Coming to a Television Near You From 2008

In the UK the great digital switchover starts in 2008 and is due to finish in 2012. The analogue TV signal will be switched off leaving millions of televisions, video players and equipment obsolete.

Tessa Jowell, the Minister for Culture and Sport, announced the Great Digital Switchover on 15 September 2005 in a speech to the Royal Television Society in Cambridge. "Digital TV is no longer a probability, it is a certainty. And I believe it can leave us with a legacy of more choice for more people than anywhere else in the World" she said.

The Start of a New, Digital Revolution

Digital television is little short of the start of a digital revolution in our use of television in the home.

It heralds the convergence of two of the greatest technologies of our age