Digital TV: Choice or Cobblers?
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- The Tribe, October 2000
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Picture the scene: it's Friday night. You're at home, watching TV.
Sad, huh? Have you really nothing better to do than sit and home on a Friday night, watching TV?
But bear with me.
It's Friday night. You're at home, watching TV.
There's nothing on.
All too believable, isn't it? Cos, let's face it, television these days is rubbish. It used to be so much better, but nowadays, blowing your nose is more entertaining and at least the gossip mags aren't full of interviews with C-list, talentless celebrity nose-blowers and their unattractive, vacuous partners.
And that's with five channels. Remember the days when all you had was BBC1, BBC2 and ITV? The youngest readers (shouldn't you be reading "Topsy and Tim" books or something?) probably won't even be able to remember that far back and will have always lived with Channel 4, at least.
Wouldn't it be good if there were some other channels, filled with better programmes? Or even with some of the good programmes that used to be on television, before television production became populated with desperate-to-be-trendy, ex-public school, haven't-got-a-clue media graduates who think that riding on pavements on scooters, wearing ironic T-shirts and talking like Jamie Oliver will mean even their biggest ideas won't be so laughable that anyone with any taste and decency who met them and discovered they were responsible for the abortions starring Robson Green that populate our screen under the title of "popular drama" would be instantly mandated under Geneva Convention to punch them senseless until their smug, toffee-nosed, talentless faces are unrecognisable?
Well there is. Almost. It's called digital television.
But isn't television digital already? No, it isn't, any more than your old record player is (sorry youngsters, I've probably lost you there, again. I meant "decks"). In fact, the difference between normal "analogue" television and digital television is like the difference between LPs and CDs. Except with pictures as well.
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