In this (EU) country they also went digital, for the transmitted stuff, but since everybody has cable, and cable also does analog it had zero impact really.
So doesn't the UK have massive cable too?
Personally I wish they went REALLY digital and also went for a progressive scan/HDTV format already if they want to go digital.
Plus the cable companies here although having 'free' digital too require a smartcard to watch it, and I hear it's sneakingly used to poll and create statistics on what channel people are watching, both of which repel me frankly, you should be glad f they don't do that in your area.

Whitehaven has had its analogue signal switched off since October 2007.

This article will come as some surprise to the Inquirer's very own Andrew Thomas and the hundreds of other people in the British media who wrote about the first region having its analogue TV transmitters shut down last year:

http://www.theinquirer.net/gb/inquirer/news/2007/10/17/bbc-switches-analogue-tv

Well if so many homes have digital TV carnt they speed up the Switch over process?