Fed: Digital TV officially underway today

AAP General News (Australia)
01-01-2001
Fed: Digital TV officially underway today

The digital television revolution has officially begun in Australian loungerooms, but
almost no one was able to see it.

An absence of digital televisions -- and a delay in the equipment allowing analogue
televisions to be tuned to digital images -- means the change has passed quietly.

The best most people will be able to do is visit stores which able to show off the
merits of digital television.

Test digital television broadcasts have been run in Sydney and Melbourne over the past fortnight.

An Australian Broadcasting Authority spokesman …