Telstraclear have been announcing the move to digital since 2003. The reason given for the delays was trouble securing the STB's. At that time they were to be Advanced Digital Broadcast (ADB) STB's. I don't know if they have changed suppliers for their plans to start later this year.
Even both www.stuff.co.nz and http://www.nzherald.co.nz/ don't have any recent info, let alone details.
But getting back to your questions, It's way to early to even guess what the situation will be if and when it finally gets going.
But the following points will apply.
- We won't know if we can capture the codes to control the STB till we try.
- Most channels will already have guide data from sky.
- If new channels are added and guides are available online, then there is a good chance someone will write a scrapper for it.
Peter.
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