Final Days For Australia's Analog TV

jones_supa writes "The switch to digital TV broadcasts in Australia has entered its final few days, with Sydney's analog signals being fully switched off today, 3 December. That just leaves Melbourne plus remote central and eastern Australia — and those areas will be switched over on 10 December, completing the country's transition to digital TV. The government runs an information site to assist the remaining crusty luddites with the switch-over."

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Re:If you've got good signal, digital is better, b

[mjwx]

Analog degrades better if you're on the fringe.

Digital is pretty much "all or nothing", with freezes, posterizing, etc.. if you've got a bad signal.

If you've got a bad analog signal, you'll get snow and static, but you'll still be able to see what's happening.

But digital goes further, so if you're on the fringe of an analogue signal, you'll get a decent digital signal (well, as long as they're being transmitted from the same approximate location).