[opendtv] Freeview selected for West Country Switchover help
- From: "Manfredi, Albert E" <albert.e.manfredi@xxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 30 Sep 2008 17:42:31 -0400
Looks more expensive to make the switch in the UK, except for an eligible
subset of people. And it looks like some regions will be going to Freesat by
default, rather than DTT.
I'm wondering why the percentage of viewers using Freesat won't soon outnumber
Freeview. That same DTG web site says 100,000 have gone to Freesat since March.
Bert
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http://www.dtg.org.uk/news/news.php?class=countries&subclass=0&id=3134
Freeview selected for West Country Switchover help
The Switchover Help Scheme has chosen Freeview as the standard offer of
practical help for eligible older and disabled people in the ITV West Country
region. Those aged over 75, registered blind or partially sighted or are
entitled to certain disability benefits.
Eligible people in the ITV West Country region will be offered a Freeview set
top box installed on one of their TVs, at a subsidised cost of £40, or free if
they also get income benefits. They will also be offered a demonstration of how
to use the equipment.
The Switchover Help Scheme will also test eligible people's aerial, if they own
one, and upgrade it if needed to receive the digital signal, for the same cost.
People unable to receive television through an aerial will be offered satellite
equipment instead (Freesat from BBC and ITV).
The Help Scheme determines the standard offer, or most cost effective option,
in each successive switchover region following a process set out in the Scheme
Agreement between the Government and the BBC.
The standard offer in the ITV Border region, which will be the first area to
switch to digital, is a Sky satellite system. Sky did not make a bid to be
standard offer in the West Country.
DTG Staff 30.09.2008
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