Comment Re:Anecdote (Score 1) 223
Why a large, sparsely populated country of ~300 million people would decide to do the switch-over all at once I can't figure out. Maybe THAT'S the easier way and the UK is doing it awkwardly, but it just doesn't seem like that to me.
The switch over to digital was months ago for most stations in most markets. The only thing that happened on Friday was that the analog transmitters were turned off. I don't know of any channel that turned on its digital transmitter for the first time Friday. The converter boxes worked last week, and they still work now. For those stations who kept broadcasting digital on the same channels as they did last week, nothing changed (digitally). However, I have lost several channels that moved on Friday from their previous UHF frequencies to VHF frequencies.