I agree with the comments expressed by J Collins (Aug 30) regarding the downside of digital TV.

I have a number of sets which receive perfectly acceptable pictures from the analogue transmitters using set-top loop aerials.

However, with the impending switch off of analogue the estimates I have received for extra aerials, amplifiers, splitters, cable runs and set-top boxes has been astronomical, and for what benefit?

To receive dozens of channels that will not be watched.

We are led to believe that every advance in technology will be far better than that it replaces, but this is simply not the case. For example, I have audio cassette tapes that are nearly 40 years old and still play fine, by contrast recordable CDs have failed to play after only a year or so.

Likewise video cassettes still play after 20 years, but with recordable DVDs the life span is even less than that of the recordable CD.

Progress? I don’t think so.

Graham Gowland
Canewdon Hall Close
Canewdon