digital switchover posts archive

Digital Switchover has by and large gone without a hitch, but that’s not to say that there have not been problems.  Last year Freeview households in the West TV region received Welsh TV signals during the digital switchover process. And now it seems like the problem has resurfaced in about… Read the rest...

Hundreds of people may be throwing away their old televisions because they think they need new sets to adapt to the digital switchover (DSO), according to reports. Yet analogue sets can easily be adapted to receive digital services, and Argyll and Bute Council have warned viewers not to waste money… Read the rest...

On the whole, Digital Switchover has been very well managed, as it started in the Borders and worked its way down to the South West, (and is about to hit the Granada TV region next month). But it has not been without the odd mishap.  As part of the Digital… Read the rest...

Digital Switchover started in late 2007 in the Border TV region and has since moved on to the West Country TV area.  The west Country digital TV switchover finishes this week when the analogue TV signal covering 300,000 homes in Wales and the remainder of the West Country… Read the rest...

Television viewers in Plymouth and parts of Devon & east Cornwall were able to view Freeview digital TV pictures for the very first time yesterday. Just after the midnight hour, all TV services from Caradon Hill’s main transmitter and the 29 relays were switched off temporarily, BBC Two analogue was… Read the rest...