Freeview|HD in the Eastern Bay of Plenty

The country's last analogue television transmitter has been switched off at 2am on Sunday 1 DEC by Broadcasting Minister Craig Foss at the Waiatarua TV tower in Auckland's Waitakere Ranges.

Sadly, the only way to watch television in the eastern Bay of Plenty (including Whakatane and Kawerau) is via satellite and Freeview|HD is not available. I haven't got digital at my address - 78 Onslow Street - since the digital switch over.

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ZinwellPermalink Reply by Graham Wilson on January 6, 2014 at 22:11

Steve J said:

I agree . I have had people complain that on large screen sets the freeview sat pictures looks terrible.

In fact it looks worse than a good p5 signal from a main analogue station with a proper antenna system at the user end ,

getting rid of the waste of space channels would be a starter ( multiple tv1 and tv3 regions )

and then increase the bit rate of the remaining !!

changing the requirement to support H264 and DVBS2 is a step in the right direction. I suspect current boxes may be throw away and 5 years old . Introducing new channels in HD would then be possible if transponder space is available .

Graham Wilson said:

No further transponder space is currently available to Freeview on D1 so it is unlikely that we will see Satellite HD other than what Sky provides