Resetting the buttons

 Today we're back to the Gogglebox in the corner of the room.

We will almost certainly by the month's end be in another cycle of retuning our televisions, something we seldom did back in the days of analogue 625 line PAL Colour due to some changes.

We may not understand everything about but most of us have heard of 5G, the latest and quickest mobile phone and computing service that today includes streamed media.

It uses frequencies previously used by our television service as it is held we need less "channels" that today one each may hold several whole tv stations than we did in the past.

Well the company EE will from july be using another former Tv channel allocated to it and this means a transmitter that uses Channel 55 will be closed down meaning a few stations will go completely such as Forces TV.

It means the BBC will move BBC Four and CBeebies to another group for HD (High defination) services but because there is no longer space for it the BBC News channel will lose its HD version although to be honest in an era where footage is broadcast from mobile phones in portrait (vertically held) mode by people I don't think it'll be missed that much.

This was expected although Ofcom provides no really guidance in how such shortfalls are to be remedied, leaving it to the companies to sort out.

Some ten years on from switchover completion when London was the last to change over, you might of thought we'd of moved transmissions on the mainstream channels to HD by default given there has been no new  tvs without the ability to accept the transission standard for HD for over eight years and most older sets would of gone to landfill by this point.

The inequitious black set top box can still be had - there is a Humax for around £40 from some stores - for those who still have older sets and in an era where the BBC and ITV companies talk about shortfalls in revenue you do wonder what it costs to produce and transmit the output in both standard and high defination.

It is believed by years end the BBC's studios will be able to send news in HD to the regional BBC 1 set up (Midlands West here) as they didn't invest in the technology to do that which doesn't encourage people to use HD if you're having to flick but and forth.