[LINK] two articles on digital and media and John Howard's govt

[Marghanita da Cruz]

Adam Todd wrote:
> 
> 
> You want a STB that receives broadcast and displays it on a TV or screen 
> :)  Does it matter what colour it is?  It doesn't need a fancy display 
> on the front, you don't watch the display, you watch the TV!
> 
> We've got a couple of STB's now and the more expensive they are the less 
> we've ben satisfied.  The cheapies are good, if they fail, it's only a 
> small amount to toss, which is common today in our disposable world.
> 
> As long as it has a remote control, you are fine :)
> 

I have  an Aldi USB Digital Tuner ($79) which came with a remote
control,MSWindows drivers and software which worked fine. Though, I only
tested reception not recording.

Reception worked better in Inner Sydney & Canberra when plugged into the
existing Antennae, than the desktop one which came with
the device.

The problem with getting this particular device to work on Linux is
getting a driver - but there are others digital TV devices which work
fine with Linux TV software.

At the moment,  I am watching the development of a driver, but there
isn't really any urgency as the only alternative stations to the Analog
ones, in Sydney,  are a NSW Government one (with very limited
programming) and a
Macquarie Bank -finance "education/information" channel.

My brother in-law has a PC Digital TV card and no Television Set in
Newcastle - not sure about the Antennae but it picked up the Newcastle
Digital TV services just fine. I have to confess that after  skepticism
about the quality of the picture, it is better (on his  pc screen at least).

As an aside we gave up on  TV and ochecked out 2nd life - including the
ABC site. This was the day before or maybe
the night the server crashed.

2nd life was pretty ordinary too. In  desperation for what to do in
second life, we discovered our Avatar
could  walk into people but we preferred Sambaring upto them. Until my
sister got  a bit concerned about my brother in-law's Avatar sambering
in front of a girating female Avatar - his story, which I can vouch, for
is that his Avatar just walked in the door of what I think was a Night
Club.

As an aside, it seems the chip in the Aldi USB Digital Tuner will also work
in China - where they have a mobile Broadcasting standard - not sure
what their restrictions are on content or their licensing regime.

M

> 
> At 07:20 PM 7/06/2007, Howard Lowndes wrote:
> 
>> I think part of the problem is knowing what to do.
>>
>> I was looking at a digital STB in Coles today at $59 but I don't have 
>> a clue if it's what I need.  I think I also need a new aerial because 
>> my current one is a multichannel pointing southish, but most UHF ones 
>> I see are pointing northish.  I went looking for either a UHF yagi or 
>> a grid pack and could find neither in the more common stores.
>>
>>
>>
>> Jan Whitaker wrote:
>>
>>> Media policy: pre-election jitters in Canberra
>>> http://www.creative.org.au/webboard/results.chtml?filename_num=140114
>>> <http://www.creative.org.au/webboard/results.chtml?filename_num=153045>Towards 
>>> the big turn-off
>>> http://www.creative.org.au/webboard/results.chtml?filename_num=153045
>>> Events are overtaking digital television, writes MARGARET SIMONS
>>> from this one:
>>> The ACMA figures show that only 17 per cent of the televisions in 
>>> Australia are capable of receiving digital television. Meanwhile 40 
>>> per cent of households don't know digital television is available in 
>>> their area, and a third don't even know the analogue signal will one 
>>> day be switched off.
>>>
>>> Jan Whitaker
>>> JLWhitaker Associates, Melbourne Victoria
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>>> commentary: http://janwhitaker.com/jansblog/
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>>> Learn to love revision. Think of it as polishing the silver for 
>>> guests. - JW, May, 2007
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>>> there is no plant.' - JW, April 2005
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