TV seems to have got a lot better recently. Begun watching a lot more programs. Combined with the increasing amount of content being consumed on RSS, I now have very little real time to do any coding or blogging.

• Star Trek: Enterprise (Channel 4, Sunday 16:00) *
• Stargate SG-1 (Channel 4, Sunday 15:00)
• Stargate Atlantis (Five, Hiatus)
• Andromeda (ITV4, Tuesday 20:00)
• Quantum Leap (ITV3, Weekdays 18:00)
• Star Trek: Voyager (Five, Saturday 19:00)
• Big Brother (Channel 4, Daily 21:00)

Science fiction destroyed my life.

Freeview is really great when you want multi-channel digital TV and you don’t want to feed Murdoch. It’s a quickly growing platform with new channels coming all the time – C4US showing US imports is planned, FilmFour may go free on Freeview (replacing E4+1 and More4+1). ITV Kids is set to launch next year broadcasting in space from ITV News Channel. Two new channels from Five are planned: Five.2 will be a 24 hour general entertainment channel whilst Five.3 is rumoured to be a film channel. Digital Spy is great for following television and media news.

The UK digital switch off is set to start in just two years time with the country switching off by ITV regions. The Channel region (Jersey) is set to be the last to switch off in 2012.

The great thing about turning off analogue signals is that digital signals can finally be broadcast at full power giving greater reception. At the moment, Freeview broadcasts on low power 2k 16QAM; after the switch over Freeview should be broadcast on the frequencies analogue TV is currently broadcast on at 8k 64QAM. Hopefully it’ll be possible to have high definition with better compression and power boosts.