Thread: UK TV GOLD lost from Analogue service
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Old 23-02-2009, 20:23   #11
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Re: UK TV GOLD lost from Analogue service
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Originally Posted by nialli View Post
I've often wondered how Sky managed to do this so quickly. Did Sky analogue customers get free digital boxes?
If NTL and Telewest had taken the same draconian (but technically astute) measures, cable TV could have been a genuine force rather than a bandwidth-constrained service struggling to accommodate new channels.
Virgin Media is in a different position in relation to its options to switch off analogue. Unfortunately, VM inherited some franchises that had not been laying the necessary fibre optic cabling to enable the switchover to digital. Accordingly, if they just pulled the plug, those with the analogue only option would have no service.

The alternative of upgrading these areas is very expensive, but I am curious to know why VM now seem to have delayed the analogue switchoff. Maybe they are going to upgrade these remaining areas after all. Good news for those subscribers, but bad for those already receiving digital and waiting for HD. Unless of course the new V+ box permits more HD services.
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