If you happen to live in the Mildura area, tomorrow is D-Day. Or Digital day, as I’ve decided to officially start calling it. If you haven’t upgraded your home theatre system to include a digital tuner, either in built in your TV or via a set-top box, then you might be seeing a whole heap of nothing tomorrow as the broadcasters switch off the analogue TV broadcasts.
Mildura is the first area of the country to go all digital, all the time, ahead of the complete analogue switch off in 2013. As Gus over at Lifehacker points out, expect the media coverage to focus on some pensioner who somehow missed the fact they’d need some new hardware to keep watching TV. But on the whole, not much is going to change at all with the switchover.
Anyone from Mildura, feel free to tell us about the switchover in comments.
matt
Tuesday, June 29, 2010 at 2:20 PMso do we get more awesome wireless internet (or I should say, do we START getting awesome wireless internet) once the analogue signal is turned off?
norp
Tuesday, June 29, 2010 at 3:13 PMI just looked it up and the capitals all have to wait until mid/late 2013 for their analog signals to switch off.
The next ones on the block are a bunch of regional SA.
The pdf is here:
http://www.dbcde.gov.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/0007/88108/Digital_TV_Timetable_by_Region_-_Updated.pdf
Steve G
Tuesday, June 29, 2010 at 7:20 PMThe digital transmitters both in Mildura and elsewhere have been on the air for ages. A big deal is being made over a little event.
The only issue will be viewers unwilling or unable to update their TV sets and more importantly their antenna systems.
Heath
Wednesday, June 30, 2010 at 9:58 AMYep, digital covers most of Australia and has done so for a while now, the article wasn’t about that tho. It’s a big deal because it’s the beginning of the end for analogue TV in Australia, it’s the test area for the rest of the nation now.
Chris
Wednesday, June 30, 2010 at 7:01 PMYep… the local news channel made a big deal about the switchover and how great it was. Too bad said local channel doesn’t send a decent digital image (it looks like 90′s VHS), or show decent content.
Adro
Wednesday, June 30, 2010 at 11:04 PMYeah, not such a big deal here in mildy… One of the channels has a screen message with that awfully jolly little tv guys telling you that pretty much if you don’t get a new tv, you’re screwed. Haha.
Mildura Web Design
Saturday, July 3, 2010 at 10:06 PMMildura…. we’re the guinea pigs of australia apparently :p