Ofcom publishes latest digital households report

[Analoguesat]

1.1 The proportion of households in the UK which received digital television services on their primary TV set increased slightly during the three months to June 2006 to reach 70.2%. This figure is derived using a new calculation methodology (see below).

1.2 However, there were over 1.2 million sales of digital terrestrial television (DTT) equipment and100,000 net subscriber additions to digital pay television services during the quarter, illustrating that a growing number of households are converting secondary television sets.

1.3 With a further 1.8% of households subscribing to analogue cable services in Q2 2006, the total number of homes receiving some form of multi-channel television stood at 72.0%.

Key findings
Key developments in the second quarter of 2006 included:

The number of households with digital TV equipment rose by over 168,000 to reach almost 17.7 million.
There were 1.2 million sales of DTT equipment, marking the fourth consecutive quarter,where sales exceeded one million. Sales were higher than for the equivalent period in 2005 and over the past year total sales have reached almost 5.4 million. Of the 1.2m sales, 736,000 were DTT set top boxes while 488,000 were Integrated Digital Televisions (IDTVs).
DTT-only households grew from 6,387,000 to 6,402,000 over the quarter (using Ofcom’s new methodology), an increase of 15,000.
On satellite, the number of BSkyB UK subscribers rose by 57,000 to 7.7 million. When free-to-view satellite viewers are included, the total number of satellite homes exceeded 8.4 million.
The number of cable subscribers decreased modestly during the quarter to stand at just over 3.3 million. Analogue cable subscriptions fell by 72,000 while digital cable increased by almost 50,000. Digital cable subscribers now account for over 2.8 million, or 86%, of all cable subscribers.
Latest estimates suggest that there are also around 700,000 free-to-view digital satellite homes. This figure includes viewers who use satellite equipment to receive the free-to-view channels.
In total there are now around 7.1 million free-to-view digital households (DTT and free-to-view satellite).

http://www.ofcom.org.uk/research/tv/...v/dtu_2006_q2/

[BGonaSTICK]

Only 700,000 free-to-view digital satellite homes?

Come on people!

The number of folks suffering shitty DTT reception must be enormous!

ARRRRGHHH!