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Originally Posted by Damien
What about old people with a old tv set picking up the BBC who may not have a clue
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Originally Posted by Chris T
Absolutely.  The only way get close to handling this is for all TVs sold in the UK from now on to be dual standard analogue/digital. Then when the switch-over occurs, there won't be a sudden problem with TVs that have years of life left in them being obsolete. For those with ancient TVs that they just won't get rid of, there needs to be a subsidy scheme to enable them to get a STB. Of course, none of this is going to happen and come 2012 a lot of confused OAPs are going to find they have no TV. |
I sympathise with all those old people who may not have a clue and all those confused OAP's. I also sympathise with all those young people who may not have a clue and the confused young ones that find they have no TV. Wherever did you get the idea that getting old suddenly means that you lose most of your brain and don't know what you are doing? I would say that anyone thinking along those lines is very confused and doesn't have a clue about life.
If you can remember the days when all TV channels were broadcast in VHF you will know how the progression to UHF went. It wasn't the end of the world!
Maybe the move to all digital could be the time when the TV licence was scrapped, giving most people the extra cash to convert to digital.