Moasaica Posted April 1, 2005 Posted April 1, 2005 With Prime & Southern Cross Tasmania apparently going 1080i HD and Seven broadcasting 576p "HD", it would seem that moving to regional areas of Australia & Tasmania would become an attractive option for HD box owners. Comments are welcome and specify which regional area you want to live in.
Trainspotter Posted April 1, 2005 Posted April 1, 2005 To be completely honest, if you go to the trouble of moving house (and career and friends!) solely for the sake of obtaining one HD channel (with limited HD programming at a low bit-rate) then you seriously need to re-evaluate your priorities in life!
anthonysimilion Posted April 2, 2005 Posted April 2, 2005 Exactly. 1080i on the Seven Network is definitely welcome in the rest of Australia - but I doubt you'll find many people willing to move house just for it.
Moasaica Posted April 2, 2005 Author Posted April 2, 2005 To be completely honest, if you go to the trouble of moving house (and career and friends!) solely for the sake of obtaining one HD channel (with limited HD programming at a low bit-rate) then you seriously need to re-evaluate your priorities in life! <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Yes, it does involve moving houses and having to have your routine being re-evaluated. But moving from a big city to a regional area does have its priorities inc. affordable real estate prices, quieter lifestyle and cheaper cost of living. Exactly. 1080i on the Seven Network is definitely welcome in the rest of Australia - but I doubt you'll find many people willing to move house just for it. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> They don't have to for those living in many parts of Sydney. They'll just need a UHF antenna pointed towards Wollongong and they'll all be set to watch their favourite Seven programs on Prime's glorious 1080i HD unlike Seven's 576p "HD". People in Melbourne's South-East could get Prime from the Latrobe Valley when it eventually start broadcasting on Digital, and parts of Geelong could get Prime from Ballarat when its digital transmission start. This could be the case that a regional counterpart has better HD than its metro counterpart.
laurie Posted April 3, 2005 Posted April 3, 2005 1080i on the Seven Network is definitely welcome in the rest of Australia - but I doubt you'll find many people willing to move house just for it. Yeh especially if they decide to revert to 576p which is quite on the cards then what " For Sale " !! cheers laurie
kootaberra Posted April 3, 2005 Posted April 3, 2005 With Prime & Southern Cross Tasmania apparently going 1080i HD and Seven broadcasting 576p "HD", it would seem that moving to regional areas of Australia & Tasmania would become an attractive option for HD box owners.Comments are welcome and specify which regional area you want to live in. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> If Prime is re-transmitting Seven's "ED", then I would be surprised if it's 1080i, but instead 576p resolution. Seven only uses 576p as a TX operational format, not 1080. I would like to see a grab of a program ex-seven.
rochford Posted April 3, 2005 Posted April 3, 2005 If Prime is re-transmitting Seven's "ED", then I would be surprised if it's 1080i, but instead 576p resolution. Seven only uses 576p as a TX operational format, not 1080. I would like to see a grab of a program ex-seven.<{POST_SNAPBACK}> Wouldn't we all?!? Hopefully we'll see sometime this week, especially now that the ratings period has recommenced. - Miles.
bellotv Posted April 3, 2005 Posted April 3, 2005 Yes, it does involve moving houses and having to have your routine being re-evaluated. But moving from a big city to a regional area does have its priorities inc. affordable real estate prices, quieter lifestyle and cheaper cost of living. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Depends wher you move to If you moved up to mid north coast Employment may be your main problem apart from the fact that we still only have ABC & SBS on digital and won't be getting Prime until Oct-Dec . I'm also fairly sure that we don't have any HD transmissions on ABC or SBS yet either.
Moasaica Posted April 3, 2005 Author Posted April 3, 2005 Another thing is move to a regional area that is within commuting distance to the big city. This ensures that people who already have jobs in the city, but want to move to a regional area without changing jobs, can do so, as long as its not too far away from it. For Sydney: the Central Coast, Blue Mountains, Southern Highlands and Wollongong. The Blue Mountains is in the Sydney TV Coverage Area but is being able to get Wollongong TV Reception. The Central Coast has the best of both worlds with both metro & regional channels transmitting from the translators scattered across the area. The Southern Highlands & Wollongong is completely in the Regional TV zone. Shame that property prices in all areas mentioned have gone up & become unaffordable for many people from Sydney's Western/South-Western Suburbs to move to. Melbourne: Geelong, Ballarat & West Gippsland. While Geelong is in the Melbourne viewing area, it is the 2nd largest city in Victoria. Only parts of Geelong could get Ballarat channels. Ballarat is also within commuting distance and is in the Regional TV zone. The area around Warragul in West Gippsland is in both Melbourne & Regional TV zones. Property prices in Geelong, Ballarat & West Gippsland are considerably affordable in comparison to Melbourne. Brisbane: The Gold Coast, Sunshine Coast & Toowoomba. The Gold Coast has the best of both worlds when it comes to a choice between metro & regional channels. The southern part of the Sunshine Coast around Caloundra has it too, but areas around Maroochydore would only get the regional channels. Toowoomba, being high in elevation, can get the Brisbane channels along with the regionals, which are local for Toowoomba. Like areas around Sydney, the Gold Coast & Sunshine Coast have increased in property prices and become unaffordable for some if not many, although Toowoomba is still relatively affordable. That was just an insight into Australia's three largest cities with their surrounding regional areas. Hope it might evaluate your lifestyle without much of a change of job, whichever city you live.
