Islands TV digital "updated"

The digital television switchover in the Channel Islands will be on 17 November 2010, it has been announced.
The analogue signal will be permanently switched off in the islands, years earlier than originally planned.
The switchover, which has already happened in parts of the UK, means islanders will be able to receive at least 15 channels.
Householders will need to check that their TV has a digital viewer built in or get an external digital box.
Bill Taylor, from Digital UK, said: "The rule is, if you've got satellite or cable, you don't need to do anything because that's already digital.
"But if you've got any TV in the house that gets a signal through an aerial, whether that's on your roof, in your loft or on top of your telly, then you need a digital solution.
"The basic building block is a freeview box which costs an average of £25."
The switchover will make freeview available to virtually all households in the Channel Islands for the first time. (from BBC)

What will i do , i only have 4 channels then nothing ............lol

you will have to purchase a special box for about £27

Most modern TV's have Freeview built in so you may not need to buy anything.





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not with diggers tv dell .think it came on the ark with noah lol

how many use TVs with aerials lol??

i think you would be surprised cassandra.in my house we have digital but also an analogue ariel which can be useful when we are having probs with sky

Home minister Geoff Mahy, far left, Bill Taylor of Digital UK, centre, and Jersey’s Senator Alan Maclean at yesterday’s press conference to announce the digital TV switchover date. (0901260)

ONLY 16 channels will be available in Guernsey when the new digital service is launched in November – compared to 55 in 90% of the UK.
Guernsey television sets will not be able to receive the others because the island is not covered by any of the UK’s 80 large transmitters.
The Fremont transmitters are among more than 1,000 across the UK which will receive only the minimum number of channels. The analogue signal will be turned off in the Channel Islands on 17 November.
From that day, islanders who don’t have a satellite dish will generally have to buy a Freeview digital box. The box, which costs about £25, will allow the viewer to watch digital TV via their aerial using their existing televisions.
People in many parts of the UK will receive dozens of new channels, including movie, music and shopping channels and Sky News.
But TV viewers in the Channel Islands will be able watch 16 new channels, including two children’s ones, as well as listen to 12 radio stations and view five text information services.
A spokesman for Digital UK, the not-for-profit organisation that is overseeing the switchover, said it would make the UK public-service channels and those funded by the licence fee available in digital form in the Channel Islands.

• Log on to www.digitaluk.co.uk or call 08456 505 050 for more information on the switchover.
  

Once again we are "short changed" pay a full tv licence and only a crap service...

I,ve just gone Satellite with 100+ channels but it's still CRAP!

It's a real pain, but the state of tv being what it is at the moment, we probably wont miss too much.

so very very true GD but until the people start to complain nothing will be done.time we all said up you lot in the uk and stopped paying our tv licences

Thistle wrote:so very very true GD but until the people start to complain nothing will be done.time we all said up you lot in the uk and stopped paying our tv licences

I totally agree - before we got Freesat we could not get the BBC programmes properly!!! But still had/have to pay now!!! Now that J Ross is no longer going to be leeching money from us perhaps they can afford to waive our licence fees in the name of fairness!!! Maybe TV has had it's day and family entertainment will revert to what it used to be - doing things together instead of wanting to be entertained and then complaining about it! Anybody who know me will know I do not watch TV at all - but we still pay the licence so that son and hubby can!!!! and then they complain about the CRAP programmes....time to change methinks!

Judging by the circular delivered this week, it seems that we are, yet again, going to have a second rate service - just a handful of channels compared with anywhere else! Same old story!

Told you weeks ago about this situation some people on here tried to say i was wrong so now what we only get the same amount of channels the companies reckon our area is not viable so what do we do meekly hand over handfuls of cash to rupert murdoch at sky.
You will also not theneed to buy new recording eqiuptment as you can only record what you are watching ,Unless of course you again pay Murdoch for Sky +. The liscence only covers BBC programming the rest are commercial chanels so you still have to fork out for that as well. Digital radio does not even work here yet the stores sell them bloody rip off.

No need to get Sky, just Freesat. Complete kit is now only around £50 including a dish.