[AusNOG] My Predictions for the ISP Industry

[Darren Moss]

Yeah that is a bit of a bugger. I grew up in Newcastle so I understand what it's like to have marginal television reception from Sydney :)

We spent a lot of time and $$ boosting signals, then along came local broadcasts for the capital city networks..... but I had moved to Sydney before that happened. I'm sure digital radio will take the same path for regional listeners just as digital TV is doing.

I spend a lot of time at my Auckland home and see that digital is the way things are going, even if it means satellite dishes everywhere.

How does Sirius do it with in-car hybrid satellite and FM ??

Regards, 
 
 
Darren.

-----Original Message-----
From: Mark Andrews [mailto:marka at isc.org] 
Sent: Thursday, 15 March 2012 12:41 PM
To: Scott Howard
Cc: Darren Moss; Mark Delany; ausnog at lists.ausnog.net
Subject: Re: [AusNOG] My Predictions for the ISP Industry


In message <CACnPsNW9GAtEcQP_S_4vK0DGH9p8x_J8BMyhS0Mwi6LtPE+CcA at mail.gmail.com>
, Scott Howard writes:
> On Wed, Mar 14, 2012 at 5:30 PM, Darren Moss <Darren.Moss at em3.com.au> wrote:
> 
> > Why is this change not handled like analogue to digital radio ?
> >
> 
> Presuming you mean TV and not radio, then from a US perspective are 
> you suggesting that :
> * The government should subsidies everyone $50 to buy a new 
> modem/router/etc
> * The government should force people to stop using IPv4 after a fixed 
> period of changeover
> 
> Those are the only two reasons that the US analogue to digital 
> changeover was even close to successful, and that's in a country where 
> a minority of people actually have over-the-air terrestrial TV (as 
> opposed to cable/satellite).
> 
> Scaling that to the entire planet?  Not going to happen...
> 
>   Scott.

Analog to digital TV conversion is taking place here.  The analog signal has already been turn off in many parts of the country.  I've got friends in the middle of nowhere and instead of getting a fuzzy analog signal they often get no digital signal that's despite living on the highest point for miles around and having the antena at the
top of a tower.   The broadcast towers are, literally, over the
horizon.

Mark
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