Is a digital shower necessary

[bluedoughboy]

Just moved into a place with a really weak shower. The boiler is two or three years old - Viessman Vitodens 100. I assumed it was a combi boiler (in these turbulent times we had to put an offer on the house after one short viewing) but it feeds a hot water tank upstairs, it's run on a Potterton timer that I remember my parents having in the mid-eighties.
Anyway - the shower is rubbish. I called a fella who fitted a combi boiler at my Ma's place to come round and service the boiler and to have a measure up for fitting a shower pump. I was at work when he came round and the Mrs called me to say he'd been and said the best option for us was to fit a digital shower and we'd be looking at around a thousand to get it done. The alternative, he told he, would involve retiling etc - I'm assuming he meant in fitting an electric shower or something similar.
In my limited plumbing brain and the twelve minutes of research I've done it doesn't sound right. I assumed that fitting a shower pump would be easy enough and work fine. What are people's thoughts on this please?

 

[townfanjon]

Digital showers are fantastic and generally a lot faster to fit than rigging up a pump so labour will be cheaper , a grand ish must be for the newer types / styles of shower , you can still buy the older types .

 

[king of pipes]

Depending on the type of digital shower it seems reasonable I've fitted a few over the last year or so all performing well . Kop