Philips DTR230

So we’re in the age of digital everything and at first I was wondering what it was all about, I’m in my late forties and have seen the television come a long way since I was a little girl. I remember it was mostly black and white televisions when I was small and I remember the first family to get a colour television on the street I grew up on, we all used to pile round to the house to watch cartoons in colour on a Saturday, but as we got older colour television became the norm, then it was five channels on the television instead of the usual four channels and then came freeview. We really ... more

So, my home town Northampton is now analogue free and the county fully digitized up - in theory. I'm sure there are plenty of pensioners still fiddling with their old valve TVs from the 1950s wondering where the One Show has got to. Trust me guys, you are better off without it. But they certainly didn't mess about here when BBC2 went off last month. I was just like Poltergeist when the little girl is sitting in front of the telly and the national anthem plays out and then that sudden static, although no Stars and Stripes or God Save the Queen for us, which is rather sad as the original ... more