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Report: 66% of U.K. Households Have Digital TV

Authored by Mark Hefflinger on December 12, 2005 - 3:53am.
London - According to the latest Digital Television Update by U.K. telecommunications regulator Ofcom, nearly 66% of U.K. households have digital TV. Ofcom said the number of digital TV households increased by 5.9% in the July-September period, from approximately 63% of total households to 65.9%. As of Sept. 30, the total number of households viewing digital TV grew by more than 760,000 to almost 16.5 million, Ofcom said. The report also found that there were more than 1 million sales of Freeview set-top boxes and TVs with integrated Digital Terrestrial Television tuners over the same period, a 55% year-on-year increase.
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Report: 60% of U.K. Households Now Have Digital TV

Authored by Mark Hefflinger on July 13, 2005 - 10:16am.
London -- The latest figures from U.K. communications watchdog Ofcom show a dramatic increase in the adoption of digital technology in the U.K. Ofcom's second-annual Communications Market report found that more than 60% of U.K. households now have digital TV, while sales of DAB radio sets increased to more than 1.5 million early this year. Each month, approximately 250,000 households switch to digital TV, a boom driven by Freeview, which has increased its total subscriber numbers to more than 4.6 million households. For the first time ever, more households (30%) have broadband connections than dial-up Internet, leading the regulator to predict that, by the year 2010, more people will watch TV on the Internet than on analog TV. "This report shows that U.K. households are now accelerating into the digital age," said Ofcom's Ed Richards. "In parallel, industries formed over decades are being reshaped by digital broadcasting and broadband with every month that passes."
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