With the big switchover less than four years away, latest Ofcom figures reveal that 68 percent of households in the UK watch digital telly.

According to the findings, 60 million sets in the UK get their signals from either Freeview, digital cable or Sky.

The report forecasted that so far this year seven million digital TVs were bought this year as people get ready for the analogue switch-off which started this year in the border region between England and Scotland.

Sky topped the the number of digital subscribers with 8.3 million households sporting a dish on the side of their house, increasing 332,000 over the year. Next up is Virgin with 3.5 million subscribers.

However, these figures are dwarfed by Freeview, who don't pay anything on top of the licence fee. Thirty million set-top boxes, PVRs and integrated digital televisions have been sold since the service launched in 2002.

Ahead of the BBC/ITV launch of its Freesat service in May, some 720,0000 homes were receiving free satellite services by the end of March 2008.

Sky+ is by far the most popular pay TV PVR with 3.4 million subscribers, while Virgin V+ offering grabbed 364,200 subscribers.

More information on the digital television figures can be found at the Ofcom website.