Digital TV

Its midnight Saturday, and half of Melbourne has braved the freezing weather and headed down to Birrarung Marr to cheer on Australia in the 2010 world cup. It was set to be a good night, a huge screen to watch the game on, deep fried junk food to snack on, and the ever possible chance that someone would let off a flair. And we did get all that, along with, digital TV reception.

When digital TV was introduced it was meant to be the new revolution in television. Clearer pictures, 5.1 digital sound and a tone of you channels, is what we got promised, and you know what, they delivered on those things. However there is one thing they did not tell us about digital TV. That it is almost unwatchable when you are having reception troubles. At least back in the old days of analogue TV if you had bad reception all you would get is a bit of snow on the screen, now the picture flicks on and off and does block effect thing.

To sum up digital TV is awesome and I can’t wait until it’s fully integrated in Australia, but until then I am going to listen to the radio.