Terrestrial vs Digital TV
Terrestrial television or broadcast television is a type of television broadcasting in which the television signal is transmitted by radio waves from the terrestrial (Earth based) transmitter of a television station to a TV receiver having an antenna. There were several channels available in the UK, and they were: BBC One; BBC Two; ITV; Channel 4 and 5. Digital television (DTV) is the transmission of television signals, including the sound channel, using digital encoding, in contrast to the earlier television technology, analog television, in which the video and audio are carried by analog signals. It is an innovative advance that represents the first significant evolution in television technology since colour television in the 1950s. The tv switchover or also referred as “analogue switch off”, from analog to digital tv started on the 17” October 2007 and was completed on the 24” October 2012. The switchover was processed by a company called “DigitalUK”, who created a guide to let co