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Brit TV Won't Go Digital Till 2012

Posted by Zonk on from the bad-reception-across-the-pond dept.

judgecorp writes "While the US switches off analog(ue) TV in 2009, it stays on in the UK till 2012, according to a timetable, the Digital Dividend Review released by the UK regulator Ofcom. And while the US taxpayer will fork out $3 billion, there's no mention of government subsidising the switchover in the UK - apart from the licence fee which Brits pay for the BBC, or course. The good news is that the 112 prime MHz of spectrum freed up will be used for wireless broadband, rural coverage for wireless services, and unlicensed spectrum for data. All things that will keep us so busy, we won't bother to watch TV, anyway."

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  1. Re:What Does Brit TV Have to Do With Politics?!! by dorkygeek · · Score: 2, Funny
    D'oh, Canada and Britain aren't part of the US?? I thought we had only kicked out France?!

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  2. Re:damn it by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny
    Can we stop the "brits" thing. We don't go around calling the French, Germans or Polish "Europeans" yet we still get that crappy label (which very few support) from Americans.

    The Frogs, Krauts, and Polacks say don't be so sensitive.

  3. There's something unnerving... by IANAAC · · Score: 4, Funny

    about seeing an American flag behind a British TV story.

  4. The ultimate avoidance by itsownreward · · Score: 2, Funny

    They are just hoping that the Maya were right and the world ends on the winter solstice in 2012. That way, there's the off chance that they don't have to make the switch.

  5. Re:Didn't he expel the Romans by Bloke+down+the+pub · · Score: 2, Funny

    Since when has Rome been in Northern Ireland?

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