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- Digital Switchover
In the UK the great digital switchover starts in 2008 and is due to finish in 2012. The Digital SwitchOver provides information on the schedule for the switch over, options for obtaining digital TV, and discusses the greater issues involved.
- Digital Switch Over Starts
Whitehaven in Cumbria, North West England today (17 October 2007) became the first town in England to have its analogue television signal switched off
- Links
- The Digital Revolution
The digital switchover will usher in a veritable digital revolution. It will mean nothing less than the demise of the television as we know it.
- Integrated Digital Television - iDTV
iDTV - integrated digital televison - contain in-built digital recievers - usually designed for Freeview, some models also feature built in ssatellite TV decoders.
- Digital Switchover Schedule
In the UK the great digital switchover starts in 2008 and is due to finish in 2012. The analogue TV signal will be switched off by TV region leaving millions of televisions, video players and equipment obsolete. The Digital Switch Over provides information on the schedule for the switch over, options for obtaining digital TV, and discusses the greater issues involved.
- Portable Digital Television
All of the portable digital televisions now on sale should work fine as long as they are connected to a good roof top aerial. If you want to be truly portable - camping or caravaning for instance - things become more difficult.
- HDTV - High Definition Television
- Video Recorders
The great digital switchover heralds the end of the video recorder as we know it. The future rests with DVD recorders and personal viceo recorders (PVR) such as Sky+
- Portable TV
Could the great digital switchover herald the end of portable TV? No more watching a grainy image in the beer tent - you either have a signal or not. There are certainly going to be parts of the UK in which your existing portable television simply won't work.
- Government Help
Tessa Jowell announced government help for the most needy in the digital switchover. Find out just what government help you might be able entitled to receive
- Options at a glance
Options for recieving digital television after the digital switchover are currently limited. Satellite, Cable, freeview and boradband. Compare your digital television options at a glance.
- News
Your home for news and comment on all matters to do with digital television and the great digital switchover
- NTl takeover Telewest
ntl takeover Telewest - the merger is creating the U.K.'s second largest communications company and leading triple play service provider with a cable footprint covering more than 50 percent of U.K. households.
- Royal Television Society Cambridge Convention 2005 in Cambridge - Tessa Jowell
15 September 2005 - Tessa Jowell Announces the Start of the Great Digital Switchover
Analogue TV to be turned off by 2012 (Just in time for the Olympics?)
- Digital Switchover Statement by the Secretary of State
21 July 2005 -Secretary of State Progress Report on the Digital Switchover. In the statement I made in this House last July, I said that I would report further material developments in the move towards digital switchover. I am pleased to say that good progress continues to be made.
- Broadband television
Broadband television is poised to take off in the UK. For the first time, there are now more households with broadband than dial-up internet connections. 2005 was the year in which broadband became a genuinely mainstream consumer product, now present in almost 30% of all UK households and businesses and actively considered by many more.
- Welsh Trial
Wednesday 30 March 2005
The purpose of the Trial has been to gauge the technical issues for broadcasters, multiplex operators and consumers associated with the digital switchover from analogue to digital television transmissions. The trial is a partnership between the Government, broadcasters and digital multiplex operators.
- Resources
The digital switchover will be controlled by the UK government, broadcasters and television manufacturers. This page contains links to all the major digital switchover stakeholders.
- Add more to your digital experience
While you are planning your personal digital switchover, take a look at these links to interesting web sites
- Advertising and Marketing
Internet resources on marketing and advertising
- Business
Business oriented web sites.
- Celebrities
Television celebrities. Love them or loathe them, television celebrities are what make the whole thing work. Links to the web sites of some of the better known celebrities.
- Communications
The digital revolution is already providing profound changes to our communications systems. Links to sites that extoll the virtues of advanced communications.
- Computers
Digital Switchover facilitates the merger of digital television and computing. In the meantime, here is a collection of computing related web sites for you.
- Fashion
Fashion sites
- Clothes
Fashion - clothes.
- Jewlery
The digital switchover is transitory, Fashions come and go. Good jewelry is for eternity.
- Finance
You are going to need to finance your digital switchover plans somehow. If you get short there may be some help from the finance resources on this page.
- Food
The digital switchover is not going to have much effect on our food and eating expectations. Or is it? Food related web sites.
- Fun
Sites with a lighter side to brighten your day.
- Health and Fitness
The digital switchover improves the home entertainment experiecne so much that you may never want to move from your digital television. Here's a collection of Health and Fitness sites - look after yourself.
- Homes and Family
Homes and gardens related links. Get some ideas while you are waiting for the digital switchover to start in your area.
- Home Theatre
Whatever your digital television plans make sure they include home theatre. Widescreen pictures, surround sound and more
- Pets
You can get digital pets - but nothing beats the real thing. Pet related resources.
- Internet
The internet is at the heart of the digital revolution. And there is so much more to the internet than the world wide web.
- Movies
The widespread uptake of digital television seems set to dramatically boost the home movie market. Large screen, flat panel televisions with high quality surround sound are set to flood the market making home cinema available to us all.
- Natural World
Web sites relating to the natural world.
- Recreation
There are a whole raft of recreation activities that have nothing to do with the digital switchover or the digital revolution. Here are some recreation resources to keep you occupied
- Outdoors
Beat the digital switchover - outdoor activities to suit all tastes.
- Podcasting
Podcasting. It's not only the digital switchover that's fuelling the digital boom. Podcasting is growing at a frenetic pace.
- Radio
With all the excitement over the digital switchover to digital television it is easy to forget that radio is undergoing an equally dramatic revolution.
- Travel
The digital switchover may mean we don't travel quite so much. Here's a few sites to entice you away from your digital television.
- Shopping
and if the digital switchover doesn't light your fire there is always shopping
- Satellite Television News
Satellite Television News: News on satellite and digital television as it happens. Real time digital television news feeds.
- Sky Press Releases
Sky (BSkyB) press releases provide you with up to date insights into what is happening in the thinking of Sky.
- Sky Premier Football Contract
5 May 2006 - Sky Premier Football Contract. BSkyB confirmed that it had been awarded a fourth package of live rights, package A. In addition to the three packages of 23 games each awarded to Sky last week, this package gives Sky rights to a further 23 matches airing Sundays at 16:00.
- Sky HDTV
24 March 2006 - Sky HDTV is on track to launch of its high definition television service. The first installations of Sky HD are scheduled to begin in May 2006
- Sky Climate Group
10 March 2006 - The Climate Group has announced that British Sky Broadcasting (Sky) has become a member. Sky is the first media company to join The Climate Group.
- Sky Disney
27 February 2006 - Disney Media Networks, The Walt Disney Studios and British Sky Broadcasting (Sky) today announced plans to bring a wider choice of channels to Sky digital customers and to work together to exploit new opportunities in high definition television and broadband. The
- Digital Television News
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