Digital TV is just a different way of sending TV pictures and sounds to your home. Analogue sends TV signals through the airwaves only, but digital TV compresses the signal and sends it in a number of ways - satellite, cable, phone line, etc - with no interference. Digital TV is also a catch-all word for both the equipment you need to receive the digital signal and the content you receive, in terms of digital TV packages.
Cable TV
Looking for the best digital TV service online can often be a tricky experience. The comparison sites, (although great at finding you utilities deals!), are often not well set up to provide clear advice on digital TV services. Digital TV services vary hugely - for example Sky alone have over 8,000 package combinations - and the comparison sites struggle to show like-with-like comparisons. At Simplifydigital ( as our name suggests), we specialize in making the complicated world of digital TV services, simple. Our experts over the phone and our unique "smart search" function on our website specialise in finding you the very best digital TV deals from all the UK providers including: Sky, Virgin Media, TopUpTV, Tiscali, Setanta, BT and Freeview.
Pretty soon we are all going to have to have digital TV (on every TV set in the house). This is because the Government has already started switching off the analogue TV signal in certain regions which means that old analogue TV sets will no longer work. Analogue TV will be turned off completely by 2012.
Digital switchover in your area
By telling us your postcode, we can work out when your area will be affected by the digital TV switchover. Digital TV was first switched on in Whitehaven, Cumbria in 2007, and the digital switchover timetable ends in Ulster, Tyne and Tees in 2012.
Don't forget, our digital experts are on the phone to answer any questions you have too!
Digital TV providers is something we know about!
Over 20 million homes in the UK already have digital TV and the number increases daily as the switch-off of the analogue TV signal draws ever closer. As a result, competition is intense and there are a growing number of digital TV providers offering excellent value digital TV services into the home. These digital TV providers broadly split into three groups: satellite digital TV providers (e.g. Sky) ; cable digital TV providers (e.g Virgin Media); terrestrial digital TV providers (e.g. Freesat); and internet delivered digital TV providers.