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Oh the answer is if you want 4KTV, who the hell knows what that is?
Oh the answer is if you want 4KTV, who the hell knows what that is?
But I can see I have put you into hyperdrive.
So what if free to air radio goes to DAB over the NBN? How does that reflect on free to air radio?
Do you need an internetconnection to get radio transmitted through the NBN?
I can see why they would want to get rural Australia hooked up first, they will complain the most, because of lack of options.lol
Not quiet the real figures yet, but the overall picture is becoming clearer.It will be very interesting when the real figures come out.
Under the targets, the NBN Co has said it would pass a total of 341,000 homes and businesses (comprising 286,000 existing homes and 55,000 newly built homes) with the fibre portion of the network by June 30. However, as of December 31, only 72,400 premises had been passed.
It is expected that as many as 140,000 premises could now be slashed from that June target.
The revision, however, is not yet a fait accompli, and the NBN Co has this week been engaged in vigorous discussions with its construction partners on ways to ramp up the rollout to still achieve its targets.
4KTV is a new video standard with 4x the resolution of current HDTV. A lot of major movies have been filmed using the standard for the last 5 years or so, but it isn't widely used for broadcast anywhere yet.
There is also an upcoming standard called 8KTV, which, as the name implies is 8x the resolution of current HDTV.
Both standards will allow the adoption of larger and larger "TVs", and also allow user zooming to particular parts of an image with little degradation, depending on the screen size.
Give it 20 years, and you'll probably have a "TV" that fills your entire lounge room wall.
What has FTA radio got to do with the NBN? You could deliver that over the current network, why would the NBN make any difference?
Have you resorted to just making up implausible arguments against the NBN now?
I'm a bit lost here...why would you not want high speed fibre?
As for TV, I can see that it may happen but it will be content, not picture quality, that drives it.
People didn't go to digital TV because there's a better picture. They went digital in order to get extra stations, hence Tasmania had the highest takeup rate for many years since it was the only state with a digital-only mainstream channel.
Likewise it was similar with other things like CD taking over from records and tapes - it wasn't the audio quality but rather the convenience that pushed the change. And then when MP3 largely replaced CD, well that's a decrease in quality but convenience and price has driven the change.
TV via the NBN is quite likely a goer, but I'd expect the actual picture to be 1080 at best and possibly less. It's content that will drive it, not a minor improvement in picture quality.
TDT (Channel 10) was the reason for many to make the switch in Tas, noting that in this part of the world Ten is a "new" station which has only ever broadcast digitally.Tasmania might have good coverage here WA picture quality was what drove me to digital it was night and day.
TDT (Channel 10) was the reason for many to make the switch in Tas, noting that in this part of the world Ten is a "new" station which has only ever broadcast digitally (though in the past the other commercial stations did run some Ten programming which has since been discontinued).Tasmania might have good coverage here WA picture quality was what drove me to digital it was night and day.
The unscheduled announcement–which was expected in early April–was made just as the labour party was embroiled in a bitter leadership spill.
The new NBN fibre cable rollout will fall short of the original corporate plan by about one third from 341,000 homes to between 190,000 and 220,000 homes.
Amongst the din of Labor consumed by itself, the real figures.
Senior engineering lecturer at RMIT University, Mark Gregory, says he expects NBN Co to downgrade its targets even further before the end of the year, which would have flow-on effects for the overall project's timing.
"If we continue down the path that we are going with external contractors doing the rollout, we'd expect [the rollout] could take five to 10 years longer than predicted," Dr Gregory said.
"We should expect it to cost anywhere between 50 to 100 per cent more than before."
Dr Gregory says there is evidence that NBN Co contractors are "cherry-picking" the areas they connect.
"Certainly I believe that we are seeing it happening already with the figures that we are getting from NBN Co," he said.
"The contractors are missing difficult areas, the rollout itself has already been planned as such that only areas that are easy to do are being cherry-picked."
But Dr Gregory says the problems could be fixed if the NBN Co goes ahead with creating its own construction arm to build the network.
A little off topic, but on a local scale, one of the worst examples I've seen of this is the resurfacing of Canning Road (Shire of Kalamunda in Western Australia). Rough as guts from day one. It's worse than the original seal it replaced. This, to the best of my knowledge was a contractor working on behalf of the shire.Just wait until the quality of workmanship problems start to emerge.
Dr Gregory is a little bit "out there". While I agree with one of his points (that it would be a good idea for NBN Co to have their own workforce, at least in part), he has also suggested (seriously) that the Army be conscripted into performing the rollout! http://theconversation.com/the-army-should-rescue-the-nbn-12387
In that article, he criticised NBN Co on the basis of numerous factual errors (eg that they only had one fibre supplier and assorted statistical errors). I'm a little surprised by this. Given his position I would have thought he'd be more familiar with the project. He is also an advocate of NBN Co extending their fibre footprint beyond 93% to (essentially) everyone, and for them to abandon their "cheap" PON system for a much more expensive "point-to-point" fibre system.
Thus, I don't think anti-NBN people should be holding him up as someone to listen to!
I have it on good opinion from one of my Queensland ALP contacts , that the NBN is to be "modified".
This will free up money for the Flood and Cyclone Reconstruction.
The word "scrapped" will not be used.
"Modified" is the buzzword.
One can imagine a Dalek saying it...."Modified, modified, modified"
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PS NBNMyths... how goes the rollout wrt timing and budget. I assume you think everything is ok with your puppy?
Groucho Marx was a very funny man but said a lot of pertinent things
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