Interactive digital television will only become a sustainable product if it's fully entrenched into broadcasting practices and deregulated by the government, according to veteran telecommunications analyst Paul Budde.
The Comet & Satellite Cable Group, one of the biggest free-to-air antenna installation companies, is planning an advertising blitz this weekend to boost the roll-out of digital set-top boxes across Australia.
Come the dawn of digital television on New Year's Day, not a single set-top box will be available for distribution in Australia, leading to quarrels within government circles.
Despite the hype surrounding last week's introduction of digital TV and lost sleep over set top box delays, punters appear to be unimpressed at the latest digital phenomena.
Just 150 of the promised 500 digital television set top boxes are currently available in Australia. Worse yet, local retailers remain unsure if they've been allocated any units from the next shipment.
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Might I suggest that the government, which so far has handled the issue with kid gloves, take a chance for once and reach over and just pull the digital TV plug?
While most of the Australian press is going nuts analysing what proposed changes to media ownership laws might mean for their job futures, I want to look at a narrower question: could this pave the way for our first dedicated technology channel on free-to-air TV?
During a trip to the US four years ago, I rented a car fitted with an XM satellite radio which gave me well over 100 radio stations, each carrying a continuous stream of crystal-clear talk radio or music in a surprising array of genres.
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Telstra today detailed plans for its next-generation access technology commercial pilot of Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) on Queensland's Gold Coast later this year.
Some of the first integrated circuits that create a wireless network using the very powerful, and controversial, ultrawideband wireless technique are on their way for testing by device makers.
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Digital content is now available to more than 60% of Australian households delivering news and current affairs programs in the new format. However there's no need to rush out and spend a small fortune on a digital TV just yet.
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