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.