Depends on what you call useful. I have found some of the programmes on the BBC1 Variants to be really interesting. They are also good if you want a more detailed look at a news story in, say, Wales, which the BBC main news only covers briefly.
Being an analogue customer at home (watch digital at parents) I thinkthat it's about time ntl: decided to make us all an offer. Something along the line of cut-price subscription for less channels or to upgrade to Digital. They could survey all their analogue customers to see which channels thay actually wanted.
For those who do not want to upgrade to digital (if they can. Let's not forget I live in LE3!!) because they only watch, say, Sky Sports, offer them an icentive to upgrade. However the icentive would need to be fairly good. On-month free just wouldn't do it.
For those stuck on analogue, we should be givien the chance to create our own tv packs based on the channels we want to watch. on the present package structure, I have to subscrive to the full collection (£13) to get the channels I want to watch (1 in each tv pack). If I was given the chance to subscribe to 3 channelsfor £5, then that is an offer I would take up.
After ntl: have done both these things, they could then look at which channels are watched on analogue and then clear out the ones that arn't. I'm sure some (like SET) could be cleard out now, as the vast majority of viewers will be in digital areas.
Does all that make sense. I get the feeling i;ve waffled on abit, but do you get my point?
