Residents of Sheffield who are currently using Freeview for their digital TV service, may be waking up and switching on the television only to find that the BBC has gone!

The channels have been moved along to make room for the high definition channels that the service is bringing on board, but before viewers panic and jam up the Freeview customer service helpline, they may consider retuning their equipment.

The change will take place today at 0600 hrs.

This will mean that set-top-boxes and integrated tuners within televisions will need to be retuned if the viewer wants to see the BBC once more.

Retuning is relatively easy, as it can all be done from the remote control.

The user simply has to get the menu up on the screen and follow the instructions.

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The BBC is planning to up the stakes in the political debate sector by putting together a series of so called “Cabinet Contender” debates.

One of these debates will bring together two of the hot properties in the world of politics, Peter Mandelson and Kenneth Clark and this debate is likely to attract more attention that the debate between the prospective leaders.

There will be nine contender debates which will be aired on BBC2 in the afternoon at 2.15 pm to 3 pm.

The show will be fronted by the host of the Daily Politics programme, Andrew Neil, who is well known for taking no prisoners during interviews.

Although the Mandelson and Clarke debate is hot, it is not known if the Chancellor, Alistair Darling, and Shadow Chancellor, George Osborne, will also be going head to head on the show.

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The House of Lords has allowed the government’s digital economy bill to slip through its hands by approving it and letting it pass back to the House of Commons for final adjustments and approval.

Yet has enough been said about this bill and do consumers even realise its implications?

It seems that while this bill has been working its way around parliament the average UK person has been preoccupied with work and worrying about how things are going to be in the future.

This bill not only has the potential to cut individual users off from the broadband network, it could also have serious implications for sites like YouTube.

It is highly likely that many websites will close down rather than take the risk of being sued by a copyright owner.

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Lords pass the digital economy bill

The changes made by Ofcom to BT’s rules of operation could see the world of pay TV turned on its head, as the telecom giant and operator of BT Vision could be offering its customers free Premier League as part of a bundled deal.

Currently the satellite operator BSkyB has live Premier League football matches in its pocket, but a deal such as this may break the hold that BSkyB has on the pay-TV market.

It has to be supposed that BT could also apply these promotions to include movies and premium TV shows.

For BT these changes mean being able to offer many more deals to its customers, which improves the service and in theory could encourage new customers to sign up to BT.

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The UK based set-top-box component business, Elonics, has announced that it will be supplying equipment to the Taiwan digital TV service provider CNet.

The arrangement will see CNet taking the Elonics E4000 multi standard silicon tuner for its CCT 770 terrestrial digital TV set-top-box, which comes with full internet access for instant access to online TV.

The set top box will come with HDMI 1080p connectivity, a webcam, access to YouTube, radio and of course video on demand (VoD).

This set-top-box has already been demonstrated at the recent CeBIT2010 expo in Germany.

The unit is smaller than expected and this is all down to the small size of the Elonics digital TV tuner.

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