You can get five free channels - four are Swedish public service and one is commercial with special license. As an owner of a TV set, everyone (are supposed to) pay a yearly license which covers the public service. You can get a digital TV box for around 500 SEK, free from subscription. If you want to subscribe, you can get the actual box for 1 SEK and monthly pay somewhere from 150 SEK and upwards depending on how many channels you want.
The biggest scam about digital TV is that every device needs its own box, or you need to buy a
very expensive box that can handle more than one device at the same time. You switch channels on the digital box, not the TV. I'm not quite sure why it is done in this fashion, other than the manufacturers get to sell more hardware. In my world, a digital receiver should act like a miniature cable box, converting the digital channels you have rights to see into analog signals on a private cable net. Then you could connect all your TVs, VCRs and whatever to that box. Maybe they're scared that neighbours and apartment buildings would only get one box and then several families could share the same subscription? My brother has experimented with getting a couple of digital receivers, and set them up to output a RF signal from one channel each, to build a private cable net, but he has problems to find receivers that output a good RF signal.
In the summer cottage, my parents will install a digital receiver. We already have rather poor reception out there, and when they switch to digital, I've heard that either you get a crisp picture or nothing, there is no blurry, noisy inbetween. We'll see if the antenna w/ amplifier will do the task.
I think that no matter how hard someone tries to be perfect - they'll never have a perfect mentality as long as their actions require surgery.
Heh. Well said.