Digital TV switchover

The analogue TV signal is due to be turned off across the country between now and 2012 to be replaced by the digital signal.

For anyone who is unfamiliar with digital TV it is a means to get another stash of cash out of you to purchase a receiver box, then, once you have one, spend the next 20 years trying to get a consistant signal out of it. Unlike the analogue signal, if you do not have a sufficiently strong signal, you get nothing. Gone are the days of squinting at a snowy picture to try and ascertain whats happening, and believe me, it's even more difficult following the plot of Midsummer Murders when all you can see is "No Signal".

And God help you if you don't have a roof mounted aerial. I currently have an indoor aerial, located on my windowsill, which has 2 signal boosters on it and by simply putting 2 large boxes in the vicinity of the receiver box and aerial has caused the loss of about a quarter of the channels and rendered a further quarter to intermittent breaks in the signal.

And, to compound the problems, by attempting to arrange the aerial to improve the reception, it fucks ups the reception of the analogue signal.

So unless someything happens to strengthen the signal, it looks like, due to the removal of the analogue signal and the inconsistancy of the digital signal, that the 2012 Olympics will be watched by only those in strong sgnal areas or who have Sky.

Anyone would think that Rupert Murdoch has some kind of influence over the government of the day. Surely not...