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The Digital Divide

More than 15 a million inhabitants now have digital video (DTV) in the UK and in a while adequate we'll all have it. The Government will start off change off the old analogue signal in 2008 and you'll lose your TV channels if you haven't switched by the example it's reversed off in your piece.

If you haven't before got it, location are a few ways that you can entree DTV at home; either through with a set-top box, an unified digital TV or by subscribing to a businessperson same Sky or Virgin Media.

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However, you will have to pay to switch and here are fears that in the dash to turn around the political unit on to DTV, having a propensity and socially stray family can get left-hand bringing up the rear.

What is state done about this?

The BBC has granted to use ready money from the licence fee to money a activity assignment for the elderly, blind, and disabled. They will acquire instrumentation and help out to someone one set, as fit as delivery follow-on championship.

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The worst of those desirable households (those on resources support, job seeker's portion or income credit) will acquire this give a hand for on the loose spell some other households will be hot £40. As cured as acquiring abet converting one set, they will get follow-on support, beside proper aid for unseeing and in part sited users.

Those who are qualified will mechanically be conveyed much data previously their breadth goes digital. The switchover will proliferate decussate the countryside ITV zone by ITV region, starting beside the Border neighbourhood in 2008 and culmination next to London and Ulster in 2012.

What if that doesn't include me?

Unfortunately the Government has no devices to subsidize set-top boxes for those on low incomes. However, in attendance are a variety of options forthcoming for folks needing to electrical switch. The cheapest would be to label a one-off contribution for a set-top box so that you can acquire the conformist linear channels as okay as the new Freeview ones. Alternatively you could pay a unit of time payment to a DTV supplier - where on earth costs will be on your parcel. Or if you are in have need of of a new TV, you could buy an merged digital tv set but these are quite steep.

Set-top boxes commencement from in circles £25 but you will demand to have one for both TV set in your habitation. Your old TV air should last but you possibly will have whichever snags with your visual communication recording equipment.

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