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Canberra Digital TV
Digital TV has come along way in the last 12 months or so, that includes online streaming of the latest TV shows by ABC and TEN (which are by the far the better channels or broadcaster I should say)
Where to start hey? well I have a number of digital TV products, Speed TV, LifeView FlyDVB-T PCI Hybrid, FlyTV Express X1 MST-T2A2, Mobi DTV Pro USB stick, Kworld 399U and a PE210SE dual DVB-T PCI-e x1 card and many other.
A couple of good web sites to check out are:
- ABC TV’s site all about there digital content
- ABC TV show downloads
- The amazing iView (ABC)
- ABC adjacent channel information
- ABC Transmitter Frequencies
- TEN’s sweet site, and if you missed a show then you can watch it online
- TEN Digital Information, TEN HD, TEN online videos
- SBS digital information here
- SBS Digital TV Transmission Parameters
- There is an interesting read in PDF form here regarding Canberra Digital TV general specs etc
- History and general information about digital TV in Australia
- Canberra online nightly TV Guide
- DTV-Forum general Canberra information
- Australia Communications and Media Authority (ACMA)
- Freeview Australia page
- Sevens new 7two channel
- Digital TV in Australia links page
- Digital TV switchover Australia
- ABC site – Introduction to digital TV
You can even download most ABC TV shows as free video podcasts via iTunes.
abc-tv-iview
Terms.
Closed captioning – Closed captioning enables the hearing-impaired to read the dialogue-in text form-of the television program. The text usually appears at the bottom or top of the program. Closed captioning looks like sub-titles on foreign language programs.
High-definition – High-definition television pictures, when compared with normal standard definition pictures on our current television sets, are sharp, non grainy, crystal clear and superior in quality and definition. HDTV comes in a ‘wide-screen’ 16 x 9 (16:9) format. The current analogue format is 4 x 3 (4:3)
Multi-channel – A multi-channel broadcast is one where a number of traditional television programs are broadcast at the same time. Digital technology makes this possible by compressing the signal to fit more ‘channels’ or ‘programs’ into the same corridor of broadcast spectrum used for current television broadcasting.
Simulcast – Transmitting both analogue and digital television simultaneously so that viewers can receive the same program with a current analogue TV set or a digital TV set.
Transmission – Broadcast transmission is the carrying of broadcast information-traditionally pictures and sound-through the air from broadcaster to viewer.
Digital TV Format’s etc.
Standard Definition
SD broadcasts provides wide screen DVD equivalent picture quality. The resolution is 576i (576 horizontal lines interlaced). It is broadcast with MPEG digital stereo sound (similar to CD quality) some programs are enhanced with Dolby Pro Logic or Dolby Digital sound.
High Definition
HD broadcasts also provide wide screen pictures, but they have an even sharper image with up to twice the horizontal and almost three times the vertical resolution of SD. Due to bandwidth restrictions, there has been some debate by the public broadcasters over what constitutes “high definition”. Australia is one of the only countries in the world to consider a 576p image to be the minimum for HD. This means it is a “progressively scanned” version of the standard definition signal. SBS HD is broadcast in 576p, as is most of ABC HD.
720p is the universally accepted standard for the minimum HD picture resolution, and consists of a 1280×720 pixels at 50Hz progressive. The maximum resolution that the broadcasters transmit in is 1080i (1080 horizontal lines interlaced). As flat screens like LCD’s are naturally progressive they won’t display an “i” image anyway, but will instead convert it automatically to “p”. The benefits of HD pictures are particularly noticeable on larger screen sets.
Channels that we can receive here in Canberra are:
SC10 Canberra
One HD)
SC Ten
ABC HD TV
ABC1
ABC2
ABC1
ABC3
ABC DiG Radio
ABC DiG Jazz
WIN TV Canberra
WIN TV HD
GO!
PRIME Canberra
PRIME HD
PRIME View 1
PRIME VIEW 2
PRIME VIEW 3
SBS One
SBS HD – Live HD
SBS Two
SBS 3
SBS 4
SBS Radio 1
SBS Radio 2
Channel Information (updated 10-02-2010)
Please note that the HD resolutions on the HD (high definition) channels seem to vary based on the actual show the is currently showing.
