Digital TV will cost us
Most people have not realised yet that to get digital TV when the Government switch off the perfectly adequate and a lot of the time better quality analogue telly they will have to buy a new digital TV or a set top box.
Problem is that all set top boxes have to be plugged into the mains, so watching TV will cost you twice as much as it does now in electricity charges.
If you stop to consider that your TV is one of the most used electrical components in your home and some households may have two or three tellys on, then the average electricity bill is going to shoot up.
Good news for Mr Brown as he will get twice the electricity tax as he was before.
Strange that the Government is preaching to save electricity and reduce carbon emissions, yet it will double electricity consumption of millions of households.
Basically the extra electricity used to power up a set top box a year will wipe out the money saved by a pensioner getting a free TV licence, clever old Mr Brown.
The only fair way to compensate people for the huge increase in charge to watch TV would be for the government to drop the TV licence fee altogether and use the extra electricity tax digital will raise to fund the BBC.
Gordon Fanthom, Swindon.
