Wednesday, 17 August 2011

Goodbye Analogue, I'll miss you...

So that's it. Analogue TV signals were turned off last night in Yorkshire and Lincolnshire. We are now a digital only area... well apart from analogue radio of course, which I don't think will ever disappear.
No longer will I be asked to tune my parents TV or video recorder. I will miss the fuzzy pictures, the ghosting and the interference from the fridge compressor.
Now we have clean, crisp digital, where either it is or it isn't. No fuzziness, we know what pixels look like, pictures are made up like a jigsaw. The red button now means something to so many more people who up to now regarded it as a thing of the rich, the privileged or 'those with a satellite'.
But we now have a TV that does nothing. It's in the kitchen but it's not connected to the roof aerial and it doesn't have a digital tuner. I wonder how many more TV's now sit redundant across the country awaiting an uncertain fate...

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