The digital switchover in our area last August was a huge pain - no point at all in my opinion as I rarely watch other channels only the main ones. The message on the screen was really annoying, it appeared so often and obscured part of the screen for what seemed ages. Now we are fully digital its still a massive pain as the picture freezes at regular intervals and the sound cuts off for a few seconds often missing vital speech. People say we need a digital aerial but at what price? - no thanks, we've already bought a new TV with Freeview, our video is a pain to work through our Sky (thank goodness we have that or it meant buying a new digital recorder) and my lovely little Casio 5" screen portable TV I used to take out in the car or on holiday is now defunct!!! In addition the Ceefax information is extremely poor now it has switched to digital, lots of info gone and not updated often enough, and no breaking news etc etc. What has this silly switchover cost us all? Grrr! Its a regular rant of mine!! :(