The Future of Digital TV in NZ
Well the big news of the week is the Governments announcement on the future of Digital TV in New Zealand. It appears that we will be going with a dual DTT (Digital Terrestrial TV) and DTH (Direct To Home via satellite) path. This is great news for the New Zealand consumer as it will provide up to 18 TV stations in a high quality digital format. The “Freeview” group will be made up of TVNZ, TVWorks (CanWest), Maori TV and TAB.
For more details take a look at the following media releases -
- New Zealand Government Release
- NZ Government Digital Background Document
- TVNZ’s Media Release
- BCL’s Media Release
Plus TVNZ have just launched a Digital TV Website.
The story has also been featured in most of the New Zealand press -
- 18 TV channels and it’s all free
- Free-to-air digital TV from next year
- Digital TV to cost taxpayers $25m
- Future of free-to-air digital TV revealed
- Free TV Enters Digital Age. Finally.
- Freeview is coming to a small screen near you
So far we have yet to see any online announcements from CanWest.
Now what does this mean for existing, and potential, myPVR users? Well once we have full technical details then we can confirm support, but we are already testing myPVR with the initial DTT test broadcasts.