26m TVs need to be switched to digital
Some 26 million TV sets need to be converted or replaced before 2012.
A study by the National Audit Office into the digital switchover reveals the size of the problem – but also found 85 per cent of households had switched from analogue.
However, 31 per cent of people do not understand they will need equipment to keep watching TV, with those in ethnic minorities and non-English speaking groups especially unaware.
Furthermore, in the first seven months of 2007, 45 per cent of all TVs sold were still analogue.