datvman Posted April 4, 2005 Posted April 4, 2005 The sunshine coast and toowoomba have 7 QLD. This is owned by 7, and alas, offers 576p for HD. The only places to have Prime are NSW and VIC, with GWN offered in WA
Moasaica Posted April 4, 2005 Author Posted April 4, 2005 The sunshine coast and toowoomba have 7 QLD. This is owned by 7, and alas, offers 576p for HD. The only places to have Prime are NSW and VIC, with GWN offered in WA <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Prime also services the Gold Coast. This means if you work in Brisbane & want to move out of the city but still be within commuting distance, and have good 1080i HD to watch your favourite programs on Seven (through Prime), then the Gold Coast is the place to be. It is one of the largest cities in Australia, but within commuting distance to Brisbane. Some of the oddities between Prime & Seven is that Prime takes Seven News from Sydney while Seven takes its news from Brisbane. The same story between SC Ten (taking the Sydney bulletin) & Ten (taking the Brisbane bulletin). NBN has its own local/national/international nightly bulletin with local stories pre-recorded in Newcastle. But the only 'truly' local news service for the Gold Coast is Nine Gold Coast News, weeknights at 5:30pm, followed by National Nine News Brisbane at 6pm.
BlueDusk Posted April 4, 2005 Posted April 4, 2005 I'll just do a "chuck any ol' UHF aerial out the balcony" and get myself Wollongong goodness from Sydney.
BlueDusk Posted April 4, 2005 Posted April 4, 2005 Some of the oddities between Prime & Seven is that Prime takes Seven News from Sydney while Seven takes its news from Brisbane. The same story between SC Ten (taking the Sydney bulletin) & Ten (taking the Brisbane bulletin). NBN has its own local/national/international nightly bulletin with local stories pre-recorded in Newcastle. But the only 'truly' local news service for the Gold Coast is Nine Gold Coast News, weeknights at 5:30pm, followed by National Nine News Brisbane at 6pm. Is that because Prime/SC10 are broadcasting w/a Northern NSW licence into the GC?
Moasaica Posted April 4, 2005 Author Posted April 4, 2005 Is that because Prime/SC10 are broadcasting w/a Northern NSW licence into the GC? <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Yes, that's it. It also ensures to avoid duplication of news programming in the Gold Coast. The Metro channels (inc. ABC) take the Brisbane news while the regionals take the Sydney news, with the exception of NBN who have their own news service. Perhaps it be of benefit for AFL fans in the Gold Coast to have have NBN broadcast Friday Night AFL while Nine has NRL. It happened on Prime in the Gold Coast when Seven had the rights to AFL (pre-2001). Seven showed programming, while Prime showed AFL on a Friday night. It's currently happened on Saturday nights when SC Ten showed AFL while Ten shows Saturday night programming.
datvman Posted April 6, 2005 Posted April 6, 2005 You obviously haven't lived down the coast have you. Its a bottleneck on the Pac Motorway and M1 all the way from about nerang to the city. No thanks. I know a guy who travels from Bribie Is. to Brisbane everyday. He leaves at 6am, gets to brisbane at 9.30, then leaves at 3 to get home about 7pm. Stuff that i say, i prefer to keep my sanity and live in brisbane, coudn't careless about HD anyway. If you move out that way just for HD, then you obviously have no life
Moasaica Posted April 6, 2005 Author Posted April 6, 2005 You obviously haven't lived down the coast have you. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> No, I haven't. I've never been to the Gold Coast either. Its a bottleneck on the Pac Motorway and M1 all the way from about nerang to the city. No thanks. I know a guy who travels from Bribie Is. to Brisbane everyday. He leaves at 6am, gets to brisbane at 9.30, then leaves at 3 to get home about 7pm. Stuff that i say, i prefer to keep my sanity and live in brisbane, coudn't careless about HD anyway. If you move out that way just for HD, then you obviously have no life <{POST_SNAPBACK}> It's a similar story between Sydney & the Central Coast. The F3 is often congested in peak hour, especially on Fridays, with only one alternative route, the Pacific Highway. Towards Wollongong, there's no freeway between Eastern Distributor (Airport) & Waterfall where the F6 starts, so you had to go through so many traffic lights along the way. The Southern Highlands is probably the only area is directly connected by the freeway (M5), but its quite congested in peak hour. The Blue Mountains has the M4 which goes between Concord and Emu Plains, but is congested in peak hour (obviously ). It's one of the lessons learned about commuting from outlying areas to the city. You have to cope with lots of traffic and longer travelling times. I think the same would apply when commuting by train.
klomp Posted April 6, 2005 Posted April 6, 2005 Congestion? Peak hour? Commuting? What are these things you are talking of?
