- How do I Receive Digital TV?

Whether you receive your existing TV services by satellite, cable, broadband or terrestrial (with an aerial), the chances are you can change to digital whenever you want to.

Digital TV through an aerial (digital terrestrial television - DTT)

Terrestrial TV aerial

Digital TV can be received using a normal rooftop TV aerial. You will need a set-top box to go with your existing TV set, or you can buy a new digital TV set which is designed to pick up the new digital signals.

About three-quarters of homes in the UK with a rooftop aerial should be able to receive digital TV, although in a sizeable minority of cases a new aerial will be required. This will be either because digital signals are best-received from a different transmitter, the digital channels are outside the band of channels the aerial was designed for, or because the aerial and the downlead are in poor condition. Very often in these cases an aerial which has seen long service can pick up a reasonably acceptable analogue signal but will not work with digital.