Viewers may have to replace TV sets

TELEVISION viewers could have to replace every TV set in their household within six years under Government plans for digital-only broadcasting.

Yesterday, the Government announced a trial scheme for a digital terrestrial television (DTT) service, which broadcasts via the airwaves to new sets capable of receiving digital signals.

By 2012, the Government plans to axe current analogue transmissions entirely and replace them with broadcasts using digital signals only.