Ramblings from the Restaurant at the Ragged Edge of Reason

New Zealand has finally (early 2008) released digital terrestrial broadcasting for most of the free-to-air channels.

Strangely given the usual technology lag the providers chose to implement this new service in the H.264/AAC format rather than the more established MPEG2 format used by almost all other countries. This has both its advantages and disadvantages, the decreased bandwidth ...