D-Day’s here
Wednesday 17th November 2010, 11:30AM GMT.
Digit Al checks out the viewing with Ashley and Ida Dupre and their daughters Isabella, 6, and Sofia, four months. (Picture by Peter Frankland, 1051318)
D-DAY has arrived in Guernsey – the day when the island is set to go digital.
From today, the analogue signal has been turned off and replaced by a digital one. As long as TVs are equipped to pick up the signal, viewers will receive 15 TV channels.
It also means that people with old DVD recorders or VCRs will be able to record only the channel they are watching.
At 1am this morning the analogue signal was switched off and VCRs and DVD recorders, which are analogue, do not have the right components to pick up the digital signal.
‘The long-term answer is to get a digital recorder, which can record something else to what you are watching,’ said Digital UK adviser David Farwick.
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Isn’t it a real shame we don’t get the 50+ channels the rest of the UK gets. Guernsey are second class citizens again.We pay the same licence fee. No DAB, poor/expensive broadband, etc etc etc
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“It also means that people with old DVD recorders or VCRs will be able to record only the channel they are watching.”
There seems to be a fair amount of confusion, not least in the media.
To clarify, as most old DVD recorders and VCRs don’t have a Freeview receiver built-in, only people that are using a Freeview box to watch TV will be able to record what they are watching. People who will be accessing Freeview via a TV with a built-in receiver and who have an old DVD Recorder/VCR will not be able to record any Freeview services, as there will be no digital signal looped through to the machine for it to record.
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Licence Fee? It is a tax, and a UK one at that!
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Not bothered as not switched on TV since May. Got fed up with repeats, too many soaps, bad news & adverts! What I really want to watch I do here on my computer. Radio is my forte these days!
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As a result of the digital switchover, we’ve lost the BBC Ceefax service, which I am very disappointed about. This was publicised hardly at all, although I did suspect it would happen. The “Red Button” service just doesn’t have the same level of content.
Sometimes it was convenient to be able to quickly call up the news or flight information on teletext without having to fiddle about powering up the computer and going to internet sites.
I recall there was some upset when ITV Teletext closed down a few months ago, in particular because islanders could no longer check flight arrivals and departures on their television sets. Shortly afterwards, BBC Ceefax started providing this information, but now we’ve lost that as well!
For those of us who already had Freesat or Sky we are getting nothing extra from the switch over, but we are losing our teletext!
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Well I personally have no complaints! All have been very helpful. As someone who was in the dark ages with just a tv and video recorder, it’s been relitively simple for me, just got a new tv and digital recorder, re-tuned both yesterday (using the helpful leaflet that came with the purchases)and now have the extra channels. Yes it was an expense, but as we’ve known the switchover date for ages, I was able to save up what I could over many months so enable me to make the purchases. And a special thanks to the guys at The Energy Centre (If I am allowed) as they were exceptionally helpful and patient will all my questions.
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