[vicsireland] Re: Campaign on move to digital TV urged
- From: "Tony Sweeney" <tonysweeney@xxxxx>
- To: <vicsireland@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 2 Apr 2009 14:50:50 +0100
Hi Tim,
Thanks for that!
Keep us posted further.
Tony
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From: "Tim Culhane" <tim.culhane@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <vicsireland@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, April 02, 2009 12:10 PM
Subject: [vicsireland] Campaign on move to digital TV urged
Hi,
Below is from today's Irish Times:
LUKE CASSIDY
A CAMPAIGN to highlight the switch from analogue to digital television
broadcast services needs to be implemented immediately, an Oireachtas
Communications
Committee heard yesterday.
TVAccess, a coalition of organisations in the disability and ageing sector,
told the committee of the need to start the campaign early to "make sure the
most vulnerable and hard to reach don't get left behind".
Under EU rules all televisions in the State will have to make the switch
from analogue to digital by 2012. The roll-out of Digital Terrestrial
Television
(DTT) is scheduled to begin later this year and all analogue signals will be
switched off on January 1st, 2012.
Dr Mark Magennis from the National Council of the Blind Ireland (NCBI) told
the committee of the threat of social exclusion facing the elderly and
disabled
by the switchover.
He said the "lack of subtitles and sign language, lack of easy-to-use remote
controls for people with dexterity issues, inaccessible customer equipment
and the extra costs associated with switching" were all reasons people could
become socially excluded.
"In these times of economic problems it is going to be very important to do
this cost-effectively so we don't end up in 2012 with a bunch of people who
still haven't been able to make the switch.
Joan O'Donnell of the Disability Federation of Ireland told the committee
that the Government needs to look at the switchover as "a broad social
issue".
She said as people get older there is a higher incidence of disability,
"especially sensory" and that the Government needs to ensure they are
included
in the roll-out scheme.
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