The great digital switchover begins today, from 6.00 a.m. This affects Moel y Parc and its relay group. Concerns from 62 households in Gwyddelwern that their service would suffer appear unfounded.This is all good news for local consumer electronics retailers & aerial specialists. The switchover’s already had another rather interesting spin off: a recent advertising bonanza in the Free Press, as local suppliers, the BBC and Digital UK have all taken out propaganda. Till recently, Digital UK has bought space on the lamp column displays in town. And the whole thing kicked off in Rhuthun in September 2008 with a roadshow on St Peter’s Square (see photo, top).
Today isn’t the main date as it only initially affects BBC2 (stage two comes on 25 November 2009 after which, if you’re not tooled up, the set goes out completely). It should be a painless process but we already know of at least one Rhuthun household having as recently as 2005 bought a TV with built-in Freeview that now requires a set top box to function. The cost was about £30 above the recommended purchase price quoted by Digital TV.Talking of the Free Press, North Wales Newspapers put the cover price up by 5p from 15 October. For the extra 10 per cent, from the 22 October edition, you do actually get some value added content. Page two now has a series of short ‘good news’ village round up stories, entitled The Shire. Whether that’s enough to challenge Y Bedol’s monthly village-by-village coverage remains to be seen. The Shire usefully supplants the huge space given over to how to contact MPs and AMs.
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