Is this a digital TV?

[Swafe]

in 2010 tho your tv wont work ( i think anyway) as the tv is analogue and wont be able to accept the signal - unless it will work ok routing thru the freeview box ?

[ajbrun]

No its analogue they will be switching off and that won't be until 2010.

Terrestrial refers to receiving Digital TV through an aerial.

Sorry - I went to currys today, and they had a definition for HDTV also. They said the same as you. They won't switch on the HDTV satellites until 2006.

[poolking]

in 2010 tho your tv wont work ( i think anyway) as the tv is analogue and wont be able to accept the signal - unless it will work ok routing thru the freeview box ?

Your TV will still work, you just won't get an analogue signal, you will have to get a freeview box if you don't want satellite or cable.

[ajbrun]

No - I think that if you don't have a freeview box (or any form or digital), you won't be able to get any channels. 2010 is when analouge is turned off permanently.

[Rave]

They won't turn off analogue until a large proportion of the population has freeview (think it's 85-90%). They've got to make sure the whole country is covered too. Still, in 2010, a freeview box will be so cheap to make it wouldn't surprise me if the government gave them out for free to the last few people who didn't have them. TBH I can't see why anyone wouldn't want freeview, more channels, better quality. If the government get to sell the analogue frequencies for other stuff, then in theory we all benefit from that.

As for HDTV- AFAIK, there are few or no CRT tellies that support it unfortunately. It's a shame, since I still prefer CRT to any other type of display, even plasma.

Rich :¬)

[TiG]

Sorry - I went to currys today, and they had a definition for HDTV also. They said the same as you. They won't switch on the HDTV satellites until 2006.

See previous post

Thanks for listening hehe

TiG

[poolking]

No - I think that if you don't have a freeview box (or any form or digital), you won't be able to get any channels. 2010 is when analouge is turned off permanently.

That's basically what I said.