{"id":1065,"date":"2005-03-30T11:24:02","date_gmt":"2005-03-30T11:24:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/2005\/03\/60_digital\/"},"modified":"2005-03-30T11:24:02","modified_gmt":"2005-03-30T11:24:02","slug":"60_digital","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/2005\/03\/60_digital\/","title":{"rendered":"60% Digital"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ofcom have today reported<\/a> that digital TV has reached nearly 60% penetration.
\nIn the last quarter:
\nSky has grown by around 2.5%
\nFreeview’s grown by 17.3%
\nCable’s gown by 0.5%
\nPretty obviously, Freeview’s driving this forward. And there’s still not a real free-to-view satellite option since there’s no way of getting cards to watch ITV, C4 or Five if you’re not a Sky subscriber.
\nIn the meantime, the cheapest TV at Argos with integrated Freeview is £269<\/a> in a 28″ widescreen TV. No television smaller than this includes an integrated digital decoder. So if you don’t want something as big as a 28″ telly, you have to get a separate box if you shop at Argos.
\nThe same is true at Dixons where they’re called “interactive digital TVs”. And at Currys the cheapest set with integrated features is £323.
\nUnbeatable<\/a> wasn’t much help either.
\nIndeed I’ve not been able to find any televisions less than 28″ that have a Freeview adapter built in. All those smaller sets and portables will be obselete in less than five years in some places, unless they have a set-top box added to them. Manufacturers really need to wake up to this fact because it makes a mockery of any proposed switch-off that I can’t replace a portable TV at the moment with something that’s even the smallest bit futureproof.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Ofcom have today reported that digital TV has reached nearly 60% penetration. In the last quarter: Sky has grown by around 2.5% Freeview’s grown by 17.3% Cable’s gown by 0.5% Pretty obviously, Freeview’s driving this forward. And there’s still not a real free-to-view satellite option since there’s no way of getting cards to watch ITV, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1065"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1065"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1065\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1065"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1065"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1065"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}