Core Receiver Requirements for the Digital Switchover Help Scheme Consultation
This consultation has now ended. The consultation period was 1 September - 13 October 2008.
The Digital Switchover Help Scheme assists people aged 75 years and over, people in receipt of certain benefits or who are registerd blind or partially sighted, to convert to digital TV services.
The second edition of the Core Receiver Requirements and Responses to this consultation was published on 11 November 2008.
Assistance consists of providing necessary equipment to convert one TV set and the relevant help to install and use such equipment, including where necessary provision of appropriate set-top aerial or aerial upgrades. Any equipment offered under the Help Scheme must in general be suitable for an older or disabled person to use. Core Receiver Requirements (CRR) for the equipment have been developed in conjunction with the BBC, Digital UK and BERR. Now that the Help Scheme has been operating for a little while, we believe that the existing CRR would benefit from some revision to reflect lessons learnt.
The Department is therefore consulting on changes to the CRR covering platform neutrality, energy use of equipment offered under the Help Scheme and requirements for the remote control handsets made available under the Scheme.
Consultation documents
This consultation has now ended. The consultation period was 1 September - 13 October 2008.
The second edition of the Core Receiver Requirements and Responses to this consultation was published on 11 November 2008.
If you have any queries about this consultation please contact:
Vicky Tickle victoria.tickle@culture.gsi.gov.uk
Department for Culture, Media and Sport, 2-4 Cockspur Street, London SW1Y 5DH
For queries of a technical nature, please contact:
Nick Tanton nick.tanton@bbc.co.uk
BBC, The Media Centre, Media Village 201 Wood Lane, London W12 7TQ
Confidentiality of information
Information provided in response to this consultation, including personal information, may be published or disclosed in accordance with the access to information regimes (these are primarily the Freedom of Information Act 2000 (FOIA), the Data Protection Act 1998 (DPA) and the Environmental Information Regulations 2004).
If you want the information that you provide to be treated as confidential, please be aware that, under the FOIA, there is a statutory code of practice with which public authorities must comply and which deals, among other things, with obligations of confidence. In view of this, it would be helpful if you could explain to us why you regard the information you have provided as confidential.
If we receive a request for disclosure of the information, we will take full account of your explanation, but we cannot give an assurance that confidentiality can be maintained in all circumstances. An automatic confidentiality disclaimer generated by your IT system will not, of itself, be regarded as binding on the Department.
The Department will process your personal data in accordance with the DPA and in most circumstances this will mean that your personal data will not be disclosed to third parties.
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These documents are available online in Adobe Acrobat (.pdf) format.
