6 October 2008
Television viewers in Scotland are being invited to enter a new competition to find the country's oldest working TV set. The contest is being launched by Ian Logie Baird, the grandson of John Logie Baird, who is credited with inventing the world's first television system in the 1920s. It aims to dispel the myth that consumers need to buy modern TV sets ahead of the digital switchover, which will take place in the Scottish borders this November and in parts of south west Scotland next summer. Paul Hughes, National Manager of Digital UK, said: "Any old television can be converted, even if it's a television that works via the old style aerial socket and doesn't have a scart plug in it," the BBC reports. The winner of the competition will have their old television switched to digital for free in a bid to prove that expensive new equipment is not required. Dates for the switch to digital TV have also been set for the Isle of Man and most parts of Cumbria, with analogue signals being switched off in these areas from June 18th 2009.
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