The switchoff of analogue TV has been long coming, but with digital spectrum awash in home-shopping channels and the ‘digital dividend’ falling short of mobile expectations, is it really the success we were led to believe it would be?
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This isn’t what digital TV was supposed to be
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Published December 11, 2013
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When all the promised benefits of digital TV were being bandied about a decade ago, I don’t recall anybody arguing that this major transition was necessary just so Australians could be exposed to an avalanche of television shopping channels — but that’s exactly where we are as we begin our first day in nearly 60 years without an analogue TV broadcast being on the air.
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