Got less than $100 in the Gadget kitty right now? You’ve got your choice of gadgets today and tomorrow. First up, Kogan’s selling off its USB recording set digital set top box for $29 as a Friday special. You could plug that set box into the tiny but inexpensive Dick Smith 15-inch $99 TV. If mobile’s more your thing, Gus over at Lifehacker notes that Aldi’s got the Huawei Ideos U8150 on sale tomorrow for $59.99, including $35 worth of call credit. [Kogan and Dick Smith (via Buckscoop) and Lifehacker]
Digital TV offers a whole range of reasons why it’s superior to traditional analogue broadcasts, with the biggest reason being the ability to broadcast high definition. But according to Lauren Wilson at the Australian, 30 per cent of set top boxes in Australian homes are only capable of receiving SD channels. That sucks! More »
The ritual killing off of analogue TV across the country continued yesterday when at 9am, analogue TV transmission equipment was switched off at 21 different locations across regional South Australia and Broken Hill. More »
Back in October last year, there were reports flying around that Seven would name their second digital “Channel Mate”. Today, the network officially launched their third digital channel, “7mate”. I weep for free-to-air TV. More »
Excuse me a moment while I geek out. I was stoked when ABC2 started showing The Colbert Report earlier this year, but now that TV Tonight is reporting that they’re going to be showing The Daily Show at 7:15pm from next Tuesday as well, I think I might have to say goodbye to Foxtel… More »
ACMA doesn’t want the kiddies to be able to watch TV that’s meant for adults, so they’ve decided to develop a parental lock standard for digital TVs. Huzzah for technology! More »
Regular viewers of The Daily Show will understand the deep wells of entertainment that can come from 24-hour news channels. That’s why the ABC’s announcement today that they’re launching a digital 24-hour news channel for Australia is so exciting. Also, they’re going to give us news all day every day. More »
It’s one of those things that you either love or hate about digital TV: you’ve either got a signal or you don’t – unlike analogue, which would give you a snowy half picture if you weren’t exactly in the right position. Of course, with the switchover to digital TV due to be completed by 2013, that might have meant a good deal of rural Australians going without their daily dose of television. That’s why today the government announced a satellite service that would provide digital TV to rural Australians. More »
Yes, your eyes are deceiving you, LG’s not licensed the StarTAC design. Phew. That telescopic antenna doesn’t just harp back to ye olden days though, it also receives a digital TV signal, one of the first US DTV devices. More »
Even though the government decided to kill off analogue TV in Australia by 2013 years ago, it was only this week that they decided that community TV stations would be included in the transition. More »
