REGARDING your article Are we ready for digital TV?' (Globe, April 9), well yes, certainly - my wheelie bin is already open to receive my television once analogue TV is switched off.

If the televison companies think that anyone would spend one penny on a new television to continue receiving the moronic filth, the mindless chat shows with denim-clad scruffbags with nothing to say, and American sit-coms which you could only watch under a full anaesthetic, well I, for one, will not be.

My ageing TV is already gathering dust in the corner as, like most people now, old and young, we prefer our computers, e-mails, internet etc.

Television has served us well over the years, especially before political correctness shut down every sort of comedy. Television, unless it shakes itself up drastically, is on its way out.

Commercial television producers have not yet latched onto the fact that everyone now has a sound muting switch on their sets and still accompany adverts with some sort of sound, not realising only the stone deaf have not switched the sound to mute.

Even the news programmes now are so stereotyped - I can watch them with the sound off and still know what they are about, providing I can pick up the radio news around say 8am.

Pamela Roberts,

Elm Road,

Prenton

2:28pm Tuesday 29th April 2008

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