Local Support for the Digital Switchover!

Posted on Monday 05 September 2011 in the '' category

Are you ready for the Digital Switchover?

Local Support for the Digital Switchover!

Did you know...

Some major changes will be happening to the way you receive your TV reception!

• Switchover affects any TV that receives its signal from an aerial. Television signals can be received via an aerial, satellite, cable or broadband connection.

• Switchover will affect how you record TV programmes. This is because most video recorders and some older DVD recorders have an analogue tuner in them, not a digital one.

• All households with a Freeview TV, Freeview set-top box or a Freeview recorder will need to re-tune at both stages of switchover.

The technical bit:

Currently local relay transmitters are only able to transmit an analogue TV signal. After switchover, for the first time, all transmitters including local relay transmitters will transmit a digital signal and increase the number of channels available from around 5 to more than 40.

The exact number is dependent on whether you receive your signal from a main transmitter, or a relay one. A relay station will typically enable 15 channels to be received, including the 5 main ones. If you use an aerial, it will receive its signal from a transmitter. In the UK, there are more than 1,150 transmitters organised into around 80 transmitter groups that will switch to digital one by one.

Each group has a main switchover transmitter and local relay transmitters.

Key dates for the Switch over:

Sutton Coldfield Transmitter Central:      07 Sep 2011 - Stage 1
                                                                21 Sep 2011 - Stage 2

To find out more about how the digital switch over will affect you, or for technical support please contact one of your local trusted experts.

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