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Switchover Timetable

  • 2007: Digital Switchover started with Whitehaven
  • 2008: Border region switchover started
  • 2009: Granada, West Country & Wales regions
  • 2010: West, STV North & STV Central regions
  • 2011: Anglia, Central & Yorkshire regions
  • 2012: London, Meridian, Tyne Tees & Ulster regions
Next to switch: STV North - May to Oct 2010

 

Featured Service:

BT Vision Set-top box

BT Vision: Digital TV plus on-demand TV shows and films. Available to BT Broadband customers.

BT Vision Explained

 

Need help with the UK Digital Switchover?

 

It can't have escaped your notice that we're slowly getting closer to the Digital Switchover. By 2012, BBC1, BBC2, ITV, Channel 4 and Five will stop broadcasting on standard analogue TV. To watch TV after your region switches, you'll need to have a digital set-top box or a TV set that has a built-in digital TV receiver.

 

On this site, we offer some practical help and advice on how to get digital TV, and answer your digital switchover questions. We also look at services like Freeview, Freesat, Sky, BT Vision and Virgin Media to see what's right for you.

 

Digital Switchover Checklist:

Think you're ready for the UK Digital TV Switchover? Some things to check...

 

1. Can you get digital channels, such as BBC3, ITV2 & E4?
2. Checked the other TV sets in your house?
3. What about your video and DVD recorders?
4. Can you watch one digital channel while recording another?

See our Digital TV checklist

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