I've emailed this question to the government too, but I thought ExploreOz would have a people with a wealth of knowledge, some of whom are already familiar with
satellite TV due to the travels and perhaps you can give me some idea on the topiic.
Basically in Townsville and
Darwin we had the digital
TV set up, small LCD telly with a set top box, just standard definition. I thihough it was great with one of those topfield recorders.
Then we moved to
Cobar NSW, I think only one channel was broadcast...or planning to be int he who knows how long down the track future so we sold the toppy and hte stb, but of course we still have a little telly.
Then we moved here,
Nannup WA, we have our own little 7.5ac of peaceful bush and had to dish out $900 for a
satellite TV set up just to watch telly, and of course we 're limited to the regional WA channels (some eastern ABC and SBS as
well), one would think that having paid that grand some I could have watched all the FTA chanels that were available even from over east, I mean as if I'm going to buy from a
Sydney adveritser over a local one...yeah I'll just hop in my car, be
home in a week Darling..... make it two weeks.
Anyway getting to the point,
Satellite TV I imagine is already broadcast digitally, but I know we don't receive digital channels like SBS2 etc. So when everyone else switches over what happens to the rural people and travelers? Is there some way to hook up a set top box to the sat
tv? Or will the
satellite tv companies simply be able to broadcast the new channels through the sat
tv system? If so why don't they broadcast some already?
I do love living in the bush, but I like to stay on top of current technology as
well! I'm so looking forward to getting the
satellite broadband installed in Jan after having been on half speed dialup for 2yrs!
Sorry for the rant and rave, I generally do waffle on too much.