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D & L Blinds The UK’s digital tV switchover
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of your own home Tel: 01793 873096 Do you get your TV via an aerial and receive BBC Points West? Then
contact paul on 01793 619428 Mob: 07913 your TV signal is most likely coming from the Mendip transmitter
and the information here applies to you.
www.dandlblinds.co.uk 444076 If you receive South Today, your aerial points towards the Oxford
FREE qUotEs no oBLigAtion
transmitter which will switch over in 2011.
Digital TV switchover means:
• If you are still watching analogue TV from an aerial and you have not
taken steps to switch to digital, you will lose all your TV channels;
• If you have Freeview, Top Up TV or BT Vision, you’ll need to re-tune
• Carpets • Wood • Laminate your equipment again or you will lose TV channels at switchover;
• VinyL • UnderLay • aCCessories • You will not be affected by switchover if you have satellite (eg from
no gimmicks, no sales, no promotions Sky or Freesat) or cable TV (eg from Virgin Media) on all your TV sets.
just the right price and the true value The West TV region switches in two stages:
Home seLeCtion serViCe Stage one: 24 March 2010. The analogue BBC 2 signal is switched off
Personal estimating service - no obligation or charge and Freeview extends to reach all areas for the first time.
Fitting service by qualified & professional fitters Stage two: 7 April 2010. The rest of the analogue channels are switched
call Mike edwards off and the remaining Freeview channels become available in all areas
01793 480777 or 07834 685871 for the first time.
8 Wood street, old town, swindon sn1 4aB You almost certainly won’t have to buy a new TV.
www.flooringcomplete.co.uk
• Almost any TV can be converted with a digital box, even black and
white ones. Most digital boxes connect to a TV using a SCART cable. If
your TV doesn’t have a SCART socket, you will need to ask for a digital
Save £1000’s on box which connects via the aerial socket.
your new kitchen • Thinking of getting a new TV or TV recorder? Look for one with the
www.nuimagekbb.co.uk with: digital tick logo as shown on the opposite page. This means it’s designed
to work during and after the switchover.
Replacement Need help with the switch?
Doors The excellent Switchover Help Scheme is run by the BBC, in agreement
with government. For £40 (free to those on certain benefits), it gives full
and practical help to eligible older and disabled people to make the
A HUGE CHOICE switch to digital TV on any one TV set.
Our range of ‘made to The Switchover Help Scheme will help everyone who is aged 75 or over,
measure’ door and drawer or has lived in a care home for six months or more, or gets (or could
fronts are available in solid get) certain disability benefits, or is registered blind/partially sighted.
woods or vinyl wrapped The Help Scheme has written to all eligible people, and to take up the
finishes. offer everyone who has received a mailing needs to reply. To see if you
are eligible or if it is free to you or for just more information, visit www.
EXTRA UNITS AND helpscheme.co.uk or call 0800 40 85 907.
APPLIANCES
Additional cabinets can Questions? Problems?
be made to your existing Visit West Swindon’s free Advice Point drop-in
BELLA DOORS sizes, and we can also surgeries. See the advert opposite for times and dates
supply appliances, sinktops,
V.A.T. FREE THIS MONTH accessories and worktops. More information is available at www.digitaluk.co.uk or call 08456 50 50 50.
A family run business with other 20 years experience, offering
good old fashioned service with modern ideas and methods. Digital UK is the not-for-profit organisation responsible for leading
the UK digital switchover.
SHOWROOM OPEN: Tuesday to Friday 10am - 4pm;
Saturday 10am - 2pm or by appointment On behalf of Digital UK, Age
Concern Wiltshire (which is 60
FREE Computerised design and quotation without obligation. years old this year) is respon-
Call 01793 644600 sible for spreading switchover
information and giving support
39 BSS House, Cheney Manor Ind. Estate, Swindon SN2 2PJ to the vulnerable and elderly
across the Wiltshire and Swin-
don areas of our West TV region.

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