Thread: End of an Era....

Those of us on the NSW South Coast will be among the last to have analogue switched off.

About a year ago, I thought that Aldi's $29 set top box was too good a deal to ignore, so I bought one. I had not planned to get one, but I was getting frustrated by the number of times I saw a movie, particularly a classic movie, promoted on ABC or SBS only to discover that it was on ABC2 or SBS2.

I am still watching digital transmissions on a cathode ray tube TV because I have this theory that by the time analogue is switched off in our area, everyone else will already own an LED LCD TV, so the retailers will have to discount them very heavily to move them off their shelves.

I also dislike the idea of throwing out a perfectly good TV. My first one was a B&W Ecko originally bought by my uncle in 1956. I didn't replace it until it died in 1977. The replacement Hitachi lasted until about 1995 when it was becoming troublesome and I was given a cast off by my in laws.

However by the time I decide I would like an LCD TV, it is possible that people will be throwing them out for the council collection because they have bought a 3D TV.

I would not have expected than many people would still be not ready for digital transmission. Maybe I just see so many people updating unnecessarily that I assume I am one of the last to move into the 21st Century.

yeah we have a big philips crt tv with set top box in our other room ...the picture quality I think is better than the hd digital set in our tv room.....and if theres a storm out there sometimes you just cannot watch digital....so on with the old set .....no pixillating.....just pure picture....

We rely on the anal-log tv even if it is crap (pun intended) ... cause our digital reception is crap!


I have never paid for a televison ... we've had hand me downs since we got married (and before) and our current analogue/digital LCD widescreen monster was won on a work suppliers sales promo.


When alanogue is turned off here we're introuble as 30-40% of the time the digital reception is so bad that we loose signal ... hence no picture, or badly pixelated, stuttering viewing ... at least with analogue, regardless of the level of snow, you can still follow the shows plot ... digital provides great holes in the program and you can't follow the plot.

Mrs Fluids tells me quiet often that I've lost the plot, and I dare say she might be right

Originally Posted by Fluids

We rely on the anal-log tv even if it is crap (pun intended) ... cause our digital reception is crap!


I have never paid for a televison ... we've had hand me downs since we got married (and before) and our current analogue/digital LCD widescreen monster was won on a work suppliers sales promo.


When alanogue is turned off here we're introuble as 30-40% of the time the digital reception is so bad that we loose signal ... hence no picture, or badly pixelated, stuttering viewing ... at least with analogue, regardless of the level of snow, you can still follow the shows plot ... digital provides great holes in the program and you can't follow the plot.

Mrs Fluids tells me quiet often that I've lost the plot, and I dare say she might be right

I thought the same as you, old TV plus cheapie set top box, digital was crap with the exisiting high gain VHF/UHF antenna. Eventually I bought a digital-only antenna, mounted it on a new mast 10m from the old one, ran a new cable to our set top box directly. Digital is now 100% reliable, rain, hail, sleet or shine.

yeah, we only moved away from the CRT when it burnt out. At the time I didn't think the new digital picture was anything to rave about and now that we're on digital we suffer with terrible reception that was brilliant under the analogue system.

Our digital reception is crap because the transmitter signal travels a straight path to us via stockton beach/dunes ... the heat and haze off the dunes screws with the digital reception ... the whole area suffers badly because of it.

Already have a good dedicated digital antenna & a vhf/uhf for analogue.

We quiet often have to switch across to analogue because the digital just becomes completley unwatchable. At least it's all in the one tv.

We get slight pauses and pixelation, more during storms. But also when thing like fans are switched on (not off though) or hair dryers are being used. Have new coax throughout plus antenna and amplifiers for it all. Our analogue has become crap post upgrade on antenna etc.

Any suggestions as to the cause of the appliance interference?

Originally Posted by clubagreenie

We get slight pauses and pixelation, more during storms. But also when thing like fans are switched on (not off though) or hair dryers are being used. Have new coax throughout plus antenna and amplifiers for it all. Our analogue has become crap post upgrade on antenna etc.

Any suggestions as to the cause of the appliance interference?

We have the same problem in the Bundaberg area, Every time that is a storm in the Sunshine Coast AKA The Cloudy Coast we lost reception
The antenna and cable were tested and are OK it is the tower that it is @ Biggenden about 90 km west of our place and over 350 km of the next tower.