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The UK Transition to Digital is D-Day minus 2 days

< ![CDATA[The wait has been long but the transition to full digital TV in the UK begins in two days time. It is a small step with the removal of analogue BBC2, but it is is symbolic.

It is also the start of the pain as ordinary people suddenly need to learn about just how many obsolete TVs have been sold in the last two years that were analogue only and how much they are going to have to relearn how this all connects together.

The ordinary British public do not have the understanding about how TV signals pass through all of that electronics to finally display a picture on the screen. The vast majority of the public still have the aerial (RF) feed passing into their standard analogue VCR, out of that and into the back of the Digital box (DTT or Satellite, and possibly even Cable) and out again into the back of the TV. This is in addition to the SCARTs from both the VCR and the Digital box to the TV (via each other in some instances). And the final step is that they have 'tuned' the TV to the Digital box… completely wasting the higher quality RGB signal path from their Digital box to the TV. All this without actually having the excuse of using the analogue TV channels as backup.

This will have to change, to allow the British public to gain maximum benefit from the digital transition. The benefit of having a high quality signal path from the Digital box to the TV via only the SCART connection – with the RF being terminated at the Digital box alone.]]>

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