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FREEVIEW FACTS
Sometimes it’s just good to be ‘in the know’. The digital TV landscape is pretty exciting, and we thought it was about time we shared a few stats so you can impress friends with your knowledge of digital TV facts and figures.
- 20+: the number of new channels added to our free channel line-up since launch, taking us to over 40 (including More4, E4, ITV2, Film4, BBC3). Download the Freeview channel guide (PDF, 1.5 MB) to see the full line up.
- 15 million: total sales since Freeview’s launch in 2002 – that’s pretty staggering in four years!
- 9 million: the number of households that Freeview is now estimated to be in.
- 31 million: that's the number of analogue recording devices in the UK so if you are looking to go digital and get all the recording benefits of a VCR (plus much, much more), a digital TV recorder could be just the ticket.
- 90,000 digital TV recorders sold in the last quarter of 2006, that’s double the amount sold in the same period the previous year.
- 2.4: the number of TV sets in the average home. Watching TV is no longer just confined to the living room. Freeview gives you even more great reasons to enjoy digital TV in the bedroom or the kitchen.
- 25%: according to a recent report,* nearly a quarter of the people living in the UK wrongly thought you needed a new TV to go digital when in fact it can be as simple as a one off cost for a digital box or a digital TV recorder.
- 1 million tonnes: the amount of waste created in the UK each year from electrical goods - enough to fill 400 Olympic-sized swimming pools. If you are replacing an old TV or VCR, look into recycling or safe disposal as outlined on the Recycle Now website.
*Yougov for uSwitch
