Digital TV: Choice or Cobblers?
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- The Tribe, October 2000
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If all these extras channels weren't enough for you, you can also get some stupidly easy games through your TV set as well as slightly wider picture, if you buy a digital box.
Oh that's right. Didn't I mention that? If your television isn't already somewhere near the ceiling, now you've had to fit your video, DVD player, PlayStation, etc underneath it, you'll also need to find space for another box for decoding all those digital signals. And then you'll have to wire it all up without electrocuting yourself or driving yourself insane as you try to work out whether SCART lead 1 is from the digital box and if you've connected it right so the video will be able to record off it or whether it's from the DVD and you'll end up recording a still frame from The Sixth Sense instead of repeats of Starsky and Hutch off Granada Plus.
If digital TV doesn't sound brilliant to you, tough. In five years time, normal television is going to be turned off and it'll be digital or nothing. By which point, the number of channels will have grown exponentially so you'll be able to watch inter-den cub scout football 24-hours a day if you want. Looking forward to it yet?
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