Charles, New Zealand is in the process of switching to digitally transmitted HD television, both terrestrial and satellite.
I have both, because I was once a Sky customer, and the lounge TV and the STB is on satellite.
Freeview, as it is called here, use the Sky satellite and the old terrestrial transmission system.
The bedroom TV is an old CRT set on a terrestrial aerial. Soon useless without another STB.
STBs are either one or t'other, and mine is satellite.
Satellite digital signals are erratic in heavy rain. I'm told that the terrestrial signals are, too. Bloody pathetic.
All I want is a machine that will do what a cheap VCR did twenty years ago. Too much to ask, obviously. Double bloody pathetic.
Chris.