The digital TV mystery

It seems that despite all of the advertising that has appeared in the media and on TV around a third of the population of the UK are not quite sure as to what they will have to do about switching their TV over to digital. But in a report by the National Audit Office (NAO) it also appears that even retail are not fully up to speed with the all of the details required to give customers an informed choice of what equipment would be needed.

The analogue signal is due to be turned off by the end of 2012, and there is one thing that could be building into a problem for the actual cost of the switchover, apparently when the figures were being put down on paper some there was a mistake and they have overestimated the cost of the switchover by around £250 million, which has come out of the TV licence fee money.

Although there is a huge amount of money estimated to be leftover from the original £603 million which has been put aside to help the elderly and disabled to switchover, but this has not been happening, and this is where the £250 million comes from.

As an example of the way that people are thinking, in the first half of 2007 around half of the TV’s sold were not digital, which shows the extent of the problem that still exists in the UK as a whole when it comes to the digital switchover.