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Digital television and analogue broadcasting
The advent of digital broadcasting is fairly recent in the UK. Free-to-air digital broadcasts have long been seen as an alternative to other television viewing methods such as Sky or Freesat. These both have their own advantages with Sky having many channels and Freesat offering HD (high definition) television. Freeview broadcasting has been very popular in the UK and the channel choice will increase. Digital free-to-air television offers a transition from analogue broadcasting using the existing technology you have in your house. A set-top-box is required to decrypt digital signals that are received through your aerial equipment.
The benefits of digital free-to-view television
Posted by chappus in free-to-view on September 3, 2009
There are many advantages to free-to-air digital terrestrial television. The main one being that Freeview brings more choice to the general television viewing public. For just a small initial outlay on a Freeview set-top-box you have so much more choice when it comes to your channel selection. More channels also means more quality television viewing content, although this can bring questions in itself. The primary benefit of UK wide digital free-to-air television outputs is that this opens the door for more technological breakthroughs.