I think they have upped it to maximum 50Mbits to match what they now offer for fixed line NBN as Telstra did with their remaining HFC customer base, of course Telstra also upped the return path to 5Mbits while Optus have kept the standard 2.5Mbits return parth speed, a friend has standard Optus HFC and now gets minimum 48Mbits down.
Does not bother me, I have had premium speed pack (mind you FREE) 100Mbits/2.5Mbits now since oh gees what 2012? when Optus issued me with the DOCSIS 3.0 CISCO DPQ 3925 cable modem, simply put it into bridge mode (which was harder than it should of been thanks to Optus removing the option to do it via HTML web code) and connected via ethernet to a TP-LINK WiFi N Dual Band Router which pumps out 300Mbits on 2.4GHz (using WiFi Channel 6) and 300Mbits on 5GHz (using High Power WiFi channel 149), looking at my link speed for 2.4GHz its bang 300Mbits and for 5GHz its 120Mbits at a distance away from the router of about 40 meters.
Looking at NBN Co website my street has again been changed again (for the 3rd time this year), HFC is still the technology choice offered (I can get Telstra HFC right now if need be but really they have nothing that is beating what I am getting now with exception to mobile 4G LTE, Optus is awful in this region on that front if you don’t have ability to lock network bands it reverts to crappy 2.3GHz LTE, reminds me of Galaxy then Tarbs at how spotty that network band is ) now reporting October to December 2020 … geesh on one hand Im happy to be still with Optus HFC on the other hand its pissing me off that NBN Co can’t offer HFC to me right now even though I could get Telstra HFC tomorrow.
For some reason ABC has waited until now to put up a clip of its news coverage from when Prime Minister Harold Holt was feared drowned. It would have been probably of more interest at the actual 50th anniversary late year.
Sydney newsreader is Rod McNeil followed by a live cross to Bob Willcox in Melbourne presenting live in a five-state linkup, probably quite rare at the time.
Interesting the difference between the Melbourne and Sydney studios - with the predominantly dark coloured one in Melbourne - which looks like it’d be easier to do those kind of graphic overlays on to?
One line that stood out is “about now, eastern time” - surely ‘now’ isn’t timezone dependent. It might make sense if there’s a tape delay, but I wouldn’t have thought they’d have one.
I mean most of people inside this thread (including me, and, maybe, @TelevisionAU, and #myfriends) may haven’t seen this logo yet (These may only had seen the variant with the word GTS/BKN, rather than number 7 like this, #myfriends)
Eric Walters - probably my favourite newsreader. There was something strange going on with the audio at Ten Sydney here - a lot of echo on the music. LOVED this set.
I’m sure it’s been seen before but here’s a short promo from Seven, 2/10/2000:
Again, the questions have to be asked: Did the dots (which appear to be little more than a piece of cardboard wrapped around a light) actually do anything? If they didn’t do anything (as I suspect), how were the winners of prizes selected?
From what I can tell, it was Seven’s attempt to keep viewers after the 2000 Olympics.
Nine’s response to “Adopt A Dot” appeared to be a $1 Million Cash Giveaway with 20 prizes of $50,000 given away…presumably over the first 20 nights of October 2000 or something like that (from 0:12 of this clip):
Interestingly, it appears that it wasn’t using some fancy electronic means of activation. It appeared to be a film strip which changed colour when exposed to light. The company TV-miles and Channel 7 all claimed that it was extremely important that the dots remain on the screen for the duration of whatever program they wanted you to watch due to their uber fancy encoding system which apparently adjusts itself to the TV screen it’s displayed on (no matter the size or brightness of the screen).
I reckon it was all a bunch of snake oil, and I would put $100 on the ‘activation’ of these dots relying solely on exposure to a bright light (i.e. a TV screen), and it would not matter whether you were watching Channel 7 or the ABC…or if you just popped it next to a 100W light bulb.
The fact that you can’t actually verify whether a dot is activated or not until the prize draw makes it impossible for anyone to refute the promoters’ claims.
Here’s an article about it:
Here’s an article in Portugese (you can probably translate it online yourself easily) which reports on an ‘adopt a dot’ campaign in Portugal:
and here’s another Portugese article which seems to allege that people were sceptical that the dot was able to detect what exactly you were watching.
) now reporting October to December 2020 … geesh on one hand Im happy to be still with Optus HFC on the other hand its pissing me off that NBN Co can’t offer HFC to me right now even though I could get Telstra HFC tomorrow.
