Category Archives: DTV

Video bitrates for digital TV stations – October 2010

Posted on October 13, 2010 by Stephen Dawson

Back in March this year I set out a list of the video and audio bitrates for digital TV. Since then new channels have been added and some of the stations have reallocated the balance of their available bandwidth. To … Continue reading →

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Quality TV

Posted on October 13, 2010 by Stephen Dawson

The recent proliferation of second and third TV stations for the major broadcasters has brought some interesting material back to our TV screens. There are a lot of broadcast hours to fill up, and low cost content must be especially … Continue reading →

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Another Free-to-air TV station!

Posted on August 30, 2010 by Stephen Dawson

My brother emailed me a link to this PDF announcement from Channel Ten. From early next year it will add to its current regular SD channel and to its One HD sports channel something called ’11’ (my brother wonders if … Continue reading →

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News coming

Posted on July 11, 2010 by Stephen Dawson

Australians, might be a good idea to rescan your digital TV stations, or a least the ABC. I did so this afternoon and ABC 20 HD has now gone. Instead there is ABC 24 HD (720p), which will soon be … Continue reading →

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Side by side

Posted on July 8, 2010 by Stephen Dawson

For those who aren’t in a position to receive any of the 3D TV broadcasts, this is what Simon’s comment to the previous post refers to: The basic TV standards (max resolution of 1920 at 1080i at 50 hertz) can’t be … Continue reading →

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World Cup 3D locations

Posted on June 9, 2010 by Stephen Dawson

SBS has announced the cities and channels on which 3D World Cup matches will be available, along with identifying the fifteen to be shown in that format. These include most of the quarter finals, both semi finals and the final … Continue reading →

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Canberra and the regions lose yet again

Posted on June 7, 2010 by Stephen Dawson

SBS has been advertising how they are going to broadcast some 15 of the World Cup football matches in 3D. A world first, apparently. I have just telephoned them to find out who will get to see them. All capital … Continue reading →

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Video bitrates for digital TV stations

Posted on March 25, 2010 by Stephen Dawson

Rather than doing my usual mini-review for The Canberra Times for this coming Monday, I’ve done a piece on digital TV. Primarily, what it now offers. In preparing for it, I’ve gathered and calculated the basic technical specs for the … Continue reading →

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Digital TV Station timers

Posted on March 15, 2010 by Stephen Dawson

Over the past week or so my PVR has been showing incorrect times on its display. That means that it has an incorrect time in its memory, which in turn means that it will fire itself up to record stuff … Continue reading →

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Anamorphic revisited

Posted on March 7, 2010 by Stephen Dawson

I have a little bit of sympathy for DVD distributors who used pan and scan for some of their titles, at least in the early days. Back then the vast majority of TVs were still 4:3, and that was what … Continue reading →

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