Well today the New Zealand government will be announcing its digital TV strategy. This week has had plenty of media speculation about what this will mean for consumers in New Zealand. I personally hope the New Zealand government makes a firm commitment to adopting HDTV broadcast via whatever medium makes sense (IPTV, satellite, cable, terrestrial). We now have plenty of consumers with HDTV capable TVs, we have xbox's that output HDTV, folk are downloading HDTV over the internet, gee you can even buy HDTV video cameras in NZ now, not to forget all of NZ's major TV studios are fully kitted out with HDTV cameras and vision mixing gear. Come on government, adopt HDTV before it becomes a legacy technology.

Updates:

Not much detail if this is going to be HDTV but a positive sign anayway

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