With just a one off payment for a digibox or digital TV or digital TV recorder you can enjoy over 48 television channels together with well over 20 digital radio stations.

Combine this with improved picture and sound quality plus a host of interactive red button features and you’ll wonder why you never switched to Freeview sooner !

No subscription needed, so buy your Freeview+ recorder box with its Freeview+ logo, plug it in, kick off your shoes and sit back and enjoy free digital TV. The digital TV recorder and the digital TV tuner are combined in one box so say goodbye to trailing cables cluttering up your living room or bedroom.

A Freeview+ recorder will also let you pause, record and rewind live TV. You can even record a whole series with one touch of a button. You control your own TV viewing experience !

To be called Freeview+ and bear the logo players must include the following features :

* At least 8 Day Electronic Programme Guide (EPG)
* Series Link (one timer to record whole series)
* Record split programmes as one programme
* Offer to record related programme
* Record alternative showing if there is a time conflict
* Schedule changes updated in standby (e.g. scheduled recording starting early)
* Accurate recording (equivalent to PDC – programmes are recorded based on signals from the broadcaster rather than scheduled time) – since this is based on signals from the broadcaster, the broadcaster can prevent recording by sending nonsense signals as a form of copy protection, as already happens on music channels. This can be circumvented by specifying a timer recording instead of a programme recording or by routing the player through a traditional VHS recorder.

The final stage of digital TV switchover in north east Wales completed on 25th November, extending digital terrestrial television (Freeview) coverage to all households served by the Moel y Parc transmitter group. All terrestrial TV signals were turned off shortly after midnight and a team of engineers worked through the night on the switch to all-digital TV services. Analogue services will remain switched off permanently, allowing new Freeview channels to be broadcast from 22 local relay transmitters serving areas such as Penmaen Rhos and Llangollen for the first time.

The Granada TV region switchover started on 4th November when BBC2 was switched off.
The rest of the analogue channels – BBC One, ITV1, Channel 4 and Five – will be permanently switched off on 2nd December. At the same time the Freeview signals will be boosted allowing around 500,000 more viewers access to the Freeview platform.