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greens

28-04-2005 15:29

Home & Leisure / Discovery Channels On Anologue TV

I pay for the family pack on NTL anologue and at 4pm every day, the Home and Leisure channel automatically switches to Discovery channel. Is this right and should it happen? :confused:

Lew	28-04-2005 15:43

Re: Home & Leisure / Discovery Channels On Anologue TV

This is the correct behaviour for the analogue versions of Discovery and H&L.

greens

28-04-2005 16:38

Re: Home & Leisure / Discovery Channels On Anologue TV

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Originally Posted by Lew

This is the correct behaviour for the analogue versions of Discovery and H&L.

Why is this and is there any way I can overide it (other than switching to digital)???

paulyoung666

28-04-2005 16:43

Re: Home & Leisure / Discovery Channels On Anologue TV

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Originally Posted by greens

Why is this and is there any way I can overide it (other than switching to digital)???

because that is what you pay for maybe :dozey: , and no there is no way of overiding it ;) , why not go for digital :)

greens

28-04-2005 17:00

Re: Home & Leisure / Discovery Channels On Anologue TV

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Originally Posted by paulyoung666

because that is what you pay for maybe :dozey: , and no there is no way of overiding it ;) , why not go for digital :)

As I see it, I pay for the family pack which includes Discovery and H&L. But actually it doesn't, it only includes part of the scheduling for both channels :mad: Not fair, me thinks and not what it says on the NTL website!!!

homealone

28-04-2005 17:37

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Originally Posted by greens

discovery & H&L are not the only 'timeshare' channels

trouble/bravo
travel/M&M are others - Challenge TV & Paramount Comedy, as well, but I can't remember what they share with.

also UK Gold Documentary just goes off air at 1600

All I can say is that it has always been the case, but I agree the advertising does not make this clear. :(

greens

28-04-2005 18:28

Re: Home & Leisure / Discovery Channels On Anologue TV

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Originally Posted by homealone

So, who or what is responsible for this 'timeshare' ??? Could NTL give me both channels or is it because I am on anologue and its not possible?? :confused:

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Originally Posted by homealone

All I can say is that it has always been the case, but I agree the advertising does not make this clear. :(

What do you think Trading Standards would make of this??? I think its misleading :(

paulyoung666

28-04-2005 18:53

Re: Home & Leisure / Discovery Channels On Anologue TV

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Originally Posted by greens

What do you think Trading Standards would make of this??? I think its misleading :(

go for it , let us know what they say :tu:

homealone

28-04-2005 18:54

Re: Home & Leisure / Discovery Channels On Anologue TV

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Originally Posted by greens

So, who or what is responsible for this 'timeshare' ??? Could NTL give me both channels or is it because I am on anologue and its not possible?? :confused:

What do you think Trading Standards would make of this??? I think its misleading :(

NTL have only so much available bandwidth and analogue channels take up more than digital, so they spread the load by the 'timeshare' method. (IIRC one analogue channel takes 8x more bandwidth than one digital channel)

Don't know about trading standards - why not give it a go, if it gets NTL to change the way they describe the availability of channels on analogue, it can only be a good thing :tu:

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