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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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Forgive me, but I can't see why VM won't split the areas so they have only pure digital and pure analogue areas. At the moment, they have pure analogue areas and analogue+digital areas - kick those in analogue+digital areas who won't go digital, turn off the analogue in those areas and as if by magic they'll have pure digital areas! As a bonus, they'll then be able to use the old analogue equipment, from the newly pure digital areas, as spares for the pure analogue areas - because I doubt that any of it is still being manufactured.
However, if it was that simple they'd have done it by now. That or they're a bunch of idiots...
Sam