Two thirds of UK TVs are digital

Webuser: Sixty-eight per cent of all UK television sets are now digitally linked via cable, satellite or digital terrestrial services.

Industry watchdog Ofcom said in a recent study that householders are continuing to focus on converting their secondary television sets to digital.

Ofcom’s Digital Progress Report for the first quarter of 2008 shows that the total number of digitally linked sets has grown from 33.5 million to 40.5 million in the past twelve months.

There are over 9.6 million homes with Freeview services on their main television set. Sky grew its UK subscriber base to 8.3 million households. The total number of Virgin Media subscribers is now over 3.5 million.

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