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90% of UK now receiving digital TV
By CMU Editorial | Published on Tuesday 30 June 2009
Almost 90% of British households now have digital TV, according to latest OfCom figures. That means that the main TV set in 18 million homes is accessing Freeview, Freesat, Sky, Virgin, BT Visions or similar. Those stats help justify the turn off of analogue TV signals around the UK, a process that has already begun in some areas. Though it continues to ignore how many houses with digital TV still have analogue sets elsewhere in the house, all of which will become useless once analogue signals are switched off for good. Sales of Freeview set top boxes have gone down recently as more people buy TVs with terrestrial digital receivers inbuilt, though I imagine there’ll be another uplift once analogue switch off comes to more urban areas, and as people have to turn those aforementioned old school portable TVs digital.
