Index
Introduction
1. Facts about digital television
?Digital television platforms
?Interactivity and digital television
?Electronic Programme Guide (EPG)
?History of UK digital television broadcasting
?Uptake of Digital television in the UK
?Digital television in other countries
?The European Dimension to Switchover
2. Coverage and Spectrum
?Analogue Terrestrial Coverage
?Digital Terrestrial Coverage
?Spectrum planning for switchover
?Set top reception
?International Spectrum Planning
?Coverage of non-terrestrial digital television
?Technical trials
3. Digital Switchover
?The Process of Digital Switchover
?Switchover Implementation Body (Switchco)
?Government Policy and the Digital Television Project
?Cost Benefit Analysis
?Progress towards Switchover - Ofcom and BBC reports
4. Digital Switchover and the consumer
?Ofcom Consumer Panel
?Consumer Expert Group Report
?Attitudes to Digital Television and Digital Switchover
?Usability and accessibility
?Accessibility for disabled people
?Planning permission for satellite dishes
?Communal Aerial Systems and Landlord/Tenant Issues