The switchover programme in the UK has been an unqualified success, and the vast majority of the heavy lifting in terms of 'switchers' has already been done.
What the digital switchover is actually doing is changing the language that TV broadcasters use to communicate with your television.
The switchover is complex: not only do the new bills and coins have to be distributed, but the old notes and coins have to be collected.
The digital switchover is introducing a new language, a new set of broadcast standards, this one designed by the Advanced Television Systems Committee.
The switchover is now unstoppable.
After the digital switchover is completed in 2012 Sky and ESPN will have a 90% reach.
Almost the entire country is now ready for it, despite the fact that the official switchover is not until 2012.
The chances of that money ever being returned for the free decision of the BBC, after switchover is complete, are slim.
Digital switchover is due to be completed on 24 October, when analogue broadcasting ends in the final region to go through the process, Northern Ireland.
A phenomenological model capturing the switchover is proposed.
