Yippee! Now we don't need no stinkin' converter box ... we'll just all go over to Lixy's and watch her new TV. :D

All are welcome!

What you need is a video recorder with the decoder.

we have the digi boxes here for some time and australia was very slow in the take up of these, the picture quality was only a little better because of the resoloution of the standard tv's but the sound was 5.1, last year we bit the bullet after out std tv bit the dust and purchased a 46" LCD High Definition TV that has the digi tuner built in, the tv was expensive but it was worth evey penny as the high def digital tv shits all over standard tv both in tota;;y amzing picture quality and true 5.1 surround sound, one of the local country channels just plays scenery and it looks like you can just reach out abd touch it.

that's awesome moose! I have a high def tv, and am about to have high def satellite installed, I'm super excited.

:Ddon't get too excited. i've noticed that all the high def tv and satellite do is make you realize how shitty most pictures are. i never used to notice but now that damn tv points out every flaw. and with all the extra satellites that the dish needs to find, there are more little hiccups than there ever used to be.

hi-def is the biggest racket since pyramid scams. but don't tell my husband. he's the one who spent 5634879263987$ on it; therefore it's perfect. :p

^^^ :rofl:

I believe digital (DTV) and hi def (HDTV) are two very different things and a LOT of HD sets are being sold to people they see chocking on the smoke screen they keep throwing up.

yes the DTV and the HDTV are different and the first thing you notice is the quality of the picture, a tv with a HDTV tuner will allow you to watch both
DTV and HDTV so as we do you can flick between the 2, it is however a waste of time to get a HDTV box if you have a standard TV as the HDTV requires a higher resoloution tv, the big con in oz was a lot of tv's that are suppose to be HDTV ready are infact not as they are not high res tv's but smart arse marketing people stated that as you can plud a HDTV set top box into the they are ready, just like a vista capable pc will run vista