Get ready to switch

Whitehaven is not a place famed for its revolutions, which is just as just as well considering the presence of Sellafield’s nuclear power station.

But last year it won the honour of being not only the last place in Britain to be invaded – well a boat load of Americans came ashore and got drunk during the American Revolution anyway – but also the first place to succumb to the big Digital-Revolution and switch off its analogue TV signal.

Digital TV is here to stay and coming to a place near you and fast and you can find out how fast at What started last year in Whitehaven ends in 2012 in London, just in time for the Olympics.

From now on we will all have access to at least 18 different channels, which is apparently going to give us “increased choice” of “high quality programming” according the government.

Unfortunately a quick perusal at the listings for BBC Three is making me doubt this confident pronouncement.

Programmes like Page Three Teens and Britain’s Youngest Grannies hardly make it sound like it is going to be worth all the effort, but I am sure that the less cynical amongst you will disagree.

The real revolution will come once the switchover is complete and the freed up spectrum allows greater access to HD TV and mobile television, it’s what Marx had planned for us all along comrades!

Tags: Digital TV, Switchover //