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Originally Posted by OLD BOY
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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Upstream and downstream broadband sits either side of the analogue frequencies. Strictly speaking you could sort of blame broadband limits on analogue tv too as the broadband until recently used a very small amount of the bandwidth. But as downstream broadband has/is receiving a generous dollop of redeployed bandwidth (from somewhere, maybe that was pinched from analogue) it's about time DTV pinched some off analogue. GOLD will be used for something either (a) broadband (b) ITV HD or some other HD channel (c) VOD content (d) some kind of bandwidth shuffle amounting to either (a),(b) or (c).