The Lancashire Telegraph reported that more than 4,000 TVs have been thrown away because of the enforced digital switch-over.

What it didn’t mention was the increase in the number of TVs donated to charity shops or just given away.

Mr N Momoniat is rightly upset at the disruption he has had to endure, but the BBC are not to blame for the problems.

In discussions with employees of the BBC, I was told that it was the Government that imposed the digital switch-over, no doubt encouraged by digital equipment manufacturers.

In fact, most of the licence fee income the BBC receives has had to be invested in digital channels.

The Government and the digital equipment manufacturers are the ones that have profited from the switch-over through increased sales of a system that is not fit for purpose.

The Government will have generated millions in VAT because many households will have needed to buy several digital boxes, especially if they want to record channels that they aren’t watching.

It is the elderly that will be hit the hardest because retuning will puzzle many of them. With different manufacturers there will be different methods of retuning and some of them puzzle me, so how can they expect everyone to cope?

The BBC, like the viewers, had this system forced on them. There was no choice for the BBC, just like there has been no choice for the viewers.

Ian Davies, Openshaw Drive, Blackburn.