS.
Host Basia Bonkowski also hosted another music show, Continental Drift, which (i think?) ran late on Saturday nights, though my memory is a bit sketchy on that.
The week’s episodes of RATW were repeated late on Friday nights (at that stage SBS didn’t really sign-on until mid-late afternoon on weekends and it was usually with kids movies/cartoons or soccer/sport)
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https://x.com/anon_opin/status/1810825019691327794
TV in the 1980s…! Although it was either a random cartoon or Channel 10 in Melbourne would throw on “Rock Profile” to fill in a few minutes which was just a music video
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In Britain, it was public information films/public service announcements being put out in prime time that was a hallmark of the 1970s and 80s.
“I am the Spirit of Dark and Lonely Water…”
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Back when the threat of nuclear war was very real.
YouTube: Adam Martyn
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Nine were doing the gap filler thing until about a decade ago.
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