Digital Switchover will result in millions of discarded TVs and VCRs
A new survey suggests that due to the digital switch over, approximately 8 million TVs and VCRs will be ditched. The findings were based on a poll of 2,500 UK adults.
Not only will televisions not work but video players will not work in the same way when the analogue signal stops. When the signal changes viewers will no longer be able to watch one channel while recording another, the independent switching service, uSwitch.com explains.
The company estimates that the cost of replacing these VCRs with digital recorders will exceed £1.1bn.
Of the 25 million TV sets yet to “go digital”, nearly five million are incapable of receiving a digital signal and the national bill to make TVs work will exceed £2.2bn.
Fifteen per cent of households plan to throw their old sets away, the poll of 2,599 UK adults shows.
Whitehaven in Cumbria will be the first place in the UK to switch to digital in October.
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