SC10 Canberra
Standard Definition 720×576 MPEG2 audio
sc10 canberra
One HD
High Definition 1440×1080 AC3 audio
one hd canberra
SC Ten
Standard Definition 720×576 MPEG2 audio
sc ten
ABC HD TV
High Definition 1280×720 AC3 audio
abc hdtv
ABC1
Standard Definition 720×576 AC3 audio
abc1
ABC1
Standard Definition 720×576 MPEG2 audio
abc1-1
ABC2
Standard Definition 720×576 AC3 audio
abc2
ABC3
Standard Definition 720×576 MPEG2 audio
abc3
ABC Dig Radio
Radio Channel 720×576 MPEG2 audio
abc dig music
ABC Digital Jazz
Radio Channel 720×576 MPEG2 audio
abc jazz
WIN TV Canberra
Standard Definition 720×576 MPEG2 audio
win canberra
GO! Canberra
Standard Definition 720×576 MPEG2 audio
go canberra
WIN TV HD
High Definition 1440×1080 AC3 audio
win hd canberra
PRIME Canberra
Standard Definition TeleText 720×576 MPEG2 audio
prime canberra
PRIME HD
High Definition 1440×1080 AC3 audio
prime hd
PRIME View 1
Standard Definition 720×576 MPEG2 audio
prime view 1
7Two on Prime
Standard Definition 720×576 MPEG2 audio
7two on prime
PRIME View 3
Standard Definition 720×576 MPEG2 audio
prime view 3
SBS HD Also Live HD
High Definition 1280×720 MPEG2 audio
sbs hd
SBS One
Standard Definition 720×576 MPEG2 audio
sbs one
SBS Two
Standard Definition 720×576 MPEG2 audio
sbs two
SBS 3
Standard Definition 720×576 MPEG2 audio
sbs 3
SBS 4
Standard Definition 720×576 MPEG2 audio
sbs 4
SBS Radio 1
Radio Channel 720×576 MPEG2 audio
sbs radio 1
SBS Radio 2
Radio Channel 720×576 MPEG2 audio
sbs radio 2
The main channels here in Canberra and there frequencies etc
Coverage map here in Canberra. Digital TV reception is real strong here in Canberra.
Trust me there is more to come.
Thanks Jason. Just about what my weekend checking, rechecking and filtering exercises came to.
Monitored SC10 and SC TEN almost religiously and could see no difference, so went with SC10. Not bothered with One as I’m not a sporty and zapped WIN HD as the (oztivo) EPG I use doesnt cover it. The rule-of-thumb I used is that if there is an oztivo EPG feed for the channel then I’ve kept it, but if not then I’ve put it on the back burner.
Thanks again!
Mat
From what i can tell the SC10 and SCTEN channels are mostly the same content (they may vary slightly) One HD is all sport and a unique channel.
Prime Canberra, 7two and Prime HD can be kept, but prime view 1 and prime view 3 you don’t need as they are the same as the main prime Canberra channel.
The ABC channels again a are mixed bunch, I tend to keep ABC1, ABC HD and ABC3 and get rid of the other ones.
SBS is also mostly the same across the channels.
Win, GO and WIN HD can be kept (sometimes the main WIN channel and the WIN HD channel are the same but at least 50% of the time they are different) The main channel and the HD versions of the same channel are normally the same just one is SD and the other is HD of course.
It would come down to actually checking the similar channels every few hours to see if the same channels actually have the same content or if it is different..
In Isaacs i get 19 Services. However, these include services such as ‘SC10′ & ‘SC TEN’.
I’m trying to optimise stuff so that there is no duplication of eqivalent services; if SC10 and “SC TEN” are same same then i only need one. So, how do I find out what the difference is between SC10 and SC TEN (IE. Technical & programming)?
Can I also assume that programming on SBS HD is the same as SBS? So I should go with SBS HD…
Kind Regards
Mat
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Can you see black mountain from your location (from out side your house etc)
What kind of antennae are you using and is it digital tuned / compatible etc.
