Malcolm Turnbill, Australian Communication Minister, has urged commercial television broadcasters to migrate to MPEG-4 video compression standard as it would free-up 21 MHz of spectrum.
“We are keen to encourage commercial and national broadcasters to commence their transition to MPEG-4-only broadcasting, with the aim that every service would move to an MPEG-4 standard. The government expects that a transition such as this would be industry managed,” said Turnbull.
Turnbull has indicated that the broadcasters would retain this spare spectrum for their own use. The spectrum would be shared between the channels.
Turnbull has also stated that the sixth channel of spectrum which is used in some locations for community TV broadcasts – would be freed up for a potential second digital dividend auction after the end of 2015.
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