[LINK] digital TV conversion - psychology of the consumer

[David Boxall]

At 9/08/2007 9:49 AM Marghanita da Cruz wrote:
> To put this all in the best possible light - the Government has an 
> obligation to protect the value of the spectrum/existing business 
> interests. In the worst possible light they are opting for the status 
> quo in Media.
>
Maybe the incumbents are the reason for poor takeup of digital TV. From 
where I am, I can receive programming from Newcastle (all UHF) and 
Sydney (VHF only).  Sometimes, signal quality is abominable.  I'd 
attributed that to local interference, until I noticed that the 
commercial stations were transmitting garbage (the programs may have 
been bad, but the signal quality was worse) while ABC and SBS came 
through crystal clear.  What I found particularly interesting was that, 
on occasions, one commercial network was transmitting poor quality 
signals from both Sydney and Newcastle while the other commercial 
networks' signal quality was good.

Are the commercial networks deliberately fouling the digital TV waters?

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