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Originally Posted by Proppinupthebar
Sky changed satellites for their switch from analogue to digital, Astra 1 to Astra2. Their services were available from both sats for quite a while.
The cost to ntl in terms of new stb's to move from analogue to digital will be high.
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I'm sure the cost implications of the stb changes, plus all the other headend changes indictated by Escapee, put the dumping of analogue well down ntl's priority list. The only reason to change would be if Sky start to carry so many more desirable channels that ntl cannot possibly sqeeze into the existing cable, or extra other services like broadband need to expand and take more bandwidth. If ntl's market share / customer base shows sign of decline as it can't keep up with demand, the priorities would change, and analogue might become a casualty of that. For the moment analogue no doubt provides an important part of ntl's finances, and I'm sure they will wish to keep it that way.
Personally speaking, a large number of the existing digi channels are junk. Ntl could ditch many of those to make space for others if needed.