The date for The Digital Television Switchover is sweeping ever closer.
September this year, in this region.
Great.
Or it would be if the fucking service actually worked on all channels.
You can say what you like about the ‘old’ Analogue television system; yes, it only gave us five channels of shit, instead of the 43 channels of nothing-to-watch that Digital does.
But at least Analogue worked.
Digital TV gives us reception that schnippp sharpfff and then whzzzz wharpffft backwards while you shdniz schnick [white noise] unwatchable.
Useless, absolutely fucking useless.
I don’t know if the cause of this rubbish reception is something to do with last year’s fire at the Oxford transmitter, or just a symptom of Digitial TV being crap.
But the bottom line is, in this part of the country at least, that Digital TV is shit.
I hope it works out because digital TV is absolutely awesome. Our cable service in the states converted almost every channel to digital. Of course, we’re not stuck with 60’s technology AFN in Europe. Two years and change, and we’ll be able to see a decent screen again. Of course, that doesn’t change the fact that 198 of the 200 available channels have absolutely squat worthe watching.
Urk. That would be now stuck not not stuck
You do know that you need an aerial, don’t you? 😉
We were converted over last year and to be honest, haven’t had a huge number of problems, aside from the bloody DVR box asking me if I want to rescan for new channels every time I switch it on. Occasionally the picture will go a bit pixally but other than that it’s been great and we’ve now got umpteen channels for me to flick through before declaring telly is shit and there’s nothing on.
America made the switch-over to digital in June 2009. Our reception is spotty at best and often shite. When it works, digital is brilliant. When it doesn’t work, well, I’ve already said.
I’ve done a bit of checking around and it seems that the Oxford digital transmitter is putting some stations out on very reduced power. Well that’s really useful, isn’t it?