The fact is that so called FREE TV here in Australia is NOT FREE at all...We have been paying for it for the past 50 years.

I would have to ask do we or should we look forward to paying through the nose for the next 50 years for digital TV as well just like what we have been " paying " through the nose to watch the same crappy TV and commercials on Cable TV for the past 10 years too ?.

Well all know too that Cable TV when FIRST came on line in that these Cable TV providers had a Battle cry in that there was NO commercials on their network !... Yeah right that sure changed and the Cable TV providers scam sure changed too in them getting a double whammy from not only paying subscribers but also getting big dollars from Advertisement houses in airing TV commercials on the cable network.... What a take that turned out to be even to this day.

Their Battle cry should have been come on in sucker!.

There for what is the point of any Australian TV Broadcasting Network asking to have asses to digital TV and remember it was the TV industry that did ASK for this in the first place.

In them doing so for Australia if they are not going to put on more Australian TV programming content on our Australian TV set or be it on the new digital networks.

There for what use would it be for any Australian in having to pay out yet again good hard earned cash in having to buy all this new equipment so as to receive digital TV like a HD TV sets set top boxes let alone customers not having any " Plug and Play " setup.

If we are not going to get any True " Plug and Play " setup for all these digital networks what the point other than just doing over the Australian public in ripping them off yet once again!.

Also if we are not going to get any True Australian or Territory content other than the small amount of so called local news that we have been getting all these years then so I guess we can just look forward to getting more American Telly Marketing or more American Telly TV programs so I have to ask just what good is all this to the Northern Territory community or in causing the Australian public to have to spend " Millions " of " Dollors " in having to change over to these digital networks and for what ?.

So as to get the same American Telly Marketing or American Telly TV programs and perhaps MORE TV commercials in the HD format on our TV sets ?.

We are told that we Australians spend " Millions " of " Dollars " in promoting and selling Australia and our Territory to the tourism for what if in fact that anyone coming to Australia are not going to see anything different in coming to Australia or to our Territory.

So what then is the use of " ANY Tourist " even coming here in the first place if all they are going to get is the same tripe thats been served up to them at their home which we are getting on our so called proudly Australian Broadcasters.

In that the Australian TV Industry here in Australia has had a complete lack of Australain programming for many years let that fact alone even concerning covering any real news at least on the local front that is of Australian origin also even local news suffers from any local participation in matters which are of more concern to us all in our own STATE or TERRITORY.

But lets not forget for one moment our so called Australian Broadcasters that supposedly support our " local community " the ones that are supposed to make you think that your local government or state government cares about you or our environment you know the Advertisements where we also see our children being used to clean up our beaches and parks in being used to pick up garbage, and all the nice ones that dont show you the true facts about how our Government Officials pollute our air but they sure go out their way to just make you feel better about your own comfort zone.

Need I say more if you have read whats on this web site ?.

Then we have these Australian Broadcasters with their over the top repetitive and brain washing commercial advertising that we have been seeing and hearing for years in that you just start to watch something and yep you guessed it we get a TV commercial in thats on just about ever 9 mins with generally showing poor attributes in promoting crap or with all their Telly Marketing scams and even out right Porn and Child Exploitation that has and is now being plastered on our TV screens.

Ints wonderful to see how such Australian Broadcasters can and have been get away in doing such illegal activity.

That just between whats has to call the oldie classics commercial TV advertisements like " Save the Trees, Save The Monkeys, Save the Whales, Save our Coastline, Save the Children, and many others as well as Womans tampons, Menstrual pains, womans abuse, or just outright hard sell and TV scam's, not to mention intimidation, and use of fear, abuse,and Child Exploitation.

Try this out for yourselfs in that just pick up a news paper or TV book and READ just how much TRUE Australian content this is on our TV sets in real terms !.

I bet you are hard pushed to even find very much at all it mostly comes down to American shows that are on our Australian TV sets and have been so for many years along with all their American Telly Marketing as well even the price of items on some of these ads are in US $.

We have all seen these whether it be day time or late night segments of American hard sell that rave on for hours at a time and we are talking about repetitive hard sell for at least up to 4 hours at a single time everything from your teeth and how white they could be at only $ US ?.. but wait there is more. You know the commercial something that you would " really want to watch and waste your power bill on "...yeah right.

So as for anyone thinking about paying out for one of the latest wide screen or High Definition TV sets that cost anywhere from $2000 to $8000 and up and all of the rest of equipment that can go with it all.

Perhaps just a word in your ear in that you would do better buying a small TV set and pocketing the difference and taking a holiday over seas as the same crap on our tv screens will still be here when you get back.

You know one would be forgiven into thinking that this was America we lived in ...its just that the gum tree outside the window that give's it all away!.

Free to air TV is not worth a tosser here in Austrlia least of all here in the Northern Territory so good on you Australian Broadcasters that have made watching TV a thing of the past.

Australians....Go figure !.