Digital tv availability

[Jumbuck]

The switchover for my area is not until 2012 but is there a website (or any other way) to know if digital signals are currently available here or, if not, when they will start to be broadcast?

I have been looking at digitaluk.co.uk but that just appears to say that the switchover is not for over 2 years, nothing about any intermediate period prior to the switchover when digital broadcasts wil have started but the analogue signal will still be available.

The bottom line is:- how long before the switchover does the digital signal start to be broadcast?

[Elmek]

have a look here mate
http://www.freeview.co.uk/
ours is supposed to be switched over in 2012 too ( Northern Ireland) check your local postcodes up to a few streets away
i`ve been getting digital tv for 2 years (with a booster) even though freeview say otherwise. only in september they said we could get a limited service ( the usual 5) but the only ones we cant get is sky3 and dave but we can get dave ja vu. try and borrow a freeview box and test it out

[denis567]

Our area, North Yorkshire, and where I lived previously, West Yorkshire are not due to switch over until 2011 ( I think) but I have been able to get all the digital channels for about 5 years, in fact I am on my third digibox.

[Jumbuck]

Thanks for the replies, especially the link to freeview. That says that I can't currently receive any but I wonder if it always says that until the switchover has actually happened?

Before moving within the local area last year, I was able to pick up a few freeview channels using a weak tv signal from a transmitter somewhere, but now, despite living not far from there, I can't seem to receive any. I bought an indoor digital tv antenna yesterday to see if anything is available but unfortunately there's nothing there. Oh well, just have to wait and see, I guess.

[VHG]

> I bought an indoor digital tv antenna yesterday

To pick up digital signals you need a "high gain" roof aerial.

An indoor aerial is not likely to be any good (unless you live next door to the transmitter)

[deggers316]

freeview has been available to all for years unless you live in a very remote area.
the switch-over doest mean analogue off digital on.