matturn Posted March 2, 2007 Posted March 2, 2007 Senator Coonan said this today: "Mr Rudd is robbing consumers of the opportunity for new digital television services..." I can only imagine Coonan doesn't like this because it's been Liberal party policy for about a decade. The statement was in relation to Rudd apparently planning to scrap "Digital Australia", a government body apparently in charge of the changeover from analogue TV to digital. I can't find any reference to this elsewhere on the internet, but I imagine it's true. She doesn't directly allege that Rudd won't scrap analogue TV, because most likely he hasn't. Just a possibly superfluous organisation that would spend public money to do what the commercial DBA could do with their money. The Libs like Big Government when it suits them. "...and robbing Australians of the digital dividend that the switchover from analogue would bring." Again, that's Liberal party policy, with that party not starting to turn out the lights next year as originally planned. I hope someone tells John that Coonan thinks their government has robbed Australia of billions. Of course no robbing has occurred, or has even been proposed. The revenue gathering in question has only been postponed. "As major countries such as the UK, US and the broader EU go digital, analogue programming will become scarce and Australian consumers and broadcasters will be left in the lurch and won’t even be able to buy analogue equipment." Analogue programming will become scarce. Really. That will be such a problem. To think we pay for these lies to be written and distributed... Eventually, the analogue equipment issue might be valid. If that happens Australia would have to develop an electronic manufacturing industry again. Which I imagine must be against Liberal policy.
Timmy Downawell Posted March 2, 2007 Posted March 2, 2007 Bwahahaha that's priceless. ...but even so, Coonan is way ahead of Alston. As sad as it may seem, even the Liberals have made progress (to a degree).
MELso Posted March 2, 2007 Posted March 2, 2007 Wouldn't it be funny if, rather than setting up massive bureaucracies to 'assist' in the conversion to DTV, the Minister instead followed the Government's market-driven ideology and deregulate spectrum usage by allowing unrestricted SD multichannelling to provide real incentives to Mr and Mrs Joe Average to convert... But 'analog programming'? WTF? Does the dear Minister not understand the fundamentals of technology the portfolio she administers. (Dear Minister, TV stations can convert programming between digital and analog...)
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