This is Rubbish Money: £2,000 to go digital

So according to the Daily Mail, analogue switch off could cost up to £2000 per household. Fact. Well it must be cos it's in the paper...

Obviously the Daily Mail is being scammed like mad. £2000 per household? If you're paying that, then clearly you either have more money than sense, or are just being ripped off.

So let's look at some facts - clearly something what Daily Mail writer Matt Born hasn't bothered to do when writing the pile of crap that carries his byline.

Let's assume a set top box costs £40 (there's plenty on the market for that price as a trip to Argos would reveal). To spend £2000 then you'd have to have to buy 50 set top boxes to spend that much.

Okay maybe you need a new aerial. £100. Okay, let's go really mad and say it costs £200 tops. So knock off a few boxes to compensate.

Maybe you need satellite as you can't get Freeview. Okay, fair enough. In which case £2000 would give you 13 Sky boxes, 13 Sky dishes, 13 viewing cards and 13 Sky remote controls - all installed at a cost of £150 each. Not that you would even need 13 Sky dishes - one dish can easily serve 13 boxes.

Maybe if we count the subscription. Ah yes, you can get a whopping 47 months of Sky's top package (£42.50) - that will use up your cash. 47 months. Just under four years...

The Daily Mail. Your daily dose of complete crap. Now with opportunity to scam their writers, cos clearly they wouldn't have a clue you were doing it.