digital switch over

rubin1961 · 8 Nov 2006 at 11:28

do people realy understand what this means.
i install aerials and satellite and most custmors do not understand what all this means.
there will come a time were one day they will have tv and the next its gone.

norm · 8 Nov 2006 at 11:34

So some old granny won't get to watch Coronation Street, big deal.

Red and White · 8 Nov 2006 at 11:34

norm said:
So some old granny won't get to watch Coronation Street, big deal.

nice

cleanbluesky · 8 Nov 2006 at 11:35

So you're saying that we can all be free of TV?

That would be nice. Except for missing out on Lost.

Siliconslave · 8 Nov 2006 at 11:35

rubin1961 said:
do people realy understand what this means.
i install aerials and satellite and most custmors do not understand what all this means.
there will come a time were one day they will have tv and the next its gone.

i would imagine the advertising will ramp up considerably untill you won't have a choise but to take notice

rubin1961 · 8 Nov 2006 at 11:36

not just old grannys m8

hardc0re_tid · 8 Nov 2006 at 11:38

rubin1961 said:
do people realy understand what this means.
i install aerials and satellite and most custmors do not understand what all this means.
there will come a time were one day they will have tv and the next its gone.

not sure what you are getting at :eek:

do you mean that if they are still analogue when things goes digital they will have to switch to from a to d and untill them they will have to TV?

or do you mean that potentially you will be out of a job? (not having a laugh btw)

norm · 8 Nov 2006 at 11:41

I'd imagine after the actual switch-off of live channel transmission on analogue they'll replace it with a static screen instructing people to get Digital for months to come.

It won't be armageddon.

Red and White · 8 Nov 2006 at 11:42

norm said:
I'd imagine after the actual switch-off of live channel transmission on analogue they'll replace it with a static screen instructing people to get Digital for months to come.

It won't be armageddon.

if i miss coro it might be close

Kreeeee · 8 Nov 2006 at 11:45

rubin1961 · 8 Nov 2006 at 11:45

there are a lot of tv freeks out there and they cant do with out tv

rubin1961 · 8 Nov 2006 at 11:52

not sure what you are getting at do you mean that if they are still analogue when things goes digital they will have to switch to from a to d and untill them they will have to TV?

or do you mean that potentially you will be out of a job? (not having a laugh btw

never be out of a job m8 to many bogers out there we just keep putting things right what they should have done in the first place.

daz · 8 Nov 2006 at 11:53

What will they do with the bandwidth that's left? More freeview channels?

Red and White · 8 Nov 2006 at 11:55

daz said:
What will they do with the bandwidth that's left? More freeview channels?

WTF

daz · 8 Nov 2006 at 12:19

Clerkin said:
WTF

When they turn off analogue, they will have lots of spare frequencies to play with - to do something else with, or to simply expand the freeview channels etc...

Bernard · 8 Nov 2006 at 12:21

Hopefully a bit of both, new channels and better quality.

Jez · 8 Nov 2006 at 12:30

daz said:
What will they do with the bandwidth that's left? More freeview channels?

With any luck it will lead to an increase of bit rate rather than too many more channels. Really is quite a quality difference at the moment.

Manlove is my forte · 8 Nov 2006 at 14:35

daz said:
What will they do with the bandwidth that's left? More freeview channels?

I'm hoping it will be used for HD. But knowing the UK it will be more shopping channels and quiz channels. :rolleyes:

Puzzled · 8 Nov 2006 at 14:40

We have sky and freeview in this house, but I'm still dreading the time when analogue finally turns off.

The picture quality of sky is appalling, and we don't live in a great area for freeview so some channels are too weak to work. (We have a decent ariel).

Plus I'll have nothing to watch when sky goes down due to bad weather (it rains a bit hard :rolleyes:

).

I just hope that before they finally switch over they sort some of the problems out, at the moment some the analogue channels look better than the digi ones.

Jez · 8 Nov 2006 at 14:42

MonkeyMan said:
We have sky and freeview in this house, but I'm still dreading the time when analogue finally turns off.

The picture quality of sky is appalling, and we don't live in a great area for freeview so some channels are too weak to work. (We have a decent ariel).

Plus I'll have nothing to watch when sky goes down due to bad weather (it rains a bit hard ).

I just hope that before they finally switch over they sort some of the problems out, at the moment some the analogue channels look better than the digi ones.

As far as i am aware when analogue goes, the power of the digital trasmissions is going to be increased dramatically to cover the millions of dead spots at the moment.

Read this in a few reputable places, and certainly sounds plausable, i hardly know anyone who gets spot on digital reception, there is no way it could be the only solution as it is now.