Adelaide switches to digital
Adelaide bids 'bye bye' to analogue television today.
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Adelaide bids ‘bye bye’ to analogue television today.
The city is arguably the largest single population thus far to make the permanent switch to digital television.
“At 9am, over 560,000 households in Adelaide switched to digital-only TV, as analog signals across the Adelaide switchover region were switched off,” Senator Conroy said today.
“I would like to thank the local broadcasters for their support and assistance and congratulate Adelaide on a very smooth transition to digital-only free-to-air TV.
“Adelaide is the seventh region in Australia to switch to digital-only free to air television, meaning Australia is well on the way to watching digital-only television by the end of this year.”
Aside from Canberra in June last year, Adelaide is the first capital city to switch over. That probably means there will still be people caught in the cracks.
It also means the city will struggle to cope with the sheer volume of waste hardware. There are some SA recycling centres here.
Geoff Laver says his collection centre at North Plympton has been inundated in the past few days.
“Yesterday morning I reckon I got 200 in an hour,” he told ABC.
“It would be thousands. We usually fill up a skip a day, but this is two skips, three skips a day now.”
Two more big chunks of our country will also switch over this month:
Tasmania: April 9
Perth: April 16
Brisbane: May 28
Darwin: July 30
Sydney: December 3
Melbourne: December 10
Most TV Tonight readers have made the switch (duh), but if you’re in Adelaide let us hear if there are any issues?
2 Responses
It’s such a shame that we have to get rid of our analogue tvs. We have a really good old tv that has not even got a spot to plug in a set top box so bye bye to a perfectly good tv. I personally do not like digital, so many hassles but I won’t go on.
the only issue has been the dozens of tvs scattered on the medium strip especially post Christmas it looked like every man and his dog got a digital tv for xmas.