The Communications Market: Digital Progress Report for the second quarter of 2008 shows that 840,000 homes were using free satellite - from BSkyB, BBC/ITV or other retailers - on their main television set.
Since the report was published, a further 60,000 Freesat sets have been sold, taking the total beyond 900,000.
Key digital television trends for the second quarter of 2008 include:
The total number of households with DTT reached 16.7 million in the second quarter of 2008.
More than 2 million DTT devices were sold in the second quarter of this year. Integrated Digital Televisions (IDTV) accounted for almost two-thirds (1.4 million units) of all DTT sales, with IDTV sales up by 54 per cent on the year.
The total number of secondary sets connected to DTT stood at 14.7m compared to 9.7m on primary sets. This means that 60 per cent of DTT devices are now on secondary sets.
BSkyB grew its UK and Ireland subscriber base by 92,000 to 8.9 million households, an increase of 398,000 over the past 12 months.
By the end of the second quarter of 2008, 840,000 households were using free-to-view services on their main set - an increase of around 120,000 on the previous quarter.
Of the 39,018 BBC/ITV freesat service sold by the end of the second quarter of this year, more than half (23, 854) were high-definition (HD) units.
Virgin Media now has over 3.5m cable subscribers in total, up by almost 24,000 in the second quarter of this year.
An additional 60,700 cable viewers subscribed to Virgin Media's digital video recorder service known as V+ during the quarter, bringing the total number of users to 424,900. This service can also be used with HD TV set.
Almost half of Virgin Media customers (48 per cent) were using its video on demand service (VoD). In total, there were 38 million VoD views over the period, up by over 90 per cent on the year.
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