General   (General discussion, talk about anything.)

In the coming years I think you are going to see a big change in the way you receive and view free TV.

Do you remember when everyone had what were eventually called 'analogue televisions' which depending on when you were born, you manually tuned each TV channel button to each of the 3,4 or 5 UHF colour TV channels, which started to become available from the late 1960s onwards.

In 1998 terrestrial digital TV was launched which allowed for hundreds of TV channels to be broadcast from places like the Winter Hill mast, which transmits to this part of the country, and 15 years later the analogue TV channels were switched off LINK before that the VHF black and white TV channels were switched off in 1985 and in about ten years time, maybe sooner the Winter Hill TV mast will be switched off

By then you will only be able to watch terrestrial TV via the internet, that is another reason why Open Reach are slowly but surely switching off standard land line phone lines, and switching the phone lines over to a broadband only connection, requiring folk to have a broadband router, to which the telephone will have to be plugged into, that is so that all properties with a BT/Open Reach phone line, will be able to keep on receiving free terrestrial TV when the TV masts are switched off.

At the moment each of the five main free TV channels have their own way for you to receive their live TV via the internet.

BBC1 - iPlayer
BBC2 - iPlayer
ITV - ITVX
Channel 4 - channel4.com
Channel 5 - channel5.com

But to streamline the move to online TV only, the main five terrestrial TV channels have got together to produce just one way to receive the online TV channels, and like Freeview distribute terrestrial TV by TV masts like Winter Hill, a new service which is called 'Freely' will distribute the Freeview content by the internet LINK new TV's will have 'Freely' built in to them, so that to use it you either plug your TV into the internet via a cable to your router or by wi-fi to your router, so basically instead of plugging an aerial into the back of your TV you will plug in your phone line (via a broadband router) instead.

So surely that will alter the way that programs are broadcast, because I think that those five main free TV channels will just morph into platforms like Netflix etc and you will just pick and choose what to watch when you want to watch it, including everything on the BBC who has far as I am concerned can go and shove their license fee up their left wing biased, white folk hating, minorities loving, bottom