I have the misfortune to be living in the remote central VAST footprint, which essentially broadcasts only 2 genuine HD services, SBS HD & ABC HD. The commercial FTA HD situation is a complete joke on VAST:
7 Mate - very little HD content and generally substandard PQ
One - stopped broadcasting native HD content when the parent broadcaster, Ten switched its capital city terrestrial broadcast to HD. So all central footprint One material is upscaled.
Imparja Gem - limited native HD programming of questionable quality.
The standard definition services on VAST are basically unwatchable on any large size TV - impacted horribly by compression and cost cutting measures by the regional broadcasters, ie Imparja & Southern Cross. The operations manager at Imparja told me that there is zero chance of its main channel switching to HD any time soon.
Fix this mess and provide reasonable main channel 1080i HD on VAST and in the regions, before dancing off with the fairies talking about UHD.
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