subject: What you can watch on digital TV, UK? [print this page] What you can watch on digital TV, UK? What you can watch on digital TV, UK?
The digital TV switchover could be one of the best things that happened in UK with relation to affordable entertainment especially through your television set. Digital TV is an enhanced form of transmission of TV signals which are converted into computerized tiny pieces of information and compressed. The digital signals are then sent across to your TV set through any of the following connections viz. satellite dish, cable, aerial or a broadband one. These signals are received on to a set top box which comprises of a decoder to covert them into pictures and sound before being aired through your television.
This technology feature offers more and more TV content and programmes to be aired through a single connection. This implies viewers have a wide array of programmes to choose from which have be well organized and offered by digital TV providers through TV packs. At the same time, depending upon the demand and popularity of programmes, TV providers have also gone ahead and introduced special TV channels.
Sky TV UK offers its customers with six TV packs viz. Children, Knowledge, Style and Living, Music, News and Events and Variety pack. At the same time, they offer Sky Movies and Sky Sports as two different packs. The customers can go for any one or more TV packs or all the six TV packs with the option of choosing both Sky special packs. The popular channels such as ESPN, MUTVM Chelsea TV, MGM HD, Disney Cinemagic are provided as extra channels which can be always added to your TV package.
In similar manner, you have Virgin Media offering various TV packages TV Size M+ - 65 channels, TV Size L 100 channels, TV Size XL 160 channels to its customers. BT Vision TV offers 4 TV packs viz. Vision Kids, Vision Film Club, Vision Sport and Vision Music, along with Sky Sports 1, Sky Sports 2 and a special pack on Box Office Films.
Over and above this, digital TV providers are known to offer on demand services which have gain unprecedented popularity. The reason for the same being people who have different work schedules get left out on watching some popular programmes and wish to catch up on them. These viewers can make use of on demand services to catch up on the missed programmes. Apart from catching up on missed programmes, you can always check out the wide range of TV content such as movies, sports content and documentary and so on. Sky offers its on demand service through Sky Anytime and Sky Anytime Plus, Virgin Media TV on Demand service such as Catch up TV, Music and Movies on Demand, Music and Movies on Demand and so on. BT Vision is extremely popular for its on demand services which charge low rates for its on demand programmes.
With so much to watch on digital TV, it makes sense to switchover to digital TV as soon as possible and to enjoy watching your preferred and quality entertainment at affordable costs.
