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Freeview launched in New Zealand 19 years ago today. I was working at a Dick Smith Electronics store at the time and remember selling a lot of set top boxes and efen the occasional dish 📡
For a brief time you could watch Australian television which was carried by the same satellite 🛰️
The Australian satellite feed wasn't meant to be direct to homes though, it was for relaying broadcasts between states, so the signal got encrypted when they caught on that New Zealanders were freeloading on ABC and SBS
You might think no one watches broadcasts anymore but 60% of New Zealanders watch linier television daily.
Still the best way to watch live sports- will be interesting (for nerds at least) to see what the load on our Internet infrastructure is next World Cup since that's going to be streaming
You might think no one watches broadcasts anymore but 60% of New Zealanders watch linier television daily.
Still the best way to watch live sports- will be interesting (for nerds at least) to see what the load on our Internet infrastructure is next World Cup since that's going to be streaming
When you watch Netflix or Disney+ you're not watching directly from their severs, you're watching from a cached copy on your Internet providers network, that reduces the load, but you can't real do that with live sports, at least not without a sizable delay
The Australian satellite feed wasn't meant to be direct to homes though, it was for relaying broadcasts between states, so the signal got encrypted when they caught on that New Zealanders were freeloading on ABC and SBS
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