Digital switchover

The digital switchover is an exciting time in the digital TV world. It will see TV signals switching from analogue – which sends TV signals through airwaves – to digital, where signals are converted to small packets of information before being sent through an aerial, satellite, cable or phone line.

The digital switchover will make TV access fairer for everyone, as channels become more universally available. Digital TV will give you more channels than analogue, and the picture quality can be better too. But you have to make sure that all the TVs in your home have a digital feed of some sort. That doesn't mean, however, that you need to change all your TV sets!

The digital switchover is happening right now, and the analogue to digital switchover will be completed by 2012. So far the digital switchover timetable is in the early stages. Whitehaven in Cumbria was the first place to switch in October 2007, and the UK will be completely digital when the switchover finishes with Tyne, Tees and Ulster in 2012.

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