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Analogue Switch-Off Dates Confirmed

(September 2005)

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A former member
In response to those concerned about watching one channel and not being able to record another, I'm quite sure that DVD recorders will soon have a freeview set built in, if they haven't already.

Having watched the business news on Breakfast this morning, the switchover dates are as follows, just to clarify.
Scotland, Northern Ireland, Cumbria - 2008
Wales, SW England - 2009
NE and NW England - 2010
Yorkshire & Midlands - 2011
All other areas (including London) - 2012
MA
marksi
Er, no.

Border 2008 2nd Half
West Country 2009 1st Half
HTV Wales 2009 2nd Half
Granada 2009 2nd Half
HTV West 2010 1st Half
Grampian 2010 1st Half
Scottish 2010 2nd Half
Yorkshire 2011 1st Half
Anglia 2011 1st Half
Central 2011 1st Half
Meridian 2012 1st Half
London 2012 1st Half
Tyne Tees 2012 2nd Half
Ulster 2012 2nd Half
MS
Mark Smith
Sony currently have a DVD recorder with a DTT tuner, but as you can imagine it's expensive (about £300 IIRC). Soon two new hard drive/DVD recorders with DTT will be available, also by Sony. There have also been one or two VCRs with DTT tuners but they seem to be no longer available, probably because more people are now buying DVD recorders.

And there are a fair few twin-DTT-tuner hard drive recorders, some for as little as £170. Who needs VHS in the 21st century?
TW
Time Warp
marksi posted:
Er, no.

Border 2008 2nd Half
West Country 2009 1st Half
HTV Wales 2009 2nd Half
Granada 2009 2nd Half
HTV West 2010 1st Half
Grampian 2010 1st Half
Scottish 2010 2nd Half
Yorkshire 2011 1st Half
Anglia 2011 1st Half
Central 2011 1st Half
Meridian 2012 1st Half
London 2012 1st Half
Tyne Tees 2012 2nd Half
Ulster 2012 2nd Half


Source?
CW
Charlie Wells Moderator
From Media Guardian: http://media.guardian.co.uk/broadcast/story/0,7493,1409138,00.html

Quote:
2008

Border: Carlisle and towns on border of England and Scotland including Lockerbie and Dumfries
West Country:Devon and Cornwall including Exeter, Plymouth
HTV Wales: from Cardiff and Swansea in the south to Holyhead in the north

2009

Granada: Manchester, Liverpool, Blackpool
HTV West: Bristol, Bath, Gloucestershire
Grampian: Inverness, Aberdeen, Dundee and Scottish Highlands
Scottish TV: Edinburgh, Motherwell, Glasgow, East Kilbride

2010

Central: Birmingham, Coventry, Nottingham
Yorkshire - York, Leeds, Doncaster, Sheffield, Harrogate
Anglia: Norwich, Ipswich, Colchester

2011

Meridian: Southampton, Brighton, Tunbridge Wells, Dover, Maidstone
Greater London
Tyne Tees: Newcastle, Sunderland and the north east
Ulster: Belfast, Newry, Derry

2012

Channel Islands


It wouldn't suprise me if Marksi has access to more specific info.
MA
marksi
time_warp posted:
marksi posted:
Er, no.

Border 2008 2nd Half
West Country 2009 1st Half
HTV Wales 2009 2nd Half
Granada 2009 2nd Half
HTV West 2010 1st Half
Grampian 2010 1st Half
Scottish 2010 2nd Half
Yorkshire 2011 1st Half
Anglia 2011 1st Half
Central 2011 1st Half
Meridian 2012 1st Half
London 2012 1st Half
Tyne Tees 2012 2nd Half
Ulster 2012 2nd Half


Source?


I'd have thought that I've proved myself reliable if nothing else.

But since you have asked so nicely, the source is the Department of Culture, Media and Sport.
TV
TV from Wales
marksi posted:

I'd have thought that I've proved myself reliable if nothing else.

But since you have asked so nicely, the source is the Department of Culture, Media and Sport.


As if they know anything about the digital switchover. Laughing Laughing Laughing

Incidentally, the Tory chap who's heading the joint committee was on the Today programme this morning and he said that if the Tories came to power then there would be an immediate review of the situation. Twisted Evil
NJ
Neil Jones Founding member
jason posted:
In fact the chances are you'll be able to get devices which fit directly into the aerial socket of the TV and convert the digital signals directly into a series of analogue ones which you tune into in the normal way through your analogue tuner, so they'll be virtually invisible.


This is an excellent idea, the adaptor/filter type-thing, in fact if such a device comes out AND is cheap enough, it'll be a super stopgap until digital comes as standard.

After all, a Freeview box is basically nothing more than an oversized glorified filter to separate out the DTT signals from the normal UHF signals. Should be possible to compact this down to nothing bigger than a standard signal booster.

Still it'll provide justification for the 99 channel tuners that TVs have had for years but nobody's been able to use them all. Smile
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tvarksouthwest
marksi posted:
There was a man on Matthew Bannister's programme on Five Live this morning, apparently he's heading the government's digital switchover.

This is worrying as he didn't know the answers to a number of the straightforward questions listeners phoned in with, which he should have done.

Since when have government ministers, or government lackeys, known ANYTHING about the things they make decisions about?

The ex-Met chief was right to pan David Blunkett.
CA
Con Air
Con Air posted:
The delay in digital television transmission is annoying, it makes the news up to 3 seconds behind the hour, is this glitch something we shall have to live with forver post analogue shutdown?


^_^ So surely I have the most wothwhile gripe about DTT. Its crazy delay.
SP
Spencer
Con Air posted:
Con Air posted:
The delay in digital television transmission is annoying, it makes the news up to 3 seconds behind the hour, is this glitch something we shall have to live with forver post analogue shutdown?


^_^ So surely I have the most wothwhile gripe about DTT. Its crazy delay.


Can you really not wait an extra 3 seconds?
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TVdaz
It's stupid to have such a limited option. The Channel Islands and parts of the south-west cannot receive Freeview or Cable, and in one of these towns, the satellite is behind a Mountain. If things don't change, then they will not receive TV at all.

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