Digital TV Australia

This is a JPEG 72dpi version of the poster freely available at scifi.com/battlestar.

Doomsday Labs has an article on Digital TV this morning, in the context of America. Well here in Australia the government has been pushing Digital TV as well, and I welcome it. Sometime in the near future we'll be losing Analog and Digital will be the only available medium for mainstream free TV.

Advantages like more channels, and the ability for stations to easily setup new channels is the main thing that interests me. For too long Australia has been limited to providing content for the main stereotype of TV watchers. Stations like TEN, Seven and Nine have only 24 hours a day to display content, and there is much more content available than what can fit into the primetime slots. For Australian's like myself that prefer TV shows that aren't the mainstream interest, like Battlestar Galactica, it means we don't really get to see our favourite TV shows, leaving us with no option to wait for DVD releases.

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