Digital TV Changeover

With an estimated 70% of UK viewers in the dark over digital switch.

• On In the early hours of 17th October 2007 around 25,000 households will be the first to have the old analogue signal switched off (Whitehaven, Western Cumbria, UK), by 2012 many TV's will not work when the Government turns off the analogue broadcasting signal.
• Digital TV Changeover a process when analogue broadcast television is converted to digital television in an area, also referred to as analogue switchoff.
• Market researchers GfK show that 48 per cent of televisions sold between April and June were analogue and nearly half of all televisions sold over the past three months are old-fashioned analogue sets.

These links are recommended for more information regarding change over from analogue: