Freeview Could Overtake Sky by 2007

http://media.guardian.co.uk/broadcas...176271,00.html

Predictions a

Freeview from 3m now to 10m by 2007
Sky from 7.2m now to 8.9m by 2007
87% will have digital TV by the end of 2007, from ~50% now

15.2m (59% of households) will have digital TV by the end of 2004
Freeview will be in 4.8m homes by end of 2004


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DAB sounds worse than Freeview, digital satellite, cable, broadband
internet and FM

Hardly suprising if analogue signals are due to be turned off at some point
is it?

David


Predictions a

Freeview from 3m now to 10m by 2007
Sky from 7.2m now to 8.9m by 2007
87% will have digital TV by the end of 2007, from ~50% now

15.2m (59% of households) will have digital TV by the end of 2004
Freeview will be in 4.8m homes by end of 2004

David Anthony wrote:
Hardly suprising if analogue signals are due to be turned off at some
point is it?


That and the fact that new TVs will have DVB-T receivers in them. But
the predictions in this report are far more optimistic about digital TV
ownership than the last report I can remember which said that Freeview
sales will slow down drastically this year.


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Steve - http://www.digitalradiotech.co.uk/ - Digital Radio News & Info

DAB sounds worse than Freeview, digital satellite, cable, broadband
internet and FM

That and the fact that new TVs will have DVB-T receivers in them. But
the predictions in this report are far more optimistic about digital TV
ownership than the last report I can remember which said that Freeview
sales will slow down drastically this year.

It seems a bit remiss of a report to say that Freeview sales will decrease
this year. I can see how STB sales will decrease, but I would presume this
would be in line with the growth in the availability of Digital TVs. Quite
a lot of the larger-screen TVs have them now, and I certainly would include
it as a criteria for a new TV.

David

TUTV at 0.000000000000000000000001% anyone?

David Anthony wrote:
That and the fact that new TVs will have DVB-T receivers in them. But
the predictions in this report are far more optimistic about digital
TV ownership than the last report I can remember which said that
Freeview sales will slow down drastically this year.

It seems a bit remiss of a report to say that Freeview sales will
decrease this year. I can see how STB sales will decrease, but I
would presume this would be in line with the growth in the
availability of Digital TVs. Quite a lot of the larger-screen TVs
have them now, and I certainly would include it as a criteria for a
new TV.


Just having a quick browse around argos.co.uk for TVs and they've only
got 4 iDTVs, yet there's loaads of standard analogue TVs.

To be perfectly honest a digital tuner would be pretty much at the
bottom of my list of features because I've already got a Pioneer set-top
box which performs perfectly well, I'd be far more interested in the
TV's performance in terms of picture quality, and it's far cheaper to
change buy another set-top box than it is to buy another TV. Say you
wanted Top-Up TV after you'd just bought an iDTV that doesn't have a
card reader in it, you wouldn't be very happy... Same goes with surround
sound; if anyone started transmitting surround sound and your expensive
iDTV cannot handle it then you're screwed, whereas you'd just have to
change your set-top box for a Pioneer or whichever of the others that
can handle it.


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DAB sounds worse than Freeview, digital satellite, cable, broadband
internet and FM

"DAB sounds worse than FM" wrote in message
news:1ge8c.210$%[email protected]
http://media.guardian.co.uk/broadcas...176271,00.html

Predictions a

Freeview from 3m now to 10m by 2007
Sky from 7.2m now to 8.9m by 2007
87% will have digital TV by the end of 2007, from ~50% now

15.2m (59% of households) will have digital TV by the end of 2004
Freeview will be in 4.8m homes by end of 2004

But follow the money, BSkyB will be turning over in excess of £1b in profit
by then.

Az.

"DAB sounds worse than FM" wrote in message
news:jAe8c.213$%[email protected]

That and the fact that new TVs will have DVB-T receivers in them.

Has something changed to make that compulsory?

Up till now all the manufacturers have shown a remarkable reluctance to
include DVB tuners in the TVs - especially the upmarket lifestyle models -
where it wouldn't touch their margins - and customers would appreciate as
many gizmos as possible.

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In article jAe8c.213$%[email protected],
"DAB sounds worse than FM" wrote:

That and the fact that new TVs will have DVB-T receivers in them.

Which new TVs?

Up till now all the manufacturers have shown a remarkable reluctance to
include DVB tuners in the TVs

Sony seem to sell loads

Worked out a while ago 50% of IDTVs are Sony