There are a couple of smaller transmitters dotted around Canberra but most of them are small analog units.
The main digital ones are from what i can tell are located at Black Mountain, Tuggeranong Hill and Mt Taylor, i am not sure about Belconnen as it has line of sight to Telstra Tower.
Searching for digital TV items in google doesn’t really show much does it.
I live in Hackett and have direct line of sight to Telstra Tower but the last 4 weeks or so and 60% of the time our reception is total rubbish so i don’t know what they are doing.
The channels that we have problems with are win and capital (TEN)
I don’t know what else to say at the moment.
Hi Jason
My parents live in Farrer and can gett all channels other than the ABC digital channels. They don’t have a problem in getting them on analogue.
Cheers
David
I have now updated the information above with the correct and latest information.
The Frequency is 219500khz and the symbol rate is 7000. that is in Canberra by the way
Sorry for the late reply.
There web site is just http://www.ten.com.au and the online guide is at http://ten.com.au/tvguide_search.html
I have no problem viewing the guide for Ten, Win, ABC etc on our 108CM plasma, some channels do take about 20 seconds to come up, the EPG information is extracted from the broadcast stream so it may take a few seconds to load.
Check out http://www.yourtv.com.au/guide/index.cfm
Hi Jason
What is the story with SC10 Canberra.
I cannot find the homepage for SC10 Canberra nor an online TV guide showing weekly programs for SC10 Canberra.
Also why does the DTV (ours is a Sony Bravia) online TV program guide not automatically populate the program information for the various channels. We usually have to select each channel to see/retrieve the programs for that channel – very annoying.
Regards
Jed
What is the frequency details for Win’s new channel GO!
?
Thanks Jason,
Yeah they use a roof mounted antenna and get analogue fine – it was just a problem with digital. Let’s hope they don’t live in one of those black spots though.
Chris
Do your parents use a roof mounted antennae, have you tried pointing it at Telstra tower, all though the transmitter on Mt Taylor should be fine.
You should get plenty of channels unless your parents are in some kind of black spot which has been known to happen in weird places.
There is a few other places around like Tuggeranong Hill and there is one in Banks from what I have been told.
Things have changed quiet a bit with in the last 2 – 3 years.
I have some friends that live in Omally near Isaacs and they could get most digital TV channels from what I could remember.
They should receive more channels (upto 25) since it has been a few years since they tested it… If they buy the TV it will have an analogue tuner as well so they won’t be completely stuck.
Hi Jason,
I’m not sure if you can help, but I thought I’d ask anyway. My parents live in Isaacs and a got a digital set top box a few years ago but had to return it because they could only pick up two channels (SBS and ABC) clearly from the Mt Taylor.
They’re now thinking of upgrading to a HDTV with a built in tuner, but am I correct in assuming they will only be able to receive the same two channels in HD?
Thanks
Page updated with resolution and audio information, I will update the new SBS channels line up very soon
I know in Canberra that all the ABC channels are 205625mhz and transponder ID of 529.
I am not sure about other locations around Australia.
I will have to update this page soon, especially when the new one HD channels starts early July (2nd I believe)
I will see what I can dig up.
Can you please shed some light on channel 9A (ABC)? Is it the same broadcast frequency all over Australia (205.625MHz) or just Canberra?
Reason being, that on my PVR, channel 8 (ABC) shows as 205.5MHz.
Thanks
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I live in Hackett over near Dickson and 50% of the time I can’t even receive any SBS channels on our media box or my main system, but our SD/HD tuner built into our TV can receive SBS perfectly.
There is no web site that I am aware of that provides information about transmission problems.
From what i can tell is that freeview branding will take affect soon and all the channels will change so a retune will be in order when that comes into affect.
Sorry I can’t be of more help but I am just an end user like everyone else.
Hi,
We live in Rivett, SW of the Telstra tower.
Over the last few weeks, SBS digital became very pixellated, and finally diappeared completely. Only today have we been able to retune to the SBS digital TV and radio stations.
Any idea what happened? I assume there was a problem with the transmitter, but it would be good to know!
Peter G.
Indeed it is Canberra Digital TV.
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