I suspect Sevens compression antics are due to sport multichannelling. ABC and SBS also have a lot of bandwidth taken up by ABC 2, SBS 2, various radio services over DVB-T. (In Australia the government owned broadcasters, ABC and SBS, can multi channel under certain restrictions. Commercial ones currently can only multi channel for sport events)
And as Andrew notes, its never been taken seriously by 7. Most of the country is [probably] on $50 SDTV boxes anyway. (From what I understand, the US has pushed for HDTV preferred over the air from the start. In Aus we've pushed for SDTV for the masses, then HDTV, as there are rampant interference problems relating to analogue transmissions of various channels. )
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I suspect Sevens compression antics are due to sport multichannelling.
ABC and SBS also have a lot of bandwidth taken up by ABC 2, SBS 2, various radio services over DVB-T.
(In Australia the government owned broadcasters, ABC and SBS, can multi channel under certain restrictions. Commercial ones currently can only multi channel for sport events)
And as Andrew notes, its never been taken seriously by 7. Most of the country is [probably] on $50 SDTV boxes anyway.
(From what I understand, the US has pushed for HDTV preferred over the air from the start. In Aus we've pushed for SDTV for the masses, then HDTV, as there are rampant interference problems relating to analogue transmissions of various channels. )