Because I do a lot of recording on the disk and I'm still using an ordinary video recorder to record analogue programmes from the aerial when programmes clash. Also because I find an 80 gig disk not large enough frankly. It sounds a lot, but isn't really. Besides, as I said, analogue gives better sound quality on our TV. I often find when I've recorded say, a drama or a film from a digital channel onto the hard drive, the resulting sound (of the dialogue) is far too low. We're getting old and my hubby is a bit deaf now, so he finds it very hard to hear what is going on sometimes!
Just before our area goes digital atogether, I'm planning to get a new TV with Freeview built in and a PVR with a far larger hard drive and perhaps a DVD recorder/player built in. We've already up-graded the aerial, so, depending on how good the reception is on Freeview when I've finished, I'll probably dispense with Virgin's TV service altogether and just have Freeview. There is really only one channel outside of Freeview that we watch with any regularity anyway; the rest we think is rubbish. Frankly, I think as time goes on, more and more 'Paid For' channels will go over to Freeview anyway. If you look at some of the surveys on folks' TV viewing habits, more of them have Freeview than paid-for services now, so for the advertisers' sakes alone, I think more TV companies will realise Freeview is the way forward. After all, why
should customers pay twice for their TV viewing? The BBC License fee and
again for digital channels?
