ACMA wants to know what you think about Free to Air’s future
What do we want from digital television when the switch-over is completed at the end of 2013?
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The media watchdog is calling for comment from industry and public on the future of Free to Air TV.
The Australian Communications and Media Authority is looking ahead to the landscape after the transition to digital television is completed at the end of 2013.
Future change could include improvements in transmission technologies, data compression and new physical characteristics of receivers such as 3D and ultra high definition screen formats, and more channels of entertainment.
“The ACMA is seeking to garner industry and community comment on the future evolution of digital terrestrial television,” said ACMA Acting Chairman, Richard Bean.
“We’re interested in the drivers of future technological change. Starting the discussion now means the ACMA can consider what, if any, action it might take in the short term to assist in delivering benefits over the next decade and beyond.”
More info is available on ACMA’s website.
Submissions to the discussion paper close on 30 March 2012.
28 Responses
I think the networks are going to create HD Channels for the Main and SD for the other Channels exceptions are ONE, Gem, Go!, 7mate, ABC News24 so they don’t use up their HD Bandwidth.
More FTA channels would be perfect, I reckon a few 24hr movie channels would work a treat. The ABC should launch a finance / Business channel to accompany ABC New 24.
SBS should do a Al Jazeera style 24hr news channel.
More FTA channels please.
I often wonder what overseas visitors think when they throw on TV for the first time in Australia and they get Mash, Knight Rider, The Love Boat and the like. For all of the TV that is being made around the world, its pathetic what these extra digital channels have been filled with.