Not long to go until the skips of Britain will be packed with old 14" TVs. That´s right, by 2012 the UK is planning to cease analogue TV broadcasts and go over entirely to digital.
By then most of us will be on digital TV of some kind anyway so it´s not too big a deal. There are a few brigth sides though. Digital is better quality than analogue and the extra bandwidth of digital means that there´s loads more stuff you can do (e.g. interactive).
Secondly it frees up the part of the spectrum that´s currently used by analogue for other stuff. Since it´s a pretty crowded spectrum and there´s already transmitters all over the country then this could be very useful.
Time to go and stick the Simpsons on BBC2 while I can.