Britain begins digital TV switch over in earnest

Alioth writes: "The long-anticipated switchover to purely digital TV began last night in Britain. Although digital broadcasts have been available for a while in most parts of the UK, they have been running alongside the old analogue frequencies. Last night, in the small hours, the analogue signal for BBC2 was switched off forever in the town of Whitehaven in Cumbria. Analogue signals are expected to have been switched off over the whole of the UK by 2012."

hi-tech britain!

[pbhj]

I saw the news report last night ... they had a town-crier (dressed in a tail-coat and sporting a tricorn hat) going round ringing a bell to tell people about the dawn of the new technological era. Seriously.

So very british.