The number of UK households withdigital televisionon their main set
has risen to 21.7 million homes, according toresearchpublished by comms
regulatorOfcom.
The growth has mainly been driven by
Freeview
digital terrestrial television, which saw its second-ever largest
quarterly increase, with almost 2.4 million purchases of Freeview
equipment during the third quarter.
The Ofcom third quarter digital TV progress report also shows
that many consumers - having already converted their primary
television sets to digital - are now upgrading their secondary
television sets in increasing numbers.
The total number of second television sets converted to digital
now stands at nearly 12 million, up by 1.3 million during the
quarter and up by 50% over the past year.