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Digital TV experts advise European disability body

European Disability Forum (EDF), the umbrella body representing disability organizations from 27 European Union (EU) member states, has appointed Digital Technology Advisory (DTA) to advise on member relations with consumer electronics manufacturers and TV broadcasters, pre- and post- the analogue to digital television switchover currently being deployed across the EU.

UK-based DTA provides consultancy advice on the creation, implementation and distribution of digital information and entertainment. The company is currently advising on the creation of open technology standards in conjunction with Digital TV Group (DTG), the industry association for digital television in the UK, and is working with the European Commission on the creation of EU open standards for broadcasting.
DTA has recently been advising the Royal National Institute for Blind People (RNIB) on a project to integrate for the first time text-to-speech technology into latest generation digital television (DTV) set-top boxes, launching in the UK later this year (2009).
An independent European non-governmental organisation, EDF represents the interests of 50 million disabled people in the EU and is the only European platform of disabled people, run by disabled people or the families of disabled people unable to represent themselves.
More information at http://www.edf-feph.org

Issued June 2009 by
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EDITOR NOTES:
About Digital Technology Advisory (DTA)
DTA is a knowledge pool associated with digital communication. It provides

• consultancy
• strategy
• management services

to all parties associated with the creation and implementation of digital information and entertainment and its distribution to end users via increasingly intuitive screen-based technologies.
DTA also fields expert knowledge of all existing platforms in addition to how they, and converging and emerging technologies, will affect the consumer.

About the UK Digital TV switchover
The digital switchover in the UK has already started and ends around 2012. The dates for switchover are as follows:
Border has already started and finishes in 2009
West Country starts in April 2009 and finishes in September 2009
Granada switches in 2009
Wales starts in August 2009 and finishes in 2010
STV North switches in 2010
STV Central switches between 2010 and 2011
West switches between 2010 and 2011
Channel Islands switch in 2010
Central, Yorkshire and Anglia switch in 2011
Meridian switches between 2011 and 2012
London switches in 2012
Tyne Tees and Ulster switch in 2012
More information at http://www.digitaluk.co.uk/home

About the UK Switchover Help Scheme
Run by the BBC, the Switchover Help Scheme is devised to assist specific user groups.
People are eligible if:
They are aged 75 or over
They have lived in a care home for six months or more
They get (or could get) disability living allowance, or attendance or constant attendance allowance, or mobility supplement, or
They are registered blind or partially sighted
More information at http://www.helpscheme.co.uk