Thread: UK TV GOLD lost from Analogue service
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Old 26-02-2009, 19:24   #14
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Re: UK TV GOLD lost from Analogue service
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Originally Posted by sammyjayuk View Post
I don't understand why analogue wasn't switched off in the digital areas, though. The only people it would have affected would have been the analogue hangers-on - those with the option to go digital but refusing too - and why should anyone care about them?

Areas not capable of digital would have just carried on as normal until they could be upgraded, if ever.

But no, for some reason the cablecos decided that a tiny, tiny number of people had the right to choose to severely cripple and hinder the development of the services of over 3 million people!

Sam
It may be that they can only enhance the digital services when all the analogue network is switched off.

The techies on here may prove me wrong on that point, however.

Alternatively, the reason may be that a partial switchoff would not make new channels on the digital service viable. I shouldn't think VM would want a fragmented digital service anyway. They are trying to harmonise so that every region gets the same service.
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