What does digital TV switchover mean for residents?
Posted on 2nd May at 10:44 AM
If you live in a flat or share an aerial with another household it is likely that you receive your TV signal through a communal TV aerial system. A large number of these will need to be upgraded or adapted to receive digital TV. Check with your landlord or managing agent to find out whether your building is ready to recieve digital TV.
Once you have checked that your building is able to recieve a digital TV signal, you will need to upgrade or adapt all existing TV equipment - If you haven’t already done so.
Adapting or upgrading TV equipment can be simple and inexpensive. The simplest way is to connect a digital box to your TV set. Alternatively you can replace your existing TV with a Integrated Digital TV (IDTV) which is a TV with a digital box built in which provides Freeview through an aerial.
There are four main ways to receive a digital TV signal through a digital box:
- Through a satellite dish (Sky, Freesat from Sky)
- Through an existing aerial (Freeview, Top Up TV, BT Vision)
- Through a cable (Virgin Media, Smallworld)
- Through a phoneline (Tiscali)
To check what is available in your area, enter the postcode of your property in to the Postcode Checker.
In a limited number of cases, some households may be currently receiving TV through an analogue cable service. (e.g. Wrights Radio Relay). The individual service providers will decide if they continue to provide these services after switchover.
For more information on getting digital TV
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