Going digital

Jaxxland and district has the privilege of being the first area in the UK to switch over entirely to digital TV. There are conflicting suggestions over whether the move has been well publicised or if local families are going to lose contact with the outside world as of midnight.

What seems to be less on the lips of the 'experts' expounding their various viewpoints is why digital is such a good idea in the first place? For some punters it seems to be just another consumer rip-off stunt like a football club changing the design of its away strip, yet again.

The other imponderable is what is going to happen to all the old, abandoned analogue sets which have either found their way to the skip or are about to become regular kerbside features in this part of the world. Do they get scrapped, exported or recycled?

Well, at least someone is making a start.