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Digital TV experts
advise European disability body
European Disability
Forum (EDF), the umbrella body representing disability organizations from
27 European Union (EU) member states, has appointed Digital Technology
Advisory (DTA) to advise on member relations with consumer electronics
manufacturers and TV broadcasters, pre- and post- the analogue to digital
television switchover currently being deployed across the EU.
An independent European
non-governmental organisation, EDF represents the interests of 50 million
disabled people in the EU and is the only European platform of disabled
people, run by disabled people or the families of disabled people unable
to represent themselves.
UK-based DTA provides
consultancy advice on the creation, implementation and distribution of
digital information and entertainment. The company is currently advising
on the creation of open technology standards in conjunction with Digital
TV Group (DTG), the industry for digital television in the
UK, and is working with the European Commission on the creation of EU
open standards for broadcasting.
More information at
http://www.edf-feph.org
and www.dtaltd.co.uk
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EDITOR NOTES:
About Digital Technology
Advisory (DTA)
DTA is a knowledge pool
associated with digital communication. It provides
- consultancy
- strategy
- management services
to all parties associated
with the creation and implementation of digital information and
entertainment and its distribution to end users via increasingly
intuitive screen-based technologies.
DTA also fields expert
knowledge of all existing platforms in addition to how they, and
converging and emerging technologies, will affect the consumer.
More information at
www.dtaltd.co.uk
About the UK Digital TV
switchover
The digital switchover in
the UK has already started and ends around 2012. The dates for switchover
are as follows:
- Border has already
started and finishes in 2009
- West Country starts
in April 2009 and finishes in September 2009
- Granada switches in
2009
- Wales starts in
August 2009 and finishes in 2010
- STV North switches
in 2010
- STV Central
switches between 2010 and 2011
- West switches
between 2010 and 2011
- Channel Islands
switch in 2010
- Central, Yorkshire
and Anglia switch in 2011
- Meridian switches
between 2011 and 2012
- London switches in
2012
- Tyne Tees and
Ulster switch in 2012
More information at
http://www.digitaluk.co.uk/home
About the UK Switchover
Help Scheme
Run by the BBC, the
Switchover Help Scheme is devised to assist specific user groups.
People are eligible if:
- They are aged 75 or
over
- They have lived in
a care home for six months or more
- They get (or could
get) disability living allowance, or attendance or constant
attendance allowance, or mobility supplement, or
- They are registered
blind or partially sighted
More information at
http://www.helpscheme.co.uk/en/home/index.php
