over the course of the NUMBER_TOKENs the internet began to make its way into private households on a large scale from the beginning it also competed with teletext over which the internet was technically clearly superior and at the turn of the millennium not only did the internet lead to digitization but television would also be brought into a new era in what is perhaps the biggest transformation in the history of television nations worldwide started transitioning from analog broadcasting to digital tv a piece of broadcasting history is about to be made here the rest of the uk is going to follow suit and by NUMBER_TOKEN the whole of the united kingdom will have gone digital the switchover was necessary at a time when modern workflows in video and sound are completely digitized and it made it possible for people to receive a greater number of different tv programs which could be transmitted in better quality for digital tv a lower frequency range is necessary with the shutdown of analog transmission those frequencies could then be used for NUMBER_TOKENg internet as time consuming as the switchover was it made it possible for television to further develop in many different ways the long-existing hd standard was finally able to really become the norm and stations developed alternatives to teletext that offered more capabilities it is possible to continue teletext even if the mode of transmission were to change but for many broadcasters it seemed much more appropriate to use this digital transition in order to bury this outdated technology as well the bbc fully replaced cfx with its red button service a more capable digital version of the same idea with a design that isn't as limited when the last analog signal in the uk was switched off in northern ireland on october NUMBER_TOKEN NUMBER_TOKEN cfax the world's first teletext also ended its service after NUMBER_TOKEN years of operation analog television has seen many technological advances and additions since the days of baird and marconi now though we enter a new era of broadcasting as this becomes a fully digital uk from the analog bbc television service good night and goodbye
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