Moasaica Posted April 6, 2005 Author Posted April 6, 2005 Congestion? Peak hour? Commuting?What are these things you are talking of? <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Seeing you're a Tasmanian, klomp, I'll explain something to you. Big cities like Sydney, Melbourne & Brisbane have traffic a big form of traffic congestions known as peak hour. From what I know, Hobart has a period of traffic congestions known as 'Peak Minute'. That is some of the advantages of living in Tasmania along with affordable housing & its climate being relatively free of extreme summer temperatures which wreaks havoc across various parts of the mainland during summer from time to time. That is why my parents wanted to move to Tasmania if they could move out to Sydney (where we live). My parents and myself are sick of the summer heat that we endured in just about every summer. In particular, the humidity during the summer in Sydney is quite sticky, and my parents & I don't fell comfortable about it. When my parents would eventually move to Tasmania, they wouldn't have to complain about the summer heat anymore.
datvman Posted April 6, 2005 Posted April 6, 2005 A funny story about "Peak Hour." In the small town of Grafton in NSW, I was driving in the morning, around 8am and local radio 2GF announced that there was heavy traffic on the bridge and that traffic was banked up for miles. The traffic was stopped because of a semi trailer convoy and the banked up traffic was all of 2 cars .
dkint3 Posted April 6, 2005 Posted April 6, 2005 In the small town of Grafton in NSW, I was driving in the morning around 8am and local radio 2GF announced that there was heavy traffic on the bridge and that traffic was banked up for milesThe traffic was stopped because of a semi trailer convoy and the banked up traffic was all of 2 cars Perhaps 2GF had aired the 2SM Sydney traffic report by mistake and it was about the Harbour Bridge ?? (as 2GF takes a fair chunk of its programming from 2SM including news I think). Now, a question about Prime's HD programming apparently being 1080i rather than 576i as per Seven. I would have thought that Prime would dependant on Seven's HD digital feed for re-transmission, which I imagine would be 576i as transmitted by Seven, so how would Prime be able to convert it to 'true' 1080i ? If Seven are indeed sending Prime a true 1080i feed, why doesn't Seven transmit this.. it's already there!!
bellotv Posted April 6, 2005 Posted April 6, 2005 The pleasures of regional Australia has to include our 32kb modem speed (on a good connection) and sometimes we can get mobile recieption if your on the right hill.But apart from that ......
anthonysimilion Posted April 8, 2005 Posted April 8, 2005 I'm sure Seven could very easily broadcast 1080i if they wanted to - they're got most of the necessary equipment, AFAIK.
Fusspot Posted April 8, 2005 Posted April 8, 2005 I'm intrigued by the title of this thread. Regional areas of Australia AND Tasmania??? Last time I looked in the history books Tasmania was considered part of regional Australia and not some sort of irrelevant piece of real estate. Come on down (regardless of what is being broadcast into our homes) - you don't know what you're missing, and contrary to sometimes popular perception we don't have two heads. We are friendly and the scenery is fantastic, and the climate honestly isn't all that bad (West coast excluded). Cheers, Fusspot
datvman Posted April 8, 2005 Posted April 8, 2005 In the small town of Grafton in NSW, I was driving in the morning around 8am and local radio 2GF announced that there was heavy traffic on the bridge and that traffic was banked up for miles The traffic was stopped because of a semi trailer convoy and the banked up traffic was all of 2 cars Perhaps 2GF had aired the 2SM Sydney traffic report by mistake and it was about the Harbour Bridge ?? (as 2GF takes a fair chunk of its programming from 2SM including news I think). Now, a question about Prime's HD programming apparently being 1080i rather than 576i as per Seven. I would have thought that Prime would dependant on Seven's HD digital feed for re-transmission, which I imagine would be 576i as transmitted by Seven, so how would Prime be able to convert it to 'true' 1080i ? If Seven are indeed sending Prime a true 1080i feed, why doesn't Seven transmit this.. it's already there!! <{POST_SNAPBACK}> It was Ritchie Williamson* who announced the traffic report, and last time i checked, the Harbour Bridge wasn't referred to as the "Bendy" bridge. * - Ritchie Williamson is the morning announcer on 1206/103.9 2GF Clarence Coast. http://www.1206am.com.au
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