http://hd.engadget.com/2009/01/03/australias-seven-nine-and-ten-not-leaping-to-add-new-digital-c/ Engadget HD Comments for Australia's Seven, Nine and Ten not leaping to add new digital channels http://hd.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://hd.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2010 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://hd.engadget.com/2009/01/03/australias-seven-nine-and-ten-not-leaping-to-add-new-digital-c/http://hd.engadget.com/2009/01/03/australias-seven-nine-and-ten-not-leaping-to-add-new-digital-c/Jan 3rd 2009 5:07PMhttp://hd.engadget.com/2009/01/03/australias-seven-nine-and-ten-not-leaping-to-add-new-digital-c/http://hd.engadget.com/2009/01/03/australias-seven-nine-and-ten-not-leaping-to-add-new-digital-c/
It will suck even more when those ducks swimming on a lake become pixelated ducks swimming on blocks as each network rams another stream onto an already overcompressed mux.

Akin to NBC with their useless weather stations and PBS with their sub streams.

"New" digital channels (ie repeated standard definition crap) = death of HDTV in Australia]]>Jan 3rd 2009 7:29PMhttp://hd.engadget.com/2009/01/03/australias-seven-nine-and-ten-not-leaping-to-add-new-digital-c/http://hd.engadget.com/2009/01/03/australias-seven-nine-and-ten-not-leaping-to-add-new-digital-c/Jan 3rd 2009 7:39PMhttp://hd.engadget.com/2009/01/03/australias-seven-nine-and-ten-not-leaping-to-add-new-digital-c/http://hd.engadget.com/2009/01/03/australias-seven-nine-and-ten-not-leaping-to-add-new-digital-c/By the way there are 5 free to air network divisions, all 5 have been allocated 2 HD channels now, 3 of the networks are commercial.
1) ABC and ABC 2
2) SBS, SBS News, SBS 2
3) Ten SD and Ten HD
4) Nine SD and Nine HD
5) Seven SD and Seven HD
The other channels are on Fox/Austar and Optus networks. (Cable/Satellite)
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I would love to believe this news. Do you have a link to confirm this info about 2 x HD channels for each network? And whether they have to squeeze it into their existing bandwidth, or whether they get allocated more bandwidth on another frequency?]]>Jan 4th 2009 12:49AM