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Originally Posted by Media Boy
Next Wednesday night will see Trouble + 1 being axe on Virgin Channel 160 (Also on Sky) to make way for Living 2 + 1 to launch on Virgin and Sky.
Info from my V+ Box.
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I don't watch Trouble much but I must admit I'm surprised that they have dropped Trouble +1 in favour of Living2 +1 on Virgin Media and on Sky. Both channels are owned by VM.
I presume that Living2 +1 will move to channel 113 on VM to be with it siblings (maybe by 08:00 today). It's still greyed out on channel 160 on my V Box.
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Originally Posted by sherer
don't forget there is the governement digital switch over project, not sure what the end date is for that but I thought it was 2012, could be wrong. Once that has finished there won't be an analogue signal for VM to provide.
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Correct me if I'm wrong but it is my understanding that all analogue signals these days, terrestrial or cable, are sourced from the digital signals so an analogue signal could still be provided after the official analogue cutoff. However, I don't see this happening after 2012 on terrestrial and probably not from 2010 on Virgin Media cable. On terrestrial, the frequencies used to broadcast analogue TV will have been reallocated to digital TV and other services. On cable, the bandwidth used for analogue will have been reallocated to digital TV, TVoD, Interactive and Broadband. What will happen in areas with old, expensive to upgrade equipment is uncertain.