Full Report: Digital Television: Who's Buying

Full Report: Digital Television: Who's Buying

The Parliament of the Commonwealth of Australia Digital Television: Who’s Buying It? Inquiry into the uptake of Digital Television in Australia House of Representatives Standing Committee on Communications, Information, Technology and the Arts February 2006 Canberra © Commonwealth of Australia 2006 ISBN 0 642 78743 3 Contents Foreword.................................................................................................................................ix Membership of the Committee................................................................................................xi Terms of reference................................................................................................................xiii List of abbreviations ...............................................................................................................xv List of recommendations.......................................................................................................xix THE REPORT 1 Introduction ...........................................................................................................1 Background to the inquiry........................................................................................................ 2 Structure of the report.............................................................................................................. 3 2 Digital television in Australia...............................................................................5 What is digital television? ........................................................................................................ 5 Benefits of digital television......................................................................................................... 6 Pictures................................................................................................................................... 7 Sound ..................................................................................................................................... 7 Widescreen............................................................................................................................. 7 Spectrum use.......................................................................................................................... 8 Multichannelling ...................................................................................................................... 8 Datacasting............................................................................................................................. 8 Interactivity.............................................................................................................................. 9 Standard Definition and High Definition digital television ........................................................ 9 Standard Definition ......................................................................................................... 9 High Definition .............................................................................................................. 10 iv Why was DTV introduced?........................................................................................................ 10 Policy and legislation background........................................................................................ 12 Legislative framework ............................................................................................................... 12 Australian Government Reviews............................................................................................... 16 Digital television rollout ......................................................................................................... 17 Rollout planning ........................................................................................................................ 18 Rollout progress........................................................................................................................ 18 Broadcasters......................................................................................................................... 21 Regional rollout..................................................................................................................... 22 Potential problems in achieving rollout...................................................................................... 23 Interference management..................................................................................................... 24 Digital television coverage ........................................................................................................ 25 Take-up rates in Australia ......................................................................................................27 Measuring take-up .................................................................................................................... 27 DBA data............................................................................................................................... 27 Sales of digital receivers to retailers ............................................................................. 28 Television home take-up............................................................................................... 29 Converted television sets.............................................................................................. 30 ACMA data............................................................................................................................ 31 GfK Australia data................................................................................................................. 32 Why is take-up slow? ................................................................................................................ 33 No additional benefits............................................................................................................ 33 Lack of content...................................................................................................................... 34 Poor consumer awareness ................................................................................................... 35 Western Australian survey example.............................................................................. 35 Analogue switch-off uncertainty ............................................................................................ 36 Bad experiences ................................................................................................................... 37 Changing trends.................................................................................................................... 38 DTV in other countries............................................................................................................ 38 United Kingdom......................................................................................................................... 39 Italy ........................................................................................................................................... 39 Germany ................................................................................................................................... 40 United States ............................................................................................................................ 41 Learning from international initiatives........................................................................................ 42 v 3 Driving digital and switching off analogue.......................................................43 Drivers for DTV........................................................................................................................ 44 Quality....................................................................................................................................... 45 Content ..................................................................................................................................... 45 New technologies in products ................................................................................................... 47 Spectrum usage........................................................................................................................ 48 Promotion.................................................................................................................................. 50 Current initiatives to drive take-up........................................................................................ 51 DBA........................................................................................................................................... 52 Television campaign ................................................................................................................. 53 Network promotion.................................................................................................................... 54 Subscription television .............................................................................................................. 55 Retransmission of free-to-air networks.................................................................................. 57 Options for analogue switch-off dates.................................................................................. 58 Need for a certain analogue switch-off date.............................................................